Latest Privacy News: Finextra Research

Sibos: CBDC case studies in China, Kazakhstan, the Bahamas, and Europe

On the second day of Sibos, Benedicte Nolens, centre head of the BIS Innovation Hub moderated the session ‘Reality check: How far have CBDCs come?’, and the speakers outlined how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are in various processes of development in their countries.

22 October 2024

News/crime

UK Economic Secretary Tulip Siddiq called on to reduce APP fraud reimbursement to £30k

This news comes a week after the UK payments group issued a plea to Chancellor Rachel Reeves to impose a 'Tech Levy' on social media giants to pay for the impact of payments fraud originating from their platforms.

11 July 2024

News/regulation

ABC Projektai wins back banking licence

In a dramatic move, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that ABC Projektai can regain their banking licence after it being revoked by the Bank of Lithuania.

28 June 2024

News/devops

NextGen Nordics 2024: Where will AI lead us?

In the last panel of NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, ‘The future of AI - crystallising the potential of this technology’ speakers explored how AI and new trends in tech are impacting the payments industry.

24 April 2024

News/regulation

NextGen Nordics 2024: How will incoming regulation shape payments infrastructure?

At NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, moderator Debi Bell Hoskings hosted an interactive panel session on new regulation on data and privacy, asking for input from the audience.

24 April 2024

News/crime

Google sues crypto scammers using Play Store to lure victims

Google is suing two app developers who lured victims into downloading fraudulent investment apps on the Google Play Store.

05 April 2024

News/crypto

Worldcoin banned in Portugal over privacy concerns

Worldcoin, the crypto biometric project fronted by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, has been temporarily banned in Portugal over data privacy concerns.

27 March 2024

News/payments

MPE 2024: What does a smart city look like?

In a keynote presentation at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 in Berlin, Hemlata Narasimhan, president of Elavon explored what a smart city could look like in 2030, using Venice, Italy as a case study.

13 March 2024

News/payments

Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

News/regulation

Bank of Ireland UK reprimanded by ICO for mistakes on over 3,000 accounts

Inaccurate data was shared from 3,284 customers’ profiles to credit reference agencies, which may have led to refusal for mortgages, credit cards or loans, or customers being granted too much credit, that they were unable to afford.

15 December 2023

News/regulation

NatWest admits to failings in Farage fiasco, FCA to review case

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found potential “regulatory breaches” in NatWest’s decision to close former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage’s accounts earlier this year.

27 October 2023

News/payments

EU data protection watchdog calls for more privacy for digital euro

The European data protection watchdog has recommended changes to EU draft legislation for a digital euro in order to boost privacy standards.

18 October 2023

News/regulation

CFPB proposes sweeping changes for the handling of consumer data

The CFPB announced plans to introduce considerable changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that would have far-reaching consequences for data brokers, furnishers and end users.

22 September 2023

News/inclusion

FCA finds no proof of de-banking politicians in initial findings

A report published today by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found no proof that politicians bank accounts are being closed as a result of their political views.

19 September 2023

News/regulation

TikTok fined €345 million for EU privacy breaches

The Chinese-owned short-video platform has been fined over its handling of children's data in Europe between the 31st of July, 2020, and the 31st of December, 2020.

15 September 2023

News/regulation

More banks pay multi-million dollar penalties over WhatsApp use

Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas are among the latest banks to be hit with multi-million dollar penalties by US regulators over employee use of unofficial communication tools like WhatsApp and iMessage.

08 August 2023

News/crime

How instant payments will impact financial crime mitigation

Speaking at the Temenos Community Forum at Vienna earlier this year, Finextra interviewed Adam Gable, product director of financial crime, treasury, and risk at Temenos, and Hani Hagras, chief science officer at Temenos to discuss how instant payments has been a catalyst to accelerate speed and innovation in financial crime mitigation.

26 July 2023

News/devops

Mizuho to roll out generative AI to employees

Japanese bank Mizuho has made Microsoft’s OpenAI platform available to its 45,000 workers.

28 June 2023

News/payments

Survey shows consumer concern over AI-driven payments

The vast majority of consumers (86%) have reservations about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the payments process but seem much more welcoming of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), suggests recently published research.

27 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday: Collaboration and the future of fraud prevention in PaaS

The second day of EBAday 2023 started off with the hot topic of Payments as a Service (PaaS), and specifically some of the preventative measures which need to be undertaken to secure PaaS against cyber-attacks and fraud.

23 June 2023