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Today’s Cyber Risk Management

Cisco

The past 20 years have visibly demonstrated the impact large scale events have on market, credit, and operational risks in financial services. In between these events, a different crisis began in the US sub-prime lending market. The subsequent regulatory activity in response to these events focused on operational risks.

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Wall Street stock-lending platform crashes in ransomware attack

American Banker

The criminal hacking gang LockBit said it was behind a ransomware attack that shut down some of the operations of EquiLend, a financial technology firm that processes trillions of dollars of securities-lending transactions every month.

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Synthetic Identities: From Data Breaches to Auto Loan Fraud

FICO

It’s true: synthetic identities have become a major method for perpetrating auto lending fraud. In the auto lending industry, most cases involve a multi-step process between one party’s data breach and another’s fraud. Sometimes these parties are business partners operating in the same automotive ecosystem.

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Wells customers phished, Fed caps dividends, Citi’s new ops chief: Top stories of the week

American Banker

Wells Fargo customers targeted with phishing attacks using calendar invites; Fed freezes stock buybacks, caps dividends after stress test results; Citigroup names Titi Cole its head of global operations and fraud prevention.

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Four 2023 U.S. Policy Predictions for Financial Services Companies

FICO

With a weakening economy, BNPL firms have seen a rise in bad debts, growing losses, increased costs of operations and tumbling share prices. Some BNPL firms already are providing disclosures mandated by the Truth-in-Lending Act. There Will be Changes in the BNPL Market, but Major Regulatory Action Is at Least a Year Away.