Driving adoption of Digital Identity – FID Festival 2021
Tuesday 14 December 2021
With digitisation, comes changing user behaviour, increased risk, and an evolving regulatory landscape. The need for trusted digital identity is clear, but which factors will drive widespread adoption across different sectors? How can digital identity solutions gain user trust, by keeping in mind privacy, data protection and ease of use? Which solutions will gain support
Solve digital identity and close the backdoor to hackers
Tuesday 12 October 2021
Rod Boothby, Global Head of Identity at Santander, explores how the failure to verify every software developer’s digital identity, creates a backdoor for hackers, increasing the threat of ransomware and other cybersecurity risks. Most people do not know how modern software is built. People imagine a lone brilliant developer retreating into a dark room for
Biometrics in education supports the ‘new normal’
Tuesday 21 September 2021
Like virtually all parts of the economy, the education sector has undergone dramatic changes since the emergence of COVID. In-person teaching virtually disappeared, with online learning taking its place across the world. As schools, universities and colleges continue to put the health and welfare of students at the forefront, a blended learning approach is expected to remain popular. By utilising biometrics
The door to financial inclusion remains closed: Could Digital ID be the key?
Tuesday 31 August 2021
The door to financial inclusion remains closed: Could Digital ID be the key? Despite decades of financial inclusion efforts, barriers preventing access to financial services continue to exist across the globe. One such critical barrier, is the lack of an official, foundational form of identification. An estimated one billion people worldwide remain unable to prove their identity, while millions
Navigating the new normal with digital identity proofing
Monday 23 August 2021
Know-your-customer (KYC) checks have long been associated with high levels of customer friction. Traditionally, these assessments were largely carried out by financial institutions, conducting due diligence to safeguard against financial crime. Creating a seamless customer journey was not a priority in the design of legacy identity proofing systems. Until recently, customers looking to open up a bank account would expect to take paper-based documents into
- Published in Identity, Innovation, Regulations, Security
Digital patient identity in a pandemic era
Tuesday 10 August 2021
Virtually every industry has seen the global pandemic transform how they do business. Nowhere is this more evident than in healthcare. The emergence of COVID quickly led to in-person medical appointments moving to online video consultations, and all manner of routine healthcare needs migrating to digital platforms. A great deal of focus has been placed
The mutual benefits of technology in mortgages
Tuesday 03 August 2021
Building societies were created to help their members overcome one of the biggest financial challenges most of us will face: buying a home. Nearly a third of people in the UK have a mortgage from a building society. Building societies operate differently to lending banks. They are mutual organisations that are owned by their members,
- Published in Content, Fintech, Identity, Innovation, Opinion
Fintechs and AI – A smart move for building societies and credit unions
Tuesday 27 July 2021
Fintechs and AI – A Smart Move for Building Societies and Credit Unions There’s seemingly no end to the business applications of artificial intelligence. From fraud detection to forecasting sales and analysing consumer behaviour, AI has rapidly become a powerful tool for enterprises across the world. In recent years, building societies and credit unions have
Decentralised identity in banking – The chicken and the egg, or the hare and the tortoise?
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Designing digital identity to meet high levels of trust, while ensuring credentials are interoperable, portable and protect the holder’s personal data, is no easy task. Customers are becoming more and more aware of their online identities, they want security, data privacy and control. On many occasions, when verifying your identity online you are really verifying
- Published in Featured, Fintech, Identity, Innovation
10 Steps to GDPR Compliance: Part 4
Tuesday 18 May 2021
A warm welcome to the fourth blog in the series 10 Steps to GDPR Compliance. In each post, we cover two Steps to help you to become GDPR compliant. By following along and completing these 10 Steps, you’ll be building out the Privacy Framework that will power your ongoing Privacy Governance. This series is brought
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