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Ashley D. Bell and Bernice A. King, respectively the CEO and advisory council chair of Ready Life, are teaming up to help folks with poor credit buy a home by using rent payment history for mortgage underwriting.

Fraudsters sometimes target customers of credit unions and smaller banks because the institutions lack the cybersecurity resources of larger players.

The deal advances Plaid’s standing as an aggregator of Canadian consumers’ banking data as the country weighs regulations of such activity.

The founder and CEO is being recognized during American Banker's Digital Banker of the Year program for establishing one of the true banking-as-a-service platforms at the New York-based Piermont.

A recent survey indicated banks and other firms continue to grapple with the cybersecurity challenges of remote work. To defend their data, they’re looking far beyond the traditional VPN.

A recent campaign targeting Quickbooks users claimed customers had their accounts suspended because of problems verifying their business information. It’s the latest example of scams that slither through multiple lines of defense.

The credit union’s members are disproportionately targeted by cybercrime. Password managers are critical to helping them protect themselves, said data security chief Mike Newborn.

Breaking barriers to education unites the team at Mpower Financing, an international student loan company with employees from more than a dozen countries that is ranked No. 1 on this year's Best Places to Work in Fintech.

The agency recently updated a policy document to include technological innovation as a top priority and said it was considering creating a safe harbor for those who develop new products to fight financial crimes.

Researchers may now have more leeway in helping banks uncover vulnerabilities to their systems, but legal gray areas remain.

Several federal agencies have recently stepped up requirements on banks to notify regulators and the public when they fall victim to cybersecurity incidents.

David Reilly oversaw cybersecurity efforts at the bank for years and has learned how employees with access to sensitive information can be flipped, conned or extorted into cooperating with hackers.

Launch Credit Union claims it reduced fraud by 97% after adopting a real-time solution in 2020.

Although the number of scam attempts is falling, especially in financial services, costs are up, data shows.

Crypto exchange woes, third-party vendor hacks and the threat of theft of inside information are among the concerns keeping chief information security officers up at night, according to a new survey.

A recent survey suggests the public thinks banks outperform credit unions on digital offerings. One industry expert says the opposite is true.

The annual event, while not specifically tied to the war in Ukraine, could prove to be opportune for financial institutions.

Younger people can lose thousands of dollars when they fall victim to fraud. Their ties to the digital world are both protective and compromising.

Banks report cyber events to their boards and regulators more than twice as often as they notify their customers and the general public, according to a recent survey. New reporting requirements could change the equation.

The bank's CEO, Mike Butler, finds signs of fraud using software from FiVerity that identifies suspicious behavior patterns across its client network.