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The cyber security threat landscape in financial services

Insights on Business

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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Proposed new cyber security regulations will be a huge undertaking for financial institutions

Celent Banking

New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDSF) is one step closer to releasing cyber security regulations aided by the largest security hacking breach in history, against JP Morgan Chase. The timing will undoubtedly put pressure on regulators to push through strong regulation. Information security.

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Experts: US House Examines Legislative Actions To Combat Cybercriminals

PYMNTS

He also recommended that the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) be charged with “the responsibility to create a framework for regulating cryptocurrencies and developing guidelines for strong protections against money laundering and cybersecurity threats to those marketplaces.”.

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2015 Marriott Breach: Prelude To 2018 Cyberattack?

PYMNTS

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing cyber security specialists, the breach in which the personal information of as many as 500 million customers was exposed began in 2014, going undetected until September of 2018. The hack could hurt Marriott’s reputation at a time when it’s fighting off the likes of Airbnb.

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CSBS Launches Three Online Tools for the Financial Services Industry

CFPB Monitor

Each of these initiatives provides valuable new resources for both banks and non-banks to stay apprised of changing state regulatory systems and technological advances that impact the financial services industry. State regulators are encouraged to provide copies of pertinent guidance documents they issue for inclusion in this repository.

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Betting the Bank on Your IT Experts

Jack Henry

As an example, the governor of New York State recently directed his Department of Financial Services to conduct targeted cyber security preparedness assessments for all state-chartered banks and other banks “based” in the state.

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M-Pesa open API part of wider payments progress

Banking 2020

Open APIs are a key part of wider transformation in the banking industry and will become much more common as regulation forces banks to open up their systems. In Europe, this is being enshrined into national law as part of the PSD2 regulation, which comes into force in 2016. ” Progress?