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A director at Citizens Independent Bancorp in Logan, Ohio, resigned after members of management chastised him for an email security breach.

Federal financial regulators are incorporating lessons learned from the Swift hacks in their examinations, they told a lawmaker in a joint letter last week.

There’s no way to gift-wrap the EMV woes for issuers and retailers around the upcoming holiday sales season.

The recent security incident involving Oracle POS systems demonstrates once again that no system is immune to security breaches.

The promise of faster EMV technology is a welcome reprieve for many ISOs who have grown weary of listening to merchants gripe about the snail's pace of chip card transactions. That reprieve, however, may not be so quick in coming.

With all the innovation and momentum around consumer wallets and payments, payment security is a huge concern to banks, merchants, issuers, payment networks and any new wallet provider.

Blockchain technology is often suggested as an answer to the financial world's security problems. Banks on the Swift network are being hacked? Put those international wire-transfer instructions on a blockchain. Card-not-present fraud is up? Well then, merchants should just let people pay with bitcoin. Problem solved.

Eddie Bauer acknowledged that a data breach compromised credit cards used in its 350 stores during the first six and a half months of 2016.

Eddie Bauer acknowledged that a data breach compromised credit cards used in its 350 stores during the first six and a half months of 2016.

The regional bank has consolidated all of its digital operations under a single leader. Find out what he thinks about customer expectations, bots, fintechs and the coming convergence of digital banking.