Matthew M. Speare

Executive Vice President & Enterprise CIO, Regions Bank

Speare joined Regions in 2013 and serves as the head of governance and integration. Regions is a top U.S. bank-holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with $117 billion in assets, operating approximately 1,700 banking offices in 16 states. In this role, Speare has responsibility for information security; check, ATM/debit, and credit card fraud operations; and systems integration for consumer, business and commercial banking groups. Prior to assuming his current role in 2013, Speare was the chief technology officer for M&T Bank, an $82 billion financial institution based out of Buffalo, N.Y.

2014 Faces of Fraud

Presented by Daniel Ingevaldson , David Pollino , Matthew M. Speare • May 13, 2014

Fraud Summit - Chicago 2014 - As the Target and Neiman Marcus incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging...

Fighting Fraud: A Live Q&A with Matthew Speare of M&T Bank

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • August 2, 2013

How is one of the nation's top 20 bank holding companies fighting fraud? Find out directly from Matthew Speare, Senior Vice President of Information Technology for M&T Bank Corporation, as he spends an hour taking your questions about a variety of banking fraud topics, including: Account takeover trends and the...

The New Wave of DDoS Attacks: How to Prepare and Respond

Presented by Rodney Joffe , Stephen Mulhearn , Michael Smith , Matthew M. Speare • November 19, 2012

What will you do if your organization is the next target of a distributed denial of service attack? Hacktivists recently launched DDoS attacks that caused online outages at several major U.S. banks. Each institution was warned in advance; none were able to prevent disruptions. And while banks are the current targets,...

2012 Faces of Fraud Survey: Complying with the FFIEC Guidance

Presented by Tom Field , Matthew M. Speare , George Tubin • March 19, 2012

The FFIEC Authentication Guidance update has been in circulation since mid-2011. But as banking examiners begin testing for conformance, we find: Only 11% of surveyed institutions have come into conformance since the guidance was issued; Nearly 30% don't fully understand the guidance; 88% do not believe the...

FFIEC Guidance: How to Use Layered Security to Fight Fraud

Presented by Mark Benoit , Alisdair Faulkner , Michael Smith , Matthew M. Speare • September 6, 2011

Layered security is one of the core tenets of the new FFIEC Authentication Guidance - and it's perhaps the most effective strategy for detecting and preventing banking fraud schemes. But what are some of today's most mature approaches to layered security, and how are banking institutions employing them to detect and...

Social Networking: Is Your Institution Ready for the Risks?

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • August 19, 2009

Social networking isn't coming to banking; it's here. Your core processors have Facebook-ready applications to deploy, and you likely already are marketing your services via Twitter and LinkedIn, or will be soon. But take a step back: Are your employees adhering to your social networking policy? Do you even have a...

Incident Response: How to React to Payment Card Fraud

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • August 19, 2009

As TJX, Hannaford and Heartland have taught us, incident response isn't just about reacting to your own institution's security breaches - it's about what happens when your card processors, merchants and vendors are compromised. Register for this session for insight on: How to immediately respond to a payment...

Securing Your Email Infrastructure

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • June 8, 2009

Electronic communication is at the heart of every organization, but one compromised e-mail can damage your corporate brand, compromise intellectual property or put you in non-compliance with laws and industry regulations. Privacy concerns, regulatory compliance, and corporate guidelines all need to be factored into...

Assessing Encryption Standards for Financial Institutions

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • March 3, 2009

Critics of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach have called out for tougher encryption standards for financial institutions and their third-party service providers. Applications for encryption are all around us from encrypting email traffic to board communications, remote access and mobile & Internet banking....

Business Impact Analysis - How to Get It Right

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • July 14, 2008

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is an integral part of developing a Business Continuity Plan for any type of disaster, and the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has released recent guidance about enhancements to the BIA and testing discussions. According to the latest update to the FFIEC's...

Incident Response Essentials: Regulatory Compliance, Vendor Management and Customer Communication

Presented by Matthew M. Speare • April 4, 2008

What happens if your institution suffers an ATM skimming attack and customer accounts have been compromised? Or if a payments processor is hacked and thousands of your credit/debit cardholders are potentially exposed to fraud? These aren't hypothetical breaches; they've occurred. Repeatedly. And they prove that an...

Investigations, Computer Forensics and e-Discovery - A Primer for Every Banking Institution

Presented by Warren G. Kruse , Matthew M. Speare • December 13, 2007

Forensics has become a hot topic for a variety of internal factors, including the importance of the Internet to everyday business and, with it, the rise of electronic fraud. Externally, financial institutions especially feel regulatory heat in the form of FFIEC GLBA Notification Rule, SEC/NASD Rule 3010 and even he...