Fines for anti-money laundering (AML) failings by regulated institutions were five times higher in 2020 than 2019, totalling $2.2 billion.
Crypto exchange Bitmart has become the latest DeFi firm to fall victim to a large-sacle security breach, losing an estimated $100 million and suspending all withdrawals.
Ireland's central bank has fined Bank of ireland €24.5 million over IT deficieincies that the lender took over a decade to fix.
American banking regulators have put together a roadmap that will see them offer clarity over the next year on a host of areas relating to crypto assets.
US regulators have approved a new rule that requires banks to report any "significant" computer security incident within 36 hours of discovering it.
As regulators hone their focus on Decentralised Finance (DeFi), new data from Elliptic reveals that just over $12 billion in losses have been suffered over the past year by DeFi users and investors.
Shares in Robinhood have taken a dip after the retail stockbroking platform revealed that five million customer e-mail addresses were lifted from its servers during a social engineering hack.
The rapid shift to digital by established banks in Apac is outpacing their capacity to adequately protect themselves from emergent cyber threats, according to analysis by the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-Isac).