WASHINGTON — Seven financial trade groups announced Monday that they are banding together to push legislation that would extend banklike data security standards to retailers and nonbank businesses.

As the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. grapples with a series of newly revealed cybersecurity incidents, the U.S. government is prosecuting a former agency employee over a 2012 breach.

Huntington Bancshares is the latest institution to add a cybersecurity expert to its board, highlighting the growing importance of guarding against hackers and other online dangers.

The rub is that the global messaging system's security is only as strong as the weakest link.

Swift, the inter-bank messaging system embroiled in one of the largest cyber heists in history, warned customers that hackers have struck again, attacking a commercial bank client that it didn't name.

The payment giant's technology chief says he has an eye on bitcoin, the blockchain and the fintech competitors that have flooded the payments arena — and vows his company will consider partnering with some of them and can beat the rest.

Hackers believed to be working from China accessed the computer systems of top officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to a top House lawmaker investigating the incident.

Officials from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bangladesh Bank and payments network Swift vowed Tuesday to catch the thieves who took $81 million out of the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Fed.

Many bank security people will undoubtedly shrug off Anonymous' claim that it's trying to bring down banks all over the world. There are a few reasons to take it seriously.

Maria Vullo, still stuck in limbo as acting superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, is hindered from putting her mark on the agency until she gets confirmed. So a quiet guessing game is going on about how her supervisory philosophy will compare with her predecessor Benjamin Lawsky.