Countdown to the Future Identity Festival – Matt Wilson, Ekata
Tuesday 02 November 2021
The Future Identity festival will take to the stage at The Brewery, London, on November 15th & 16th. In preparation for the event we caught up with Matt Wilson, Senior Enterprise Account Executive at festival sponsor, Ekata. Matt explored some of the reasons why we are seeing an increase in synthetic identity and account takeover fraud.
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Deepfakes of the dead: A spooky threat to financial services
Tuesday 02 November 2021
In the spirit of Halloween, here’s the spooky tale of the deepfakes capable of raising the dead… OK, maybe not literally. But, using deepfake technology, a company called MyHeritage allows visitors to upload a photograph of deceased family members, which can then be animated into video. The company says that it’s intended “for nostalgic use…to bring
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Fighting money laundering with face biometric verification
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Fighting money laundering with face biometric verification The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wrote an open letter in May 2021, to retail banking chief executives in the UK. It raised concerns surrounding weak financial crime controls and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance in the sector. UK retail banks were mandated to analyze, identify, and resolve issues around “common control
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“Login”: The internet’s largest unsolved problem
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Rod Boothby, Santander’s Global Head of Identity and co-chair of the Open Digital Trust Initiative at the Institute of International Finance (IIF), explores what the number of people taking to search engines to ask how to “Login”, reveals about the challenge of online identity. Identity is the largest unsolved problem on the Internet. How do
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5 Methods of Remote Authentication
Tuesday 12 October 2021
A wide variety of methods are available to authenticate users remotely, ranging from passwords and one-time passcodes (OTPs), to fingerprint scanning and face authentication. Each relies on a different factor to establish trust: Something you know (like passwords) Something you have (using your phone for OTPs) Something you are (biometrics, such as your face). In recent
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What’s the latest on strong customer authentication?
Tuesday 06 July 2021
At FTT Identity 2021, we were joined by a panel of experts from Starling Bank and the Payment Systems Regulator in the UK, and FIDO Alliance and Capital One in the US. They discussed the latest initiatives, policies, technologies and demands driving strong customer authentication. It was very interesting to compare the commonalities and differences
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The rapidly evolving world of digital identity – FTT Chats ep 49
Tuesday 09 March 2021
For this episode of FTT Chats we are joined by Andrew Bud, Chief Executive Officer at iProov to discuss the growing global demand for services enabling the online creation and authentication of user identities. We chatted about the need for strong protection against attacks on face verification, as well as the need to consider ease
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Will banks take the lead in a global identity ecosystem?
Tuesday 02 March 2021
In today’s world the need for trusted, secure & seamless digital identity solutions is something most organisations can no longer ignore. As physical becomes digital, citizens, consumers and employees, are carrying out a growing number of complex interactions and transactions. On more and more occasions individuals must prove their identity digitally, when engaging with service
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Space, selfies and deepfake Tom Cruise – FTT bookmark issue 6
Tuesday 02 March 2021
Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around FinTech. Our job at FinTech Talents is to work within that global story – finding the news items, conventional wisdoms and hard
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Digital Identity: The Missing Piece of the FinTech Puzzle?
Tuesday 26 January 2021
In today’s increasingly digital, experience-driven financial landscape, one of the major challenges facing any financial institution is how to be certain of a customer’s identity. Accurately, securely and seamlessly, while meeting evolving regulation. As transactions grow in volume and complexity, customers expect ever more streamlined experiences, regulators demand greater insights, and the risk of identity
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