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Unauthorized exposure of any type of customer data, for any period of time, is a serious issue, writes Carl Wright, chief commercial officer of AttackIQ.

The Small Business Administration should consider partnering with fintechs, which have the capacity to approve loans quickly, to help avoid the kind of application backlog the agency faced after the last government shutdown.

The Credit Union National Association and several institutions sued the fast food business after a data breach in 2016.

The time regulators take to decide on prospective deals has dropped sharply; a report says the cyberthieves were looking for info to help recruit spies.

Battle lines are hardening in the fight against stores that eschew cash, as New York City’s Committee on Consumer Affairs plans to hear arguments Thursday on a proposal to ban cashless stores like Amazon Go.

Walgreens is expanding its payment options to include Alipay, Ant Financial’s mobile wallet, at most of its U.S. stores.

The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee are asking for stakeholders to weigh in on data collection issues as lawmakers consider legislative responses to recent breaches.

The emails were disguised as being sent from BSA executives at other institutions and claimed that a member’s transfer was halted due to suspected money laundering.

With the opportunities provided by contributions, metered paywalls and single article purchases, we have a wealth of solutions already at our fingertips, argues Cosmin Ene, CEO of LaterPay.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Citigroup and a handful of others have pumped more than 100 million contactless credit and debit cards altogether into the U.S. market recently, but it’s a drop in the bucket in the world’s largest card market.