Bank of Canada governor says digital currencies could cause “significant disturbance”; JPM testing quantum computing's abilities.

The Trump administration's first interagency assessment of systemic risk highlighted many of the same worries as previous reports, but added a new emphasis on economic growth and regulatory tailoring.

Departing central bank chief says colleagues are committed to strict bank regulation; marketplace lending not living up to promises as delinquencies continue to rise.

Banks are looking at using the powerful number-crunching technology to make risk calculations, analyze portfolios and protect their systems against sophisticated cyberattacks.

Interactive Brokers says it will allow customers to bet against the cybercurrency; aides to Alabama senator drafted for key regulatory positions to ease banking rules.

A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm that runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe.

In a rare show of public support for a security technology, the banks are leading a $40 million funding round for Menlo Security, provider of browser technology that keeps malware at bay — and they’re using it, too.

Tether's $31 million hack gave bitcoin skeptics plenty to crow about. But experts say bad security is to blame, not digital assets.

A whistleblower charges that during the Obama administration, Treasury's Office of Financial Research manipulated information that it provided during a review by the Governmental Accountability Office.

Recent data breach events in September 2017 in the U.S., involving the stock value drop of Sonic as well as Equifax, are evidence of the negative impact of data breaches on the economic value of businesses. Clearly, they have become incidents of board-level importance, writes Justhy Deva Prasad, chief data partner at Claritysquare.

Debit and credit both have their downsides, but both of those downsides disappear if you stay up to date with the latest fraud prevention and chargeback management practices, writes Suresh Dakshina, president of Chargeback Gurus.

The Office of Financial Research warned that a cyberattack could "disrupt the operations of one or more financial companies and markets and spread through financial networks and operational connections to the entire system."

An ex-regulator’s stern warning about the risks of sharing consumer information with fintechs has prompted debate over common security standards for banks and nonbanks, better data tracking and new liability insurance products.

Empow's security platform, integrated into a company's network through APIs or by routing data to empow, breaks down the individual components of a security tool to create an "abstracted new layer" that talks to a set of artificial intelligence algorithms.

PayPal wants to integrate TIO's bill payment customers into PayPal's network, but a data breach has that goal on hold.

Describing cybersecurity as the biggest risk facing the financial sector, Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said regulators should more actively facilitate conversations between banks and national security agencies to boost digital security.

The trade group wants Equifax to reimburse community banks for costs tied to the massive data breach at the credit bureau this year. The ICBA also wants a court to order Equifax to improve its security measures.

One estimate says 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs will go unfilled by 2021. Banks are looking to military veterans, universities and even high schools to help fill the gap.

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies, a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year.

The breach that affected more than 143 million Americans has still has credit unions worried, according to new data from NAFCU -- and they're expecting costs to rise as a result.