How to fight the fraud crisis through blockchain and self-sovereign identity

By John Ainsworth The headlines keep coming with alarming frequency as are the bank alarms themselves: Earlier this month, HSBC acknowledged that the data of...

Cybersecurity Forecast 2019: What should we be looking at?

By Sean Duca Prediction No. 1: Business Emails with Nasty Surprises, Attached Businesses are quickly becoming cybercriminals’  favoured targets. Over $US12 billion worldwide has been stolen over...

BigTech is coming for the financial sector, and banks are starting...

  Until now that is. Rumors of Amazon expanding into financial services have been circulating for a while now, and at last Amazon-branded credit cards have hit the...

Bank of Montreal to create cybersecurity fusion centre to fight fraud,...

By Howard Solomon Eight months after suffering a data breach the Bank of Montreal says it is integrating its cybersecurity, fraud, and physical security capabilities into...

8 mobile payment trends that matter for 2019

By Mark Flamme, managing director, AlixPartners What’s the future of the point of sale? We will see global, cross-channel, point of sale solutions integrated with the...

JANET YELLEN: ‘I’M NOT A FAN OF BITCOIN’

By Pat Rabbitte Speaking at the Canada Fintech Forum in Montreal on Monday, Ex-Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen slated cryptocurrency Bitcoin.  Her criticisms were in the same vein...

Stronger security needed before open banking arrives

By Okta APAC GM Graham Sowden Historically, banks are known to be conservative and not expected to expose their customer data. This is driven by the...

As cybercrime grows, banks are increasingly being targeted

By Bertrand Borg Bank of Valletta was forced to shut down all its operations on Wednesday after detecting a cyber attack on its systems. It is the first...

Canadian banks hire ‘ethical hackers’ to improve and test cybersecurity

  Hackers are targeting Toronto-Dominion Bank's internal systems at all hours using cutting-edge techniques, but the bank's head of cybersecurity isn't losing sleep over them...

Machine learning innovations for fighting financial crime in an Open Banking...

By Pedro Bizarro Pedro Bizarro, Feedzai`s CSO, reveals three breakthroughs in fraud management which are designed to tackle real-time payments risks: OpenML, AutoML and Genome The fight...

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Amazon Will Have to Issue its Own Currency ‘Sooner or Later’, Binance CEO Claims

By Omar Faridi Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, a Malta-based digital asset exchange, recently predicted that Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, would eventually...

In 2019, online marketplaces will change the way you and the government shop

By Dinuke Ranasinghe 2018 has been a significant year for e-commerce. Just recently, we saw record breaking global sales numbers with US$7.9 billion transacted across Cyber Monday...

Ping Identity CTO’s cybersecurity predictions for 2019

  Ping Identity has released its annual cybersecurity predictions for 2019. Among the top five trends in the coming year are a decrease in successful attacks...