New technologies came slowly to the banking industry, but change is now coming faster and faster. The question is, who will benefit? Consider the check, a banking mainstay introduced shortly after the Civil War. For more than a century, checks were processed by hand. When a check was received, a clerk, sometimes wearing a green […]
William Serrin
William Serrin teaches journalism at New York University. He was the longtime labor writer for The New York Times. He is the author, most recently, of Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America.

