With users now able to buy a blue verification badge for $8, parody accounts are on the rise — and so are the risks of fraud and impersonation.

After a Texas bank settled allegations by the Department of Justice, experts were split about the extent of the exposure for banks and fintechs that took part in the pandemic-era program.

Scams against the elderly are responsible for more than $3 billion in losses each year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Credit unions say they are seeing more cases, and often the hardest part is getting the victims to admit they've been taken advantage of.

The Minneapolis bank disclosed the investigation four months after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a settlement with Bank of America over the distribution of unemployment insurance benefits on prepaid debit cards.

A Justice Department probe into a controversial corner of the crypto world — Tether — has been struggling to reach a conclusion. Now a new team is taking a crack at investigating whether executives behind the popular stablecoin committed a crime.

New developments in the banking app space include apps for Gen Z bankers and the relaunch of Google Wallet.

A Bloomberg News analysis found more than 45 groups and pages — with more than 1 million combined members — where the spoils of cyber crimes and the tools needed to carry them out were offered for sale.

Decentralized finance, the once red-hot slice of the crypto universe that was at the center of this year's collapse of the digital-asset world, is facing a rapidly increasing new challenge: financial hacking.

An uptick in so-called operating losses helped drive up noninterest expenses excluding M&A costs at Truist Financial by 2% year over year, complicating its efforts to achieve positive operating leverage. The cost of reimbursing customers hurt by fraud seems to have been a contributing factor.

A criminal group called Prilex has stolen millions in a scheme involving fake repair people installing malware on point of sale terminals.

Victims of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme will soon get another $372 million in payouts, bringing the total amount distributed from a government fund to more than $4 billion since the collapse of the fraudster's company in 2008.

Russian billionaire Petr Aven, fighting a U.K. investigation for evading sanctions, used companies supposed to manage expenses for his luxury mansion as a personal "piggy bank," according to British authorities.

Financial institutions continue to push back against efforts to be held liable when a consumer is tricked into sending a payment that later turns out to be a scam.

The document automation company Ocrolus recently launched a new version of its fraud detection platform. Here's how it works and what other services lenders should consider.

Though fewer people are writing checks, banks of all sizes are seeing a massive increase in check fraud since 2020. Recouping losses from bad checks is pitting banks against each other, and regulators may have to weigh in.

Former Goldman banker Brijesh Goel was arrested last month for insider trading. His friend, ex-Barclays trader Akshay Niranjan, is "co-conspirator 1" in the criminal complaint against Goel, and the man who turned on his buddy, according to people familiar with the matter.

A data breach in 2022 costs companies $4.35 million on average, an all-time high according to IBM research.

FleetCor Technologies' CEO successfully pitched small businesses on "a better way to pay" for gas, making himself a billionaire in the process. But that success was built in part on falsely advertised rebates, concealed transactions fees and a host of other unfair practices, a federal judge ruled.

The federal jury acquitted a third defendant, a salesman on the desk who was accused of participating in the conspiracy.