Investment

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney has cited hundreds of confirmed and suspected data breaches as justification for his halting the bureau's data collection activities last month.

Fears about regulators coming down on digital currency trading caused an epic crash in the market. But reining in this evolving asset class won't be easy.

Trust is probably the most critical attribute of any organization that deals with a person's financial well-being. However, trust is easily lost.

A group of big financial institutions wants to use the blockchain to make it easier and less costly to track home mortgages packaged into securities.

As senators weigh anti-money-laundering reforms, they reiterated their desire to include cryptocurrencies as part of legislative discussions.

This dangerous "wild west" scenario of fraud and breaches is pushing improving or revamping online authentication to the top of this year’s to-do list for both online companies and governments, writes Robert Capps, vice president of business development for NuData Security.

In a move rare for the industry, the bank bought a team of data scientists to bolster its artificial intelligence efforts in areas including product recommendations and fraud prevention.

Credit unions, trade associations and others wishing to join the Credit Union National Association's class action suit against Equifax have until the end of January to do so.

Gift card giant Blackhawk Network will be acquired by the tech investment firm Silver Lake, along with P2 Capital Partners, for $3.5 billion in a move underscoring investor interest in the shift to mobile digital technology, where Blackhawk devoted millions in recent years.

Payments security experts are warning of the risks to some merchants with payment systems that transmit cardholder data from the processor back to the point of sale from the Spectre and Meltdown computer chip flaws.