Privacy

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

Research/PrivacyEvent Report

Keeping Pace with Customer Experience Demands during Cloud Migration

11 August 2023 157 downloads

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

News/regulation

Biden and Harris address AI regulation with BigTech CEOs

US President Joe Biden met with CEOs of several leading tech firms to discuss the dangers of rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.

05 May 2023

News/regulation

ChatGPT's AI privacy concerns the subject of new EU taskforce

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body of Europe’s national privacy watchdog, has formed a ChatGPT taskforce to establish privacy guidelines on the AI platform.

14 April 2023

Research/Privacy

Customer Experience - Is Hyperpersonalisation the next frontier?

06 April 2023 447 downloads

News/regulation

Open finance prioritised in UK’s new Data Protection and Innovation Bill

The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology has proposed a revised version of the Data Protection and Digital Innovation Bill.

10 March 2023

News/cloud

Financial Cloud Summit 2023: Strategising digital transformation and balancing trust with partners

To successfully engage in digital transformation in the transition to the cloud, financial firms are looking for creative methods to approach their cloud strategy. In doing so, companies are dealing with issues of cost, security, and scalability. The first stage of the conference explores how companies are making strategic on visibility, data ownership, cloud providers, and more.

02 March 2023

News/regulation

SEC WhatsApp crackdown expands to hedge funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission is widening its probe into Wall Street's use of WhatsApp for conducting business to include major hedge funds, according to Bloomberg.

06 February 2023

News/identity

LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Finextra Research partner for Trust:Live 2023

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and Finextra Research will be hosting Trust:Live 2023, an exclusive in-person event for all fraud and identity decision makers that brings together industry leaders, experts and innovators to discuss the latest challenges in establishing trust to protect customers, defend brands, or meet the needs of evolving business models

31 January 2023

News/crime

Thousands of PayPal users victim of data breach

The accounts of 34,942 PayPal users were hacked between the 2nd and 6th of December 2022 by unauthorised parties through a credential stuffing attack. Hackers potentially gained access to customers’ personal data, including their name, address, date of birth, tax ID number, and social security number.

20 January 2023

News/security

Combatting fraudsters is a ‘cat-and-mouse’ game - ING

In conversation with Finextra, Beate Zwijnenberg, chief information security officer at ING, canvassed new trends in cybercrime and how the banking giant is working against phishing and scams for its customers.

09 December 2022

News/security

Macron advocates for online child safety initiative

French President Emmanuel Macron has launched the Children Online Protection Laboratory to protect children from potential online threats and cyberbullying by monitoring harmful content.

11 November 2022

News/regulation

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, among banks fined $1.1 billion by SEC

16 of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions been charged to pay a combined $1.1 billion to US regulators for not monitoring unauthorised employee messaging, announced the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday.

28 September 2022

News/startups

Griffin launches API-first BaaS platform Verify

London-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider Griffin has launched Verify, a customer onboarding product to assist fintechs manage crime risks and KYC and KYB automation.

07 September 2022

News/security

N26 takes the offensive against phishing scams

Digital transformation of the financial industry has led to a major rise in global phishing scams and cyber-attacks. In order to protect consumers from falling victim to fraud, banks must enhance security protocols.

07 September 2022