12/14/2016
Cybersecurity - a 2016 review
Latest issue of Maitland's Intouch
Cyber Security
12/14/2016
RegTech Futures: hipsters, hackers and hustlers – making innovative compliance a reality
The potential of regtech innovators to re-imagine compliance reducing the cost, creating more robust systems and creating new opportunities
12/12/2016
Börse Berlin implements Scila Surveillance
A realiable realtime surveillance of trading is one of the core elements at a regulated market for securities
12/07/2016
Credit Cards can be Hacked in Just 6 Seconds—Reveals New Study
Distributed Guessing Attack is believed to be a real threat
12/05/2016
Information sharing closes security loop
The ISPA has already engaged with SABRIC, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre
12/05/2016
Artificial intelligence in mind as Commonwealth Bank develops future tech
The work will come alongside a broader program of innovative projects investigating the possibilities of technologies
12/02/2016
FS-ISAC sets up Asian threat intelligence chapter with MAS
This Singapore-based Intelligence Centre is expected to begin operations in the first half of 2017.
12/01/2016
Beneficial ownership: Cyberthreat a concern in plan
The concerns is the possibility of hackers gaining access to private information.
11/30/2016
New Ransomware Uses Social Media, Demands Payment in Bitcoin
Previous generations of ransomware have favored cryptocurrency before, bitcoin’s structure being ideal for online crime.
11/29/2016
Hackers target high-profile customers of Liechtenstein bank in extortion scam - Report
Scammers demand a portion of victims' bank account amount, threatening exposure.
11/25/2016
National Bank of Malawi selects Swiss FinTech NetGuardians
Risks are present at all corners during core banking upgrades.
11/25/2016
Asian and African banks are attacked using zero-day vulnerability
The exploit is delivered to the victim via a spear-phishing email with the infected document attached
11/23/2016
Banks asked to be wary of internal cyber attacks
Ghana is doing quite well in the ICT sector
11/22/2016
Hackers target ATMs across Europe as cyber threat grows
The newly disclosed heists across Europe follow the hacking of ATMs in Taiwan and Thailand that were widely reported over the summer.
11/17/2016
Israel cybersecurity tech helps NatWest catch online crooks
BioCatch, which tracks behavior to detect online fraud, says UK bank has successfully tried its tech with clients
11/15/2016
Cyber insurance underwriting risk – CP39/16
The CP sets out the PRA’s proposed expectations in relation to the ability of firms to exercise prudent management of cyber insurance underwriting risk.
11/14/2016
Banking Regulators Propose Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards
The proposed ANPR standards would be integrated into these existing supervisory frameworks.
11/11/2016
Why banks need consumers to detect imposters by Jeremy Newman, founder of ShowUp
Banks need to reconsider the security practices they put in place so as to allow consumers to tackle this fraud. Rather than continuing to impose a practice that everyone acknowledges is fundamentally flawed, banks need to reach out to consumers for help.
11/03/2016
African Fintech launces New Offerings at this year's Websummit
As well as potential investors who share our vision.
10/29/2016
Three ways to get ahead of IoT cyber-risks by Shawn Conners and Shafeeq Banthanavasi, PwC
Last week’s assault on internet infrastructure by hackers commanding a hijacked army of connected devices—the latest in a series of record-setting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks