Sean Sposito's specialty is mining banking data to develop stories, often on payment cards and networks. Before joining American Banker in New York, Sean was a year-long intern at The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, where he covered residential and commercial real estate and worked on computer-assisted reporting projects. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.), The Arkansas Democrat Gazette and the Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri). He is also a former data analyst at the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting.

Crowdfunding Startups Pose New Competition to Commercial Lenders
May 16, 2013 At least two startups who demoed at Finovate this week are trying to step in between banks and commercial borrowers in the...

The Buzz at Finovate: New Security Tech
May 15, 2013 In a sign of the times, information security and authentication vendors dominate a fintech conference.

GoBank to Go Live on the Fourth of July
May 14, 2013 Green Dot’s aptly named mobile consumer checking account, GoBank, is leaving beta this summer and launching to a general...

Green Dot's Steve Streit Sounds Off on Cyber Heist
May 14, 2013 When international criminals lifted $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks using stolen prepaid card data , Green Dot's...

Banno Launches Data-Analytics Marketing Feature
May 14, 2013 The Kernel service tailors online ads to bank customers.

Security Could Have Prevented $45 Million Bank Heist
May 10, 2013 Better security deployed by the card processors, the banks and the ATM operators could have detected and thwarted the complex...

User Interface Design Key to Loyalty: Forrester
May 2, 2013 For bankers, a well-designed customer interface is worth the money, according to a recent Forrester report.

HSBC Adds Online Banking Security for Retail Customers
May 1, 2013 HSBC Bermuda is giving its retail banking customers security devices that will display one-time passwords for online banking,...

Future DDoS Attacks: Targeted and Mobile-Driven
April 30, 2013 Eight months of banks being under steady, near-constant attack have taught observers a thing or two about what banks can...

Banks Should Act More Like Apple: Cap One's Innovation Chief
April 25, 2013 Mark Jamison of Capital One envisions a future in which financial services companies mimic Apple and other tech giants,...