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Capital One’s data breach was bad. It could’ve been worse

07/30/19

Though involving an eye-popping 106 million credit card applicants' information, Capital One's breach was also unusual in a number of ways, including that it was quickly caught through a responsible disclosure program run by the bank.

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Can an exec from Amazon reboot Simple?

11/14/18

The online-only bank hopes new leadership can help it overcome its rocky past three years.

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Even in the cloud, banking is tied to legacy tech

11/02/18

Serverless computing has its proponents — Capital One and BBVA among them — but the service hasn’t yet proven it can fulfill general systems needs in banking.

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What banks can do to avoid drowning in data

05/11/18

It can be difficult for financial services companies to glean customer insights from the abundance of information they have.

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Fears mount about Meltdown, Spectre threats to cloud computing

01/12/18

Bankers could see higher costs as cloud computing vendors struggle to protect their systems from the latest hacking vulnerabilities.

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Silicon Valley 'systemically important,' World Economic Forum says

08/22/17

Financial institutions increasingly depend on large tech companies such as Google and Apple for infrastructure, said the group that runs the Davos conference, stopping well short of recommending regulatory changes.

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