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The US justice department has charged an alleged North Korean spy with a host of high-profile cyberattacks, including the $81 million Bangladesh Bank hack.
06 September 2018
Banks are increasingly turning to monitoring software in order to eradicate inappropriate behaviour on the trading floor.
29 August 2018
Both UK and European banks are separately looking at projects to design an early warning system using market data to mitigate the threat of major misconduct or the beginning of the next financial crisis.
28 August 2018
US authorities have charged three Ukrainians accused of being members of Fin7, a notorious cybergang believed to have hacked into the systems of over 100 American companies, stealing millions of card details from thousands of POS terminals.
03 August 2018
The National Bank of Blacksburg is suing an insurance firm over payouts related to two phishing attacks in the space of a few months which saw crooks steal more than $2.4 million.
24 July 2018
The great blockchain patent chase continues apace, with Barclays, Mastercard and American Express all filing applications in recent weeks.
20 July 2018
A French day trader is suing UK broker Valbury Capital after it voided the €10m profit he had accrued using what he thought was a demo version of its trading software but which turned out be a live account.
22 June 2018
A much anticipated report from the US Treasury on regulatory reforms for the fintech sector is set to recommend the use of regulatory sandboxes and fintech charters at both a state and federal level.
Singapore's government has outlined plans to develop a governance programme around the use of artificial intelligence and personal data in its bid to become an international centre for new technology.
13 June 2018
The UK government has launched a series of initiatives designed to attract more foreign fintech experts to work for UK startups and to encourage those same startups to remain in the UK rather than uproot to an EU-based neighbouring jurisdiction.
USAA has filed a federal lawsuit against Wells Fargo alleging patent infringement on its mobile remote deposit capture technology.
11 June 2018
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has been accused of spying on its customers after it emerged that it monitors mortgage holders' social media accounts
14 May 2018
Australian police are conducting investigations into a multi-million dollar fraud at NAB involving corrupt invoice payments to an external supplier.
10 April 2018
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has banned regulated banks and its account holders from dealing in cryptocurrencies.
06 April 2018
Spanish police have arrested a former HSBC IT worker who prompted a tax evasion scandal when he leaked the details of thousands of the bank's Swiss private banking unit's customers.
05 April 2018
A long-running court battle between Microsoft and the US government about whether the latter had the right to access emails held in Microsoft's Irish data centre has come to an anticlimactic end after a judge dismissed the case, ruling it to be "moot" due to the recent passing of the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act.
An initial coin offering (ICO) that raised $32m and was backed by celebrity boxer Floyd Mayweather has been dealt a knockout blow after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) arrested the company's founders for fraud.
04 April 2018
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) is setting up a dedicated unit to monitor cryptocurrency and fintech developments and inform future regulations and its first job will be to set up a proof of concept (PoC) for DLT-based interbank clearing and settlement.
A blind woman has lodged a lawsuit against Commonwealth Bank of Australia over its "inaccessible" touchscreen-only Albert POS terminal, which she says is so difficult to use she often needs to share her PIN with shop staff.
16 March 2018
A former Equifax executive has been charged by US authorities with insider trading, accused of selling off all of his stock in the credit rating agency last summer before it revealed it had suffered a massive data breach.
15 March 2018
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