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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Payments Playbook Series: AI in Payments

In the highly competitive payments space, where safety and efficiency tools are table stakes, financial institutions are increasingly employing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions....more

Woodruff Sawyer

Is the Roof on Fire? Data Privacy Risk in the Financial Services Industry

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Compliance is difficult, and litigation and enforcement risks are high for financial services companies. Navigating a Proustian rulebook, it’s impossible to get everything right all the time. Legal and compliance work in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB: Safeguard Consumer Data or Face Liability

The CFPB recently published a circular clarifying liability under consumer financial protection law for financial companies that fail to safeguard consumer data. The circular describes how firms may be violating the CFPA’s...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Circular: Safeguard Consumer Data or Face Liability

On August 11, the CFPB published a circular clarifying liability under consumer financial protection law for bank and nonbank financial companies that fail to safeguard consumer data. The circular describes how firms may be...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Financial Institutions Face Increasingly Stringent Federal Breach Reporting Requirements

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The last few months have seen a flurry of new federal cybersecurity incident reporting requirements and proposals impacting private entities in the financial sector. As the number and frequency of cyber attacks continue to...more

Blank Rome LLP

What Banks Need to Know About New Data Breach Notification Requirements

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Given the omnipresent concern about cyber attacks targeting the banking industry, the FDIC, OCC and Federal Reserve recently published a new joint final rule establishing enhanced security incident notification requirements...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Bank Regulators Approve New Cybersecurity Incident Notification Rule

Last month, the FDIC, Federal Reserve Board, and the OCC announced a final rule to improve information sharing about cyber incidents that may affect the U.S. banking system.  Among other things, the final rule requires...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Coalition of European Banks Calls for Model Cloud Services Terms

The European Cloud User Coalition (ECUC) published a paper (the Position Paper) on May 17 recommending, among other matters, the adoption of “model clauses” for the long-term compliant use of cloud technologies....more

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Fintech 2020: A Global Survey on the State of Financial Technology

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Letter from Our Co-Chairs - As the digital transformation of financial markets accelerates at breakneck speeds, fintech presents significant opportunities and challenges for both investors and innovators around the world. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

First Enforcement Action by New York Department of Financial Services Under Cybersecurity Regulation

On July 21, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) filed a “Statement of Charges and Notice of Hearing” (the “Charges”) against First American Title Insurance Company (the “Company”) alleging violations of...more

White and Williams LLP

Financial Services Firms Face New Cybersecurity Regulation

The close of 2019 witnessed a significant development in data security law that impacts companies engaged in the trading of public securities, as well as those companies that provide services to such organizations....more

BakerHostetler

Blockchain Developments: NY AG Issues Report, Major Japanese Exchange Hacked, Global Attitudes Diverge and Use Cases for Social...

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New York Attorney General Issues Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative Report - On Sept. 18, 2018, the New York Attorney General’s Office released its Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative Report. The report addressed 10 major...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Study Shows Banks Block 80% of Cyberattacks … But is that Enough?

In Accenture’s 2018 State of Cyber Resilience for Banking & Capital Markets study, the consulting firm reported the rate at which cyber-attacks on banking and capital markets firms are successful dropped from 36 percent in...more

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FBI Warns of Continuing Threat from “ATM Cashout” Scheme

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The FBI is warning banks to be on guard against possible attacks on ATMs. In an alert sent to banks on August 10th, the FBI warned banks that it had “obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

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Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

Jones Day

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

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On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Sony Cyber-Attackers Lurking at Financial Supervisor “Watering Hole” Target Banks and Others

Cybersecurity specialists at BAE Systems and Symantec announced last week new evidence suggesting that the criminals behind the notorious 2014 attack on Sony Corp. are also responsible for recent cyber-attacks involving 104...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Rock and a Hard Place: Banks In Search of Compliance Amid Diverging Regulatory Regimes

Last year was the first that national banks and federal savings associations subject to supervision by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) were armed with a sense of the agency’s regulatory expectations when...more

Hogan Lovells

2017 Resolutions for Community Banks: A Focus on Cybersecurity

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In December 2016, Thomas Curry, the Comptroller of the Currency, stated that cybersecurity was the single greatest systemic threat to our financial system. He was not being hyperbolic. Cybersecurity should be on...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Law Firms and Vendors Mandated to Up Their Cyber Game: Final Installment in a 3-Part Series

This is our final installment in a three-part series examining the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) new cybersecurity regulation.  In this installment, we provide an overview of the regulation’s impact...more

Snell & Wilmer

Cybersecurity Requirements Proposed for New York Financial Companies

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The New York Department of Financial Services has proposed new cybersecurity regulations “designed to promote the protection of customer information as well as the information technology systems of regulated entities...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Feds Propose Enhanced Cyber Standards for Nation’s Largest Banks and Their Boards

Bank regulators are continuing to demand more accountability from corporate leaders when it comes to compliance with cybersecurity safeguards. In an advance notice of proposed rulemaking issued yesterday, federal...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FFIEC Provides Concrete Guidance on Setting Up Information Security Programs

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The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)—the interagency body tasked with setting uniform principals and standards for the examination of financial institutions by federal prudential regulators,...more

King & Spalding

FDIC Issues Customer Cybersecurity Guidance

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On March 8, 2016, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) released a special edition of its FDIC Consumer News publication series covering cybersecurity issues impacting banking customers (“Cybersecurity Release”)....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Cybersecurity: What You Must Know and What You Must Do

On February 1, 2016, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) published the Winter 2015 issue of Supervisory Insights. Not surprisingly, the first article dealt with the most important issue facing the financial...more

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