American Banker Podcast

Miller Whitehouse-Levine, CEO of the Solana Policy Institute and advocate for Solana and decentralized networks. He explains why Solana scales differently than Ethereum. He describes Solana’s shared cryptographic clock and tradeoffs between throughput and validator requirements. He highlights real-world bank use cases, stablecoin suitability, interoperability, regulatory and technical considerations.

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.

"AI may not take your job, but somebody who knows AI will," says Raymond George, CIO of Clearview Federal Credit Union.

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.

Some traditional bankers are unsettled by the wave of crypto and fintech banks getting bank charters. This Nashville bank CEO sees opportunity.

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.

In this conversation, Paul Achleitner, former chairman of Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs partner, shares insights from his leadership book. He suggests that optimism is crucial for progress and must be coupled with action. Paul emphasizes learning from past crises instead of hypothetical scenarios and the importance of integrity in leadership. He also discusses the delicate balance between visionary and operational leadership, advocating for modest yet genuine corporate values, and the need for companies to build legitimacy in the era of misinformation.

The founder of Digit explains how he got into fintech and why he built an AI-meets-personal-finance app that launched in November.

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.

The co-founder of Fintech Sandbox says fintech entrepreneurs will figure out how to help Americans struggling with economic stressors.