Data security

In many ways, the goal of the GDPR is to increase difficulty for a hacker, while also flipping the rights of data ownership back to the European consumer. U.S. companies that serve European consumers are obligated to follow the regulations.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a scathing report Wednesday on Equifax's handling of the data breach last year, part of an effort to gain backing for legislation to rein in the credit bureaus.

The U.S. charged 36 people in a takedown of an international cybercrime ring that prosecutors say used the slogan “In Fraud We Trust” and stole $530 million with the help of pilfered identities and malware.

In recent weeks three surveys have been released that assess the U.S. fraud landscape across all of these audiences. These reports provide a holistic snapshot of where payments fraud in the U.S. is today.

Shares drop nearly twice as much as other bank stocks and the broader market; agency denies it’s looking to end the investigation into last year’s data breach.

It is unclear whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is abandoning its supervisory oversight of Equifax or just taking a back seat to the Federal Trade Commission as the latter investigates the credit bureau.

Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s decision to halt the collection of consumer data renders bank exams less effective and ignores existing cybersecurity protections, the Massachusetts senator argues.

Sometimes an idea is ahead of its time. Many of the most ambitious products in fintech were dismissed as absurd or overambitious at the time — only to feel perfectly normal years later as culture and consumer habits evolved.

The government must continue to provide support for the mortgage market in any new housing finance system, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday.

As interest rates go up, volume expected to drop to its lowest level since 2000; thieves can make cash machines release money “like winning slot machines.”