With substantial regulatory relief within reach, community bankers should use their clout to shape cybersecurity policy and ensure a level playing field for banks and nonbanks, retiring ICBA chief Cam Fine says.

The measure easily passes with a two-thirds majority; Wells Fargo CEO's pay up by a third, but no cash bonus.

A former senior executive at Equifax Inc. was criminally charged for allegedly selling almost $1 million worth of shares before the company’s announcement last year that it had suffered a massive data breach.

There is a growing need for professionals who install and support merchant payment systems to be aware of and trained on critical security controls, writes Mauro Lance, chief operating officer of the PCI Security Standards Council.

Timothy Zimmerman is optimistic about regulatory relief and the capabilities of the association's next CEO, but he remains wary of nonbank competition and cybersecurity risk.

Policymakers need to focus less on how they regulate the banking industry’s cyber defenses and more on how they will protect the financial system from an attack.

As both the volume and value of digital currencies increase, so will inevitable attempts to commit fraud and theft. In this nascent stage, what is protecting cryptocurrency buyers and sellers?

The fear of data breaches has become a regular part of life, but many regs that help protect auto lenders were written before that threat originated. Here's how to protect yourself.

Banks and retailers are sparring over whether financial firms should follow a new national standard to quickly notify consumers when they've experienced a data breach.

Economic adviser leaves after President Trump announces steel tariffs; Senate votes to begin debating Dodd-Frank changes, which are expected to pass later this week.

The World Economic Forum said the effort is designed to strengthen fintech cybersecurity.

Manual means of dispute management are inefficient and growing untenable in the current security and compliance environment, writes Brad Johnson, director of solutions consulting at Centrix Solutions.

Breach investigations can be very lengthy and it is not uncommon to disclose additional findings over time, writes Mounir Hahad, head of threat research at Juniper Networks.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is among several agencies that "continue to investigate events related to" last year's Equifax brief, the credit reporting firm said in a securities filing.

The bank overcharged some customers and some received inappropriate investment advice; 2.4 million more people were affected by the breach.

Equifax, the credit bureau breached by hackers last year, said the card-payments industry may cut off its access to certain data or impose fines if the company can't prove it's addressed weaknesses.

Equifax, the credit-reporting firm that suffered a massive data breach last year, said it will notify an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers that they were affected by the hack.

Financial institutions and retail companies are trading barbs over which industry poses greater risk to sensitive customer information just as lawmakers are planning to take another stab at a data security bill.

The North Carolina bank is the latest regional to experience a widespread outage.

A bipartisan bill to establish a federal security framework follows a string of efforts beset by congressional turf battles.