Bangladesh Bank taps Fime to launch domestic card scheme
The six-year partnership will see Fime help the central bank establish an independent payment infrastructure.
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Swift supports Bangladesh Bank network rebuild after 2016 cyberattack
They seem to have got over their quarrel about who was to blame.
Bangladesh Bank heist probe report suffers mother of all delays
25 delays to be precise.
Cash back after Bangladesh Bank cyber hack
Bangladesh’s central bank is hoping to get back $30 million more of the $81 million stolen from its account at the New York Federal Reserve in February, according to Reuters. As Banking Technology reported earlier this year, Bangladesh Bank said a total of $101 million was “wrongly transmitted”, of which $20 million went to a […]
Rizal Commercial Banking Corp fined $21m over cybersecurity failings
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Philippines’ central bank, has issued a PHP 1 billion ($21 million) fine to Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) for cybersecurity failings. RCBC was used by cyber criminals to channel $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank earlier this year. According to BSP, the fine was “the largest amount it has […]
Typo spells confusion in $101m cyber bank heist
A $101 million cyber heist has central bank officials from Bangladesh to New York quarrelling over what may be one of the biggest and boldest bank raids in history, according to CNBC. Hackers allegedly breached the Bangladesh central bank’s security system and then pretended to be Bangladeshi officials to send a series of requests for […]
