Compliance

Because wearable payments technology is still considered experimental, it is important to address security before the market for such products gets much bigger.

In mid-2015, several thousand banks registered for dot-bank domains. More than two years later, only a few hundred have converted.

Outsiders gained access to customer information at Southern National Bancorp of Virginia using a malicious email. Other financial institutions, meanwhile, are implementing policies in hopes of avoiding the same fate.

Equifax Inc.’s massive data breach is proving costly.

Coinbase Inc. customers who haven’t reported their cryptocurrency gains to the Internal Revenue Service, beware.

Letters from CUNA and NAFCU say credit unions are facing significant litigation threat from frivolous suits.

Company’s first earnings report since the data breach also discloses lots of suits and investigations; Senate bill also calls for one-year delay in corporate tax rate cut to 20%.

Readers chime in on the idea of a state-backed bank to serve the cannabis industry, data-sharing between banks and fintechs, whether community banks can just focus on tech laggards, and more.

The exploding value of the cryptocurrency since its first real-world transaction in 2010 is one reason the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is pushing to see records on thousands of users of Coinbase Inc., one of the biggest U.S. online exchanges.

Barros has no answer for Senate committee on encryption; a bitcoin network split won’t happen … for now.