
Sean Sposito
Sean Sposito is a freelance writer.

Sean Sposito is a freelance writer.
Live Oak Bancshares is quickly expanding both sides of its business announcing a partnership with Fidelity that will give its namesake SBA lender access to fresh investment advisor borrowers, and a $9 million round for its cloud-computing tech offshoot, nCino.
At this year's Mobile Banking and Commerce Summit in Miami, many attendees recognized that mobile banking has moved from the abstract to reality but worried about how to make money on their tech investments and how to keep transactions secure.
Diebold announced Thursday that it has named Andy W. Mattes its president and chief executive
Shamir Karkal, the fintech company's CFO and co-founder, was a speaker at the Mobile Banking and Commerce Summit this week in Miami.
BBVA Compass announced Monday that it's offering Mitek's (MITK) Mobile Photo Bill Pay technology to its retail customers.
Citigroup said Monday that it has launched a mobile version of its CitiManager desktop portal. The management tool allows corporate cardholders to check in on accounts, statements and transactions.
Hewlett-Packard announced Monday that Spanish banking company NCG has chosen HP's Fortify service to assess the security of its software.
Charaka Kithulegoda, ING Direct Canada's chief information officer and an avid runner, has taken cues from a Nike training tool to help develop his branchless bank's approach to mobile.
As apps shrink the gap between financial firms and their customers, banks are coping with new and growing risks that accompany mobile devices.
The federal agency announced Friday that it was breaking up its complaint database by state and adding money transfer and credit reporting complaints to its already comprehensive look at consumer issues.
Prolexic boasted Thursday that it thwarted the largest distributed-denial-of-service-attack ever recorded (by its own measures).
Fidelity National Financial (FNF) announced Tuesday that it acquired Lender Processing Services (LPS), confirming rumors that the two had been making plans to make a deal worth $2.9 billion.
For at least the second time this spring, divisions of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group were affected by a mobile banking outage caused by an IT glitch.
Mortgage processor Lender Processing Services is reportedly in talks to be acquired by title insurer Fidelity National Financial and private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners in a $2.9 billion deal.
Experian announced Tuesday that a division of its marketing services department, QAS, has launched phone number verification software that can differentiate smartphones from landlines.
Capital One is employing a technology called responsive design that changes the appearance of its website for desktop, smartphone and tablet devices.
At least two startups who demoed at Finovate this week are trying to step in between banks and commercial borrowers in the same way peer to peer lenders already have with crowdfunding.
In a sign of the times, information security and authentication vendors dominate a fintech conference.
Green Dots aptly named mobile consumer checking account, GoBank, is leaving beta this summer and launching to a general audience over the upcoming Fourth of July.
When international criminals lifted $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks using stolen prepaid card data , Green Dot's chief executive Steve Streit says he wasn't surprised.