Source: ISACA
Schaumburg, IL, USA (14 July 2020) – Effective governance and management of information security is necessary for achieving enterprise objectives. It can help enterprises build resilience and minimize the occurrence and impact of security breaches that can cause reputational damage, legal and regulatory risk, or even threaten their very survival. COBIT Focus Area: Information Security is the highly anticipated first focus area publication to launch under the COBIT 2019 umbrella, fulfilling its promise to make its guidance more flexible and practical to use.
Source: Kaspersky
Brazilian cybercriminals, long regarded as some of the most creative malware creators, have begun to take their original malicious programmes outside the country. According to Kaspersky researchers, four advanced banking families—Guildma, Javali, Melcoz and Grandoreiro—have begun targeting users in North America, Europe, and Latin America.
Source: Konsentus
Konsentus announced today that IT Financial Services company, Bankdata, has selected Konsentus to provide Third Party Provider (TPP) regulatory & checking services to all their customers in Denmark.
Source: Paymentology
Closely following the expansion of its Middle East office, UK fintech cloud-payment processor, Paymentology has announced a similar focus on Singapore, with the appointment of Matt Bruton as the General Manager for the Asia Pacific region.
Source: Pintec
Pintec Technology Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: PT) (“Pintec” or the “Company”), a leading independent technology platform enabling financial services in China, today announced an update on its cooperation with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC” or the “Bank”). ICBC has adopted and implemented Pintec’s SME risk management solutions for its micro- and small-sized (“SME”) lending business, further enhancing the effectiveness of its lending services for SME clients.
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $150 million to settle a New York state regulator investigation into "significant" compliance failures in its relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as with two other banks.
New York's financial regulator is preparing to remove a number of regulatory hurdles impeding the development of cryptocurrency businesses in the US state.
Source: Mendix
Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in enterprise low-code, released a survey showing that, despite being one of the first sectors to embrace digitalisation, the financial services industry is still mired down with complex processes and inadequate tools that are hindering its growth.
