Compliance

The omnibus legislation includes two measures that affect the banking industry: a cyber incident reporting requirement and Libor transition fix.

The data aggregator and challenger bank have formed a partnership to let customers of Green Dot’s mobile banking app use any of the 6,000 fintech apps in Plaid’s ecosystem.

Lake Shore Savings Bank said in a regulatory filing that during the incident, employees temporarily lost access to internal systems and data. It is one of several financial institutions that have disclosed cybersecurity attacks in 2022.

European banks operating in Russia are preparing to separate those business from their main computer systems to reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks following the invasion of Ukraine.

Several large banks are being investigated for employees’ use of unmonitored messaging software, despite prohibitions that have been in place for years.

The bill, part of the omnibus spending package, would force banks and other critical infrastructure providers to tell the government right away when they’ve been breached.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported a spike in troubled assets, suggesting a fairly large bank may be under heightened scrutiny. But confidentiality rules make it impossible to confirm any details.

The legislation by Sens. Rob Portman and Gary Peters has bankers worried about burdensome reporting requirements.

Early Warning Services, which operates the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network, is working to educate consumers about common scams, but it faces criticism over how its banks respond to victims.

The hacker group is threatening to publish personal data from multiple U.S. financial institutions and using known vulnerabilities to get into their systems.