Compliance

The legal team that Ellen Patterson oversees at TD now uses some custom courses to better understand such emerging technologies as biometrics, artificial intelligence and open banking.

A deaf woman who had over £8000 stolen from her bank account by fraudsters has become the latest symbol of the insecure practice of using phone numbers as proof of identity.

Five agencies issued a final rule that established swamp margin requirements with restrictions on certain qualified financial contracts.

Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce company which Walmart bought in August, has launched a cardless credit program for consumers and is expected to apply for an NBFC licence, or a classification as non-bank that provides credit and other financial services in India.

Every month, from January to April of this year, there were roughly 3.2 billion attacks perpetrated by malicious code that infiltrated business' networks. Representatives of smaller financial institutions disputed the notion that they are one of the weak links in the chain.

State regulators and advocacy groups say a federal breach notification standard could supersede state laws that already benefit consumers.

Once personal and financial information is accessible to criminals, it feeds the pipeline of future cybercrime for years to come, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security.

Hackers are illegally generating Monero, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by exploiting a software flaw that was leaked from the U.S. government, raising questions about the security of one of the fastest-growing corners of financial markets.

While nearly all banks, financial institutions and other organizations have a disaster recovery strategy in place, it’s clear that these plans are not enough to ensure these organizations remain online, regardless of what happens, according to Gijsbert Jassen van Doorn, technology evangelist at Zerto.

A recent bill to update data breach notification requirements has pitted state and federal credit union trade groups in opposing camps.