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Eduardo Castro Head of Identity and Fraud at Experian
Romance scams are an especially cruel way to dupe a victim. Gaining their trust and fooling them into thinking they’re romantically involved, before exploiting that trust and using their personal information to take out borrowing in their name – or simply getting them to transfer cash – is particularly heartless. But the scams are not just a cons...
13 February 2023 /identity /crime
Nick Mothershaw Chief Identity Strategist at Open Identity Exchange (OIX)
For banking and financial services across the globe that embrace digital ID, the benefits will be vast. The digital ID ecosystem to enable this now exists and is rapidly expanding. Offerings are emerging around the globe that allow financial services firms to access digital IDs from a range of suppliers – spearheaded in the UK, for example, by tra...
17 January 2023 /inclusion /identity
Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa
With inflation hovering at around ten per cent, triggered largely by the growth in energy prices due to the conflict in Ukraine, costs for many financial institutions are spiralling at a rapid rate. It’s leaving many worried about remaining competitive in the future as they contemplate price rises for products and services. Those in financial ser...
16 January 2023 /retail /identity
The cost of living crisis, combined with an increase in digitalisation of services and remote working at a time of great volatility in the world, has created new motives and justification for fraud to flourish. In fact, the current turmoil has fed into the three elements of the fraud triangle: motivation, opportunity and rationalisation. As a resu...
26 October 2022 /regulation /identity
The war in Ukraine has triggered a proliferation in sanctions against leading politicians, businesspeople and entities in both Russia and Belarus. It has left many in financial services struggling to keep up with the large number of sanctions announced by the territories they operate in, which they are legally required to adhere to. Failing to prop...
12 September 2022 /regulation /identity
Chris Lewis Head of Solutions at Synectics Solutions
Identity verification. Two small words that can throw up some big barriers. Justifiably so, given that the purpose of checking ID is to make sure that the right people get access to the right things. And that the wrong people, don’t. But what if the right people are denied access? What if a person is in real need of a loan to make their business pl...
29 June 2022 /inclusion /identity
Martin Wilson Chief Executive Officer at OneID
The Online Safety Bill is a landmark piece of legislation designed to lay down in law a set of rules about how online platforms should behave to better protect their customers and users. It aims to: prevent the spread of illegal content and activity such as images of child abuse, terrorist material and hate crimes, including racist abuse protec...
06 May 2022 /regulation /identity
The UK government recently announced that Deloitte had won a new £9m contract, having previously won a £4.8m deal, for work on One Login, which largely slipped under the radar. One Login, aims to provide a single identity for users of all online government services and this type of digital identity system is badly needed. Currently, around half of...
19 April 2022 /identity
Address verification is often viewed simply as a practice that improves the accuracy of direct mail. However, it offers much more than that to the financial services industry that’s facing a number of challenges in 2022. Improve the customer experience and reduce cost with communications The financial services industry is a major user of direct mai...
14 December 2021 /regulation /identity
Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)
A Centralised & Digitised Know your Customer ecosystem is quite beneficial in the new age digital economy. It helps quickly onboard customers and avoids duplicates w.r.t submission of documents. That is not all, it helps reduce acquisition costs and improves compliance. In the long term, it also helps in making KYC truly effective and rationali...
05 October 2021 /regulation /identity
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