American Banker
| Type | Online service |
|---|---|
| Format | Online only; formerly a Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Observer Capital |
| Editor |
Marc Hochstein Editor in Chief Richard Melville Group Editorial Director, Banking |
| Founded | 1836 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Circulation | 36,502 (June 2011) |
| ISSN | 0002-7561 |
| Website | www |
American Banker is a daily trade newspaper and website covering the financial services industry. Founded in 1836 and based in New York, American Banker has approximately 50 reporters and editors in six U.S. cities who monitor developments and breaking news affecting banks.
Throughout its history, the newspaper has won praise for its coverage of important policy issues. In the 1980s, American Banker won two Gerald Loeb Awards and the George Polk Award for its coverage of two of the decade's major stories: The Chrysler bailout and the collapse of Penn Square Bank. Subsequently, the newspaper was recognized for its coverage of the passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, congressional debates surrounding regulation of government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the near-constant wave of mergers and acquisitions that affect banks.
Traditionally published as a five-day-a-week print daily, halted its print edition in January 2016, citing the growth of its web edition. AmericanBanker.com receives more than 1 million page views per month, and is updated continuously.Marc Hochstein, previously Executive Editor of American Banker, was named Editor in Chief in August 2014, succeeding Neil Weinberg. Other former editors of American Banker include Barbara A. Rehm, who was editor in chief from 2008 to 2010, and David Longobardi, who was editor in chief from 1999 to 2009, when he was named Chief Content Officer of SourceMedia Inc., the business media company that had owned American Banker since 2004. Edwin A. Finn topped the masthead in 1990–92. and Phil Roosevelt from 1995 to 1999. As of May 2012, Finn was editor and president and Roosevelt was deputy managing editor of Barron's.
The newspaper also sponsors several banking industry conferences and the Most Powerful Women in Banking awards dinner in New York. It awards the Banker of the Year and other Best in Banking honors annually in a special edition. The annual Banker of the Year awards dinner that had been an American Banker tradition on and off since the early 1990s was halted in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008–9.
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