It's all anyone wants to talk about.
In the wake of Washington Mutual's historic failure last week and the Wachovia takeover today, all anyone wants to discuss is the enormity of these events what they mean to the banking industry.
This time the news was so big it couldn't even wait til Friday.
Up to this point, as you know, whenever the FDIC has closed a bank this year, it's waited til after markets have closed for the week - let things settle over the weekend, and then the failed bank can reopen under its new flag on Monday.
But...
The second conspirator/hacker in the biggest hacking case ever has been convicted of conspiring to electronically break into computer networks, steal credit and debit card information and sell it. He faces up to 22 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Christopher Scott pled guilty to conspiracy, access device...
Last week, amid all the flurry of news about the nation's stock market and investment banks, a small federal credit union in East Orange, N.J., was closed by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). Its closure brings the total to 10 credit unions closed this year - up from two in 2007. The FDIC lists 12 banks...
It was another frantic weekend in the financial services industry, as one bank closed, two financial giants were reborn, and the Bush Administration proposed a historic $700 billion bailout plan for troubled institutions.
Financial markets had just begun to settle a bit after last week's dramatic events on Wall...
Following one of those most challenging weeks in history, financial services workers - particularly those employed at imperiled companies such as Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers -- are struggling to come to terms with their uncertain futures.
We caught up with Jennifer Bayuk, former CISO at Bear Stearns & Co.,...
Hurricane Gustav may have hit the state of Louisiana with a broad swipe of rain and high winds, but one bank was ready for whatever it had in store.
BancorpSouth, ($13 billion assets, [BSX: NYSE]), employs more than 3,900 people in about 290 commercial banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and broker-dealer locations...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, one of the largest hurricanes on record, the brunt of the forceful storm that struck the Texas Gulf coast is still being absorbed. With an estimated 52 people dead and damages still being assessed across Gulf coast areas of Texas, Louisiana and other states, Texas Banking...
I have issues with weak passwords and easy to guess answers for challenge questions on password resets. This was Sarah Palin's (Republican vice presidential candidate)apparent problem with her personal Yahoo! email account. It only took a Google search and some thought on a young hacker's part to find out the...
You know someone. Out of millions of Merrill Lynch customers, you should know at least one. Combine Bank of America's many more millions of banking customers, and you have to know someone. I know quite a few myself. All of these people are waiting to be absorbed into what is ultimately a new regime. This state of...
There were two crashes heard within the banking industry on Monday.
One was the stock market, which suffered its biggest drop since the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2001 - the Dow Jones industrial average alone lost 504 points, or 4.4%. The Nasdaq composite lost 3.6%.
But the second crash may have been...
Anti-money laundering has been one of the dominant stories in financial services this year, and the trend isn't likely to abate anytime soon.
In this exclusive interview, attorney and AML expert Ross Delston discusses:
The latest AML trends, including Trade-Based Money Laundering;
How institutions are...
I can't say enough about the mud slinging and finger pointing being done during the continuing mortgage crisis. It is getting ugly out there. Even the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now under the watchful conservatorship eye of the federal regulators, as the mortgage foreclosures top...
Career opportunities abound for people interested in entering information security as an entry-level or mid-career position.
In this exclusive interview, Matt Bishop, Professor of Computer Science at UC-Davis, discusses:
His current projects, including vulnerability analysis and the insider threat;...
Sahba Kazerooni is a senior security consultant with Security Compass, a security consulting and training firm specializing in application security based in New Jersey. He is also an internationally-renowned speaker on security topics, and has provided presentations at security conferences around the world, including...
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