Compliance

The House easily passed the highway spending bill that was hammered out by the House and Senate conference and now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to be approved and sent off the White House to be signed into law.

So-called containers can lessen the IT workload and help companies bring applications into the cloud. New security and management tools, like automatic patching, are bringing containers into the mainstream.

Credit unions, banks and a host of other interests are challenging aspects of the way the FCC is interpreting and implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Visa and MasterCard were coerced by law enforcement into cutting ties with a website that runs sex-related ads. The decision is a powerful statement in the debate over how far government officials can go in enlisting financial institutions as their deputies.

NCUA has released several new videos about the protection it provides to federally-insured credit unions.

It used to be that chargebacks were just another cost of doing business. But with the e-commerce world growing by leaps and bounds, online merchants are experiencing a corresponding spike in chargeback rates that's eroding their bottom lines and jeopardizing their merchant accounts.

Merchants today face the daunting task of investing in several payment technology upgrades at once, and the confusion surrounding this process could bolster many pre-existing security vulnerabilities, argues point of sale security expert Chris Strand.

Target has agreed to pay $39 million to settle loss claims from a two-year-old data breach that were brought by MasterCard and a group of financial institutions, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Unlike the high-profile hacking incidents at big banks, smaller institutions have their own breed of threats such as cyberextortion that they must focus on in strengthening their security.

A number of regulatory reforms backed by the credit union lobby made it through the House-Senate conference process.