American Banker hires Vigna as managing editor

American Banker has hired longtime business journalist Paul Vigna to be its managing editor.

He has been with Harding Loevner LP for the last two-and-a-half years as a senior investment writer and editor.

Before that, Vigna spent more than 25 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. He had been covering bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and had been covering the equities market for both the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires since 1997.

He has written four books, including “The Age of Cryptocurrency” and “The Truth Machine,” both with Michael J. Casey, and “Guts.” His latest book, published last year, is “The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin.”

He has been featured in the documentaries “Banking on Bitcoin” and “Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It.”

Vigna previously worked at the Verona-Cedar Grove Times in New Jersey and is a graduate of Fairfield University.