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Capital One to require all staff to show proof of vaccination in hybrid re-opening

Capital One is to require all vistors to its HQ and other office locations to show proof that they have been double-vaccintated, as as an outbreak of the delta variant pushes back a planned re-opening by two months.

12 August 2021

News/cloud

Capital One leads $15m Lightico raise

Lightico, a startup that helps firms - including banks - collect forms, signatures, documents and payments from customers digitally, has raised $15 million in a follow-on Series B round led by Capital One Ventures.

19 July 2021

Company announcement/retail

Plaid forms open finance partnership with Capital One

Last year, Plaid announced a goal to commit 75% of our traffic to APIs by the end of 2021.

10 June 2021

News/security

Capital One invests in Socure

Machine learning-based digital identity verification firm Socure has received an undisclosed strategic investment from Capital One Ventures.

07 June 2021

News/security

Capital One Ventures invests $24 million in Securonix

Capital One Ventures has invested $24 million in cloud security intelligence firm Securonix in conjunction with a strategic partnership.

11 March 2021

News/wholesale

Wells Fargo leads $20m Series A for cash management startup Trovata

Trovata, a US startup specialising in automating cash reporting and forecasting through wholesale, multi-bank API data aggregation, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.

20 January 2021

News/crime

Capital One hit with $390 million fine over "egregious" AML failures

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has enforced a $390 million civil money penalty on Capital One for engaging in both "willful and negligent" violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.

19 January 2021

Company announcement/payments

Fiserv expands MoneyPass ATM network to Capital One customers

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, announced today a new agreement with Capital One that will offer customers secure, convenient, surcharge-free access to their funds at thousands of ATMs across the nation.

11 January 2021

News/security

Capital One fined $80m for massive 2019 hack

Capital One has agreed to a $80 million fine from US regulators over a 2019 hack which exposed the personal information of more than 100 million customers and applicants.

06 August 2020

News/cloud

Capital One suspect indicted

Seattle-based software engineer Paige Thompson faces up to 25 years in prison after being indicted on two counts related to the Capital One data breach that affected 106 million customers.

29 August 2019

News

US lawmakers intensify questioning over Capital One data breach

US lawmakers are stepping up their probe into the Capital One data breach, firing questions to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos about the role of AWS cloud controls in the incident.

08 August 2019

News/security

Capital One data breach inquiry launched by Republicans

The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform has requested a briefing with Capital One over the data breach that left 106 million credit card holders and applicants in the US and Canada at risk of their personal information being stolen.

02 August 2019