Spotlight Europe: At the end of the beginning? Where are we with open finance?
Tuesday 27 September 2022
Few innovations have made as big an impact as open banking has across the financial ecosystem in recent years. Thanks to the use of open application programming interfaces (APIs), a comprehensive framework that enables third-party developers to build applications has been created. A range of consumer banking details can be shared, with consent, to unlock
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Privacy, security & UX: The digital identity trilema
Tuesday 20 September 2022
Ahead of this year’s Future Identity Festival, Laura Camplisson sat down with Fabian Eberle to discuss how digital identity has evolved in the past year, and what’s next for the sector. Fabian is Co-Founder and COO of Festival sponsor Keyless, a passwordless authentication company pioneering privacy preserving biometric authentication, based on a combination of biometrics,
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Overcoming crypto’s trust issues: An interview with Diederik Van Wersch, Chainalysis
Tuesday 20 September 2022
Despite rapid growth in recent years, the crypto industry has historically faced a lack of trust from consumers and established financial entities. Blockchain data analysis firm Chainalysis, is looking to change this. In an interview at FTT DeFi, Diederik Van Wersch, Head of Mid-Market Sales EMEA at Chainalysis, told Future Identity Portfolio Lead, Laura Camplisson,
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Powering the future of work with employee digital ID
Tuesday 06 September 2022
The COVID pandemic sped up the shift to digital solutions across many areas of the global economy. As in-person interaction moved online and remote working became the norm, a number of areas of identity verification also transitioned to digital. Businesses increasingly turned their attention towards the benefits of employee digital ID. Right to work checks
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Identity and security in a social media driven world
Tuesday 02 August 2022
For billions of people around the world, social media platforms have become an essential part of daily life. From keeping up with the latest news to messaging friends, services like Facebook and Twitter have rapidly grown to be some of the most visited websites in the world. Just as the number of users has increased,
Open finance, open data, open identity
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Open finance, open data, open identity. The idea that consumers should be able to access, manage and trace their personal information without delay, is gaining traction. At Future Identity North America, we were joined by a panel of experts actively working to standardise and advance open banking across the region. If implemented effectively open banking
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Winners, losers & fraudsters: Identity verification for online gaming
Tuesday 21 June 2022
Winners, losers and fraudsters – Identity verification for online gaming Already rapidly growing sectors, digital gambling platforms and online gaming sites exploded in popularity during the height of the COVID pandemic, as many people stuck at home turned to these sites for entertainment. According to market research firm Statista, the global online gambling market alone
Do rising hacks threaten the future of DeFi?
Tuesday 14 June 2022
With hundreds of billions of dollars of total value locked into the decentralised finance (DeFi) market, this burgeoning sector is rapidly becoming an attractive target for cyber criminals and hackers. According to a CertiK State of DeFi Security Report released earlier this year, more than $1.3 billion was lost across 44 DeFi hacks due to centralisation
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Remote identity verification is shaping the future now
Tuesday 24 May 2022
On 26th April at Future Identity Finance, Laura Camplisson, our Future Identity Portfolio Lead, sat down with Daniel Ferak, DOT Business Unit Director at Innovatrics, to discuss the most exciting trends and technologies shaping the future of identity verification for financial services. Innovatrics are an EU-based provider of trusted biometrics solutions to governments, enterprises, and
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The High Cost of Cheap Biometrics
Tuesday 24 May 2022
The high cost of cheap biometrics Banks and financial institutions are spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting a vendor in the remote identity verification industry. Once dominated by a handful of established firms, the sector has rapidly grown as a direct result of the pandemic increasing demand for a range of digital services.
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