Data security

Changing the rules in the middle of the game. Rescuing the investors who took big risks at the expense of those who behaved prudently. Undermining the credibility of the system.

As sexy as decentralized systems and automation are these days, human involvement is still necessary in many areas.

The answer may be no, according to federal regulators. Their new guidelines on mobile security include other surprises, too, such as specific requirements tied to geolocation, security tests and cross-site scripting.

Visa is acknowledging a merchant EMV migration logjam by loosening fraud chargeback policies and enabling faster chip card certifications for merchants.

Despite some early success, it can’t be ignored that there are still many merchants that cannot accept EMV chip cards.

American Express has joined Visa and MasterCard as a major card brand offering faster authorization at the point of sale to ease the perception that EMV payments take too long.

If banks don't weigh in on an appropriate privacy standard, they risk letting outside events spark onerous new regulations.

Merchants and cardholders alike have been challenged by the perceived additional time to complete the EMV transaction. These concerns pushed both Visa and MasterCard to create a response to improve the speed of transacting: Visa's Quick Chip and MasterCard's M/Chip Fast.

Cybercriminals understand psychology just as much as they do technology. Here are steps your bank employees must take to mitigate the risk of phishing and other attacks.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was able to access emails between staff at the agency's Office of Inspector General in a possible violation of the watchdog agency's independence, the FDIC confirmed Monday.

A vendor-created messaging network has attracted hundreds of community banks, many of which have decided it is easier to stop financial crime as a group.

Many financial criminals are switching to a more sophisticated kind of identity theft in which they open accounts based on stolen identities, or on composites of information stolen from different people.

Many financial criminals are switching to a more sophisticated kind of identity theft in which they open accounts based on stolen identities, or on composites of information stolen from different people.

Kyle Largent offered himself up as "Exhibit A" for U.S. online merchants' greatest fear: that EMV chip card adoption at the point of sale would cause fraud to spike online.

Regulators need to start paying attention to "denial-of-system" attacks as one of the triggers that could bring down a systemically important institution.

Throw Cathy Bessant of Bank of America a question about a hot tech topic, and she's got answers. Blockchain? She loves it but is still waiting for its use case. Patents? The law is making us be aggressive. Swift? A call to action. And that's just the start.

Federal regulators issued a statement Tuesday reminding banks how they can protect themselves from cyberattacks.

Following Wells Fargo's salvo against screen scraping, one of the leading account aggregators says the larger issue is who has control over consumers' data: the customers themselves, or the banks?

The archaic practice of using customers' online banking credentials to copy and paste their account information into other programs has been under fire. With a new API, Wells Fargo hopes to bring this practice to an end.

U.S. card issuers lose $10.9 billion each year to card fraud, according to research released Tuesday by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.