Compliance

Ant Group Co. and a venture led by Grab Holdings Ltd. won licenses to run digital banks in Singapore, paving the way for the technology giants to expand their financial services in the Southeast Asian hub.

Apple Inc. phones face scrutiny from Dutch antitrust regulators who are probing whether users get a free choice of financial apps with contactless payments.

The Accredited Standards Committee X9 is forming a group to study faster and real-time payments activity in the financial industry and eventually recommend new X9 standards and upgrades that would enhance interoperability and adoption.

Less than two months after launching a software-based model to replace traditional point of sale terminals, MagicCube has received a security compliance allowance from Visa for the mobile-driven system.

Visa insists that the Department of Justice, in objecting to its proposed $5.3 billion purchase of Plaid, fundamentally misunderstands the changing role of data in the payments industry.

Whenever a technology moves into the payments or financial data ecosystem, it alerts fraudsters to probe it more intensely — and ultimately, figure out a way to use it as an attack vector.

The agency finalized a policy allowing companies to submit formal requests for clarification on a regulatory issue. The bureau said it will publish the advisory rulings in the Federal Register.

India banned another 43 Chinese apps including some of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s key shopping services, expanding its mobile blacklist to more than 200 applications.

Organizations need complete control over which network access privileges are assigned to each user or role, says Pulse Secure's Rene Papp.

Big banks and other financial firms predict the cost of warding off cybercriminals will keep climbing in 2021 as they work to secure digital financial services popularized by the pandemic.