On 26th April our community of identity industry leaders, including financial institutions, policymakers, technology enablers and consumer facing businesses gathered at Future Identity Finance. We explored how innovation, regulation and customer expectations are changing the way we identify ourselves to access financial services.  During the event, Laura Camplisson, our Future Identity Portfolio Lead, caught up

At the Future Identity and Fintech Talents festival 2021, we interviewed Ravneet Shah, Vice President of Engineering at Allica Bank, a data driven bank focused on the SME market. Ravneet shared her thoughts on why self-sovereign and decentralised identity might bring about the next revolution within the UK financial market. She also gave us a

When it comes to digital identity, technology is not the problem. The necessary architectures and solutions are already being built but the surrounding frameworks and legal elements remain to be solved. How can we build a digital identity ecosystem, centred around users? And which parties will play a role in the future identity ecosystem? At

When it comes to digital identity, we talk a lot about cybersecurity, online avatars, and cryptographic credentials… It can sometimes be easy to overlook something crucial, that fundamentally a digital identity is attached to a human being. At the Future Identity and Fintech Talents festival, sessions explored in depth how to make the digital world a

Identity today is a key security concern for businesses of all sizes, across all sectors. By going digital with identity, businesses can offer their customers a more compelling experience, and gain a competitive edge. The challenge is to integrate innovative verification and authentication tools into existing architectures, without compromising security. At the Future Identity and

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

Laura Camplisson, Future Identity Portfolio lead, explores the growing demand for age verification technology, to protect consumers and businesses in an online world. __________________________________________________________________ As an adult, it is likely that you remember having lied about your age at least once as a teenager.  Maybe you were the last of your friends to turn 18, so you nabbed an older siblings ID

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

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