American Banker Podcast

Episode

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  Crypto banks are safer than insured banks: Bitgo's CEO 07.07.2026 25mnt

  The crypto companies getting trust charters hold 100% reserves and thus are lower risk than traditional banks that hold fractional reserves, Mike Belshe argues.
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  Why big banks bet on Besu 09.06.2026 22mnt

  Citi, DTCC and others are quietly using Hyperledger Besu as neutral, enterprise-grade rails for tokenized deposits and collateral. Daniela Barbosa, general manager of decentralized technologies at the Linux Foundation, explains why.
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  What's life like after crypto firms get trust bank charters? 26.05.2026 15mnt

  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved several national trust bank charters for crypto companies. Fabian Dori, head of asset management at Sygnum Bank, a digital asset bank based in Zurich that has operated as a crypto bank for more than six years, shared what happens after the charter.
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  'Credit access is absolutely a problem': Upstart's Paul Gu 12.05.2026 27mnt

  The company's new CEO, and long-time chief technology officer, shares his views on why some banks are stuck in old ways of determining creditworthiness, how Upstart has been modifying its underwriting models and the objections people sometimes have to AI-based lending.
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  Is AI the way to get credit to the underbanked? 28.04.2026 22mnt

  Rodney Hood, former acting Comptroller of the Currency and former chair of the National Credit Union Administration, says the credit scoring system is broken and AI can fix it.  
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  What a 'moral architecture' for AI in banking would look like 14.04.2026 29mnt

  Surjit Chana, a board member of Beneficial State Bank, a Harvard Fellow and a tech committee member of the Global Alliance for Banking Values, explains why there's a need for what he calls a moral architecture for AI
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  Solana 101: What it is and why some banks use it 31.03.2026 24mnt

  JPMorganChase, Citi, Bank of America and Anchorage Digital are among the banks that are using or planning to work with the Solana distributed ledger and network. Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine explains how it works.
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  Grasshopper's taking AI beyond the 'confident intern' stage 17.03.2026 22mnt

  Peter Chapman, chief technology officer at Grasshopper Bank, initially saw AI as "the best intern that you could ever have." Today the technology is taking on more advanced work at the bank.
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  How Clearview FCU's CIO gets employees to use and trust AI 02.03.2026 18mnt

  "AI may not take your job, but somebody who knows AI will," says Raymond George, CIO of Clearview Federal Credit Union.  
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  What is Ethereum and why should you care? Paul Brody at EY 17.02.2026 19mnt

  JPMorganChase, Citi, Vantage Bank and Custodia Bank have all chosen Ethereum as the underpinning for blockchain projects such as tokenized deposits. The chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance explains its appeal.
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  Thread Bank's Chris Black sees opening in bank charter boom 03.02.2026 23mnt

  Some traditional bankers are unsettled by the wave of crypto and fintech banks getting bank charters. This Nashville bank CEO sees opportunity.
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  How banks can reap revenue from AI: Accenture's Mike Abbott 20.01.2026 25mnt

  The company's recently released 2026 trends report is about "moving and changing the narrative from being Eeyores to being Tiggers," Abbott said in the latest American Banker podcast.
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  'Optimism is a moral duty': Paul Achleitner 30.12.2025 18mnt

  The former Deutsche Bank chair and Goldman Sachs partner shares some of the leadership principles in his new book.
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  From day-trading bar mitzvah cash to founding Hiro: Ethan Bloch 16.12.2025

  The founder of Digit explains how he got into fintech and why he built an AI-meets-personal-finance app that launched in October. 
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  From day-trading bar mitzvah cash to founding Hiro: Ethan Bloch 16.12.2025 24mnt

  The founder of Digit explains how he got into fintech and why he built an AI-meets-personal-finance app that launched in November.
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  'Policy leaders are being shown a rosier picture': Ludwig 02.12.2025 24mnt

  Former controller of the currency Eugene Ludwig has written a book called The Mismeasurement of America that lays out the shortcomings of the standard economic data that U.S. government and businesses use to make decisions, and how this data obscures the truth about how low-income Americans are actually faring.
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  'The household balance sheet is fragile': Sarah Biller 18.11.2025 24mnt

  The co-founder of Fintech Sandbox says fintech entrepreneurs will figure out how to help Americans struggling with economic stressors.
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  Anchorage COO is a fan of the Fed's 'skinny' master accounts 04.11.2025 21mnt

  Rachel Anderika, chief operating officer at Anchorage Digital Bank, sees the Federal Reserve's proposal to give crypto companies limited access to its payment rails as "a really great signal to the market."
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  'Crypto will always be a target for scammers': Amanda Fischer 21.10.2025 21mnt

  Amanda Fischer, is policy director and chief operating officer at Better Markets and former chief of staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission has some concerns about stablecoins.
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  How banks can mitigate AI workslop and errors 07.10.2025 21mnt

  The former banker Bradley Leimer now advises financial institutions on AI projects, and shared some of his tips for achieving accurate results and a return on AI investments.