Sean Vanatta is a senior lecturer in financial history and policy at the University opf Glasgow. He is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Credit Cards and the Making of Modern Consumer Finance (Yale University Press, 2024) and, with Peter Conti-Brown, Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America (Princeton University Press, 2025). His work has also appeared in the Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, Management & Organizational History, and the Review of Social Economy.