Meet Equifax’s data privacy partner since 2018
FinTech Futures speaks to Active Navigation’s chief revenue officer Dean Gonsowski.
Cybersecurity
FCA warns Deutsche over repeated compliance failings
The bank’s tardiness in notifying affected clients and regulators led to concerns.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 28 February 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
FCA data leak branded “embarrassment”, former CEO called for review
Regulator’s former CEO Andrew Bailey called out for “tsunami of failure”.
Four lessons learned about fraud in 2019
We look back at the year gone by to see what lessons we can take with us this year.
Three top tips to combat visual hacking
Make it hard for screens to be viewed, consider installing privacy filters and other points.
The trade in human beings: How financial institutions and tech can have an impact
Banks in particular can do a lot to curb sex trafficking.
OTB Ventures raises $100m for Central and Eastern European tech start-ups
OTB aims to fill its portfolio with 16 CEE companies by 2022.
Mastercard plans its first European cybersecurity centre
The Cyber Resilience Centre will work with European cybersecurity agencies.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 14 February 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
20th Banking Technology Awards Supplement
A golden celebration of excellence and innovation.
Cybercrime in financial services: Work together to win the war
We need is a smart, flexible way of working together anticipate and respond to threats.
Banking Technology February 2020 issue out now
Top dogs: The challenger bank success stories of 2019.
eBook: Digital identity management – the foundation of successful financial services
How to identify, recognise, authenticate and protect customers – wherever they are, at scale, in real time, across a growing number of devices, and connected objects.
Travelex puts money transfer systems online after cyberattack
A majority of the firm’s services remain down.
UK court orders Bitfinex to freeze $860,000 in bitcoin
Chainalysis traced the funds to a ransomware payment through Bitfinex’s platform.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 24 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Payments security: A year in review
Majority of the largest breaches to be reported in 2019 were caused by poor security protocols.
What the “decade of the data breach” can teach us
Organisations can simply no longer trust that an online user is who they claim to be.
Cloud: Does it deserve a bad rap from the Treasury?
The Treasury Committee singles out the cloud as a “source of systemic risk”.
Greece’s major banks cancel 15,000 cards after travel website breach
“A few dozen” customers had been charged with transactions they never made.
For the sake of fraud fighting: how to secure online transactions on the Russian market
All the new forms of digital interaction are getting particularly vulnerable to fraudulent activities.
Equifax’s 2017 data breach will cost firm at least $1.38bn
$380.5m is for breach compensation, and $1 bn for information security overhaul.
P&N Bank reveals customer data accessed in data breach
Names, addresses and bank balances may have been accessed in the breach.
Travelex cyberattack drags into third week
FX firm claims its systems are slowly coming back online.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 11 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Signicat appoints new CEO and chairman
Signicat already works with DNB, Allianz and Saxo Bank.
Canada’s major banks impersonated in two-year phishing campaign
The impersonators harvested customers’ online banking logins.
Standard Chartered pinches new global head of cybersecurity from Singtel
David McLinton also spent time as JP Morgan Chase’s CISO.
British government investigating cyber-attack link to 2019 LSE outage
The August 2019 outage delayed trading by an hour and 40 minutes.
Travelex ordered to pay $3m ransom by cybercriminals
The ailing FX firm is wrestling with a New Year’s ransomware attack.
The extension of SCA: a sensible move or an unnecessary delay?
UK Finance notes more than 75% of merchants are unaware of SCA.
Travelex quarantines website, internal systems after New Year’s Eve cyber-attack
Foreign exchange firm working “round the clock” to fix the attack.
Qatar International Islamic Bank picks IBM for fraud prevention
QIIB selects Big Blue for its mobile and online banking channels.
Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers hit by system outage
The incident took place from around 4am on New Year’s Day.
JP Morgan vows to ban fintech apps from using customer passwords
It’s working towards issuing tokens that send third parties a narrow range of data in a secure form.
Mastercard reveals acquisition of AI-based risk firm RiskRecon
The deal with RiskRecon is expected to close in Q1 2020.
Incumbents are putting aside religions of old, says cyber firm Veracode
The rise of cloud-native fintechs is “acting as a message to incumbents”, says CTO
Australia delay open banking regulation by six months over cybersecurity concerns
Banks are “extremely concerned about cybersecurity”, says ACCC.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
