The customer as the nucleus of a complex cellular structure
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Financial crime prevention provider, Quantexa makes sure they always look to the bigger picture in order to correctly assess the level of risk. Who is Quantexa – what problem are you solving? Ultimately, we are focussed on helping Financial Institutions to better detect Financial Crime & Fraud; whilst also empowering our customers to make better decisions around
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Catching crimes before they happen
Tuesday 29 October 2019
While AML-focused FinTech, Sedicii wear their passion on their sleeve for everyone to see, their identity and security solutions tackle issues such as money laundering without exposure to any private customer data. What is Sedicii – what problem are you solving? We provide real-time verification of identity and real time collaborative monitoring for AML with a strong
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PAD is not enough… Biometric security needs RAD
Tuesday 17 September 2019
A thought provoking blog post from Gabriel Turner, Product Manager, iProov. Presentation Attack Detection or “PAD” is increasingly a hot topic within the biometrics industry. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, cyber-thieves are still diligently exploiting security gaps in identity proofing and strong customer authentication. Exclusive focus on presentation attacks alone
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Automating the verification process
Tuesday 10 September 2019
Verifying who you are doing business with has become more challenging. 123signed was developed to fully automate the entire verification process of KYC via a simple single integration, accessing numerous global KYC databases. What is 123signed – what problem are you solving? 123signed is automating the very complex environment of corporate and consumer onboarding and
- Published in Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, Security, Start-ups
Does your bank have an ethical data culture?
Tuesday 03 September 2019
Our friends from Sensibill made you a flowchart to find out. Thanks to Silicon Valley, we have plenty of examples of what it means to not have an ethical data culture. Uber’s “God View”; Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal; Google’s hacked Nest cams. And while hefty fines and public outcries are helping drive some change, it’s
- Published in Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, Identity, Innovation, Regulations, Risk, Security, Start-ups
Do you trust who I am?
Wednesday 03 July 2019
Powered by naturally sweetened cola and a passion for creating comfort for the end user, iProov aims to offer secure and simple solutions for online identity. In a world of manipulated photos and masks, deep fake video and replay attacks iProov is trying bring back a level of trust in the digital world. What is iProov –
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You need your ‘Tech’ in your ‘Fin’ (even if you don’t have to say it) Our community has spoken
Wednesday 29 May 2019
There is some debate over when the word ‘FinTech’ first came into use. I remember it being used in my New York office in the mid 1990s as a shortened, pre-hashtag, version of Financial Technology, there is evidence of a Sunday Times column from Peter Ridder that was called ‘FinTech’ in the mid 1980s, and
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Do we still need ‘FinTech’?
Wednesday 22 May 2019
At last week’s FinTECH4Life event Vica Manos, managing director at Anthemis Group commented that they do not use the term ‘FinTech’ inside their venture capital operation. “We say Financial Services and the tech is assumed,” she said. The reasons behind this decision in terminology is because our industry often has disparate and differing opinions on
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FusionOne Hackathon
Wednesday 15 May 2019
FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft and Accenture are running our first Open Banking hackathon this weekend 17-19 of May. Finastra will be opening-up the data from multiple APIs (retail banking, payment, corporate banking, capital markets…), that you can check here: FusionFabric.cloud API catalog and we will have mentors on-site from FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft, Accenture and others, including machine
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Working together to tackle fraud
Wednesday 20 March 2019
An audience member stood up to ask a question of the opening panel of the PowerCARD User Conference organised by HPS in Marrakesh last week. The panel, which featured Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, CEO of HPS, and Jeroen Holscher, head of global payments practice, Capgemini, focused on new trends in the payments arena. The talk touched
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