Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) has been slapped with a $35 million penalty for failing to protect the personal identifying information (PII) of about 15 million customers.

The White House has put together a framework for the "responsible development" of digital assets that includes a more aggressive push by regulators to take on fraud in the sector.

The UK financial sector was subject to a surge in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2022 after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

Source: Paytm Labs

Paytm Labs, the advanced R&D division of fintech giant Paytm, has launched Pi, an ML-powered fraud risk management (FRM) platform designed for fintechs, banks and eCommerce marketplaces with high transaction volumes.

Source: Hawk AI

Hawk AI, Germany’s leading software provider of anti-money laundering surveillance and anti-fraud technology for banks, payment firms, and fintech’s, today announced a new partnership with Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a global leader in driving connected commerce for the financial and retail industries.

Source: Westpac

Westpac has today launched its free Cyber Response Playbook to help counter the increase in cyber attacks, as new research shows almost half (49 per cent) of Australian small and medium sized businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the last 12 months.

Source: CellPoint Digital

CellPoint Digital, the global leader in payment orchestration, today announces it has teamed up with Cybersource, a Visa solution and a recognized worldwide leader in payments management, to provide merchants with a holistic solution for fraud management capable of aggregating transaction data across multiple acquirers.