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.

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

For this episode of Future Identity Now, we were joined by Russ Cohn, General Manager of International at OCR Labs, to discuss online fraud, digital adoption and the future of embedded ID. We chatted about the increasing need for remote identity, exacerbated by COVID which impacted those businesses reliant on face-to-face customer verification. Russ emphasised

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

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

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

Identity exclusion is closely linked to socio-economic exclusion. Financial services and products are very often the starting point for establishing a digital identity, but not everyone has financial access. There are a number of reasons for this and it’s an issue that affects not only those in developing countries, but all across the world. Many

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

In recent years, the number of businesses and services operating online has skyrocketed. For online consumers, a key part of the appeal is convenience. Secure payments, ecommerce accounts, personalised product offerings and subscription services are all just a click away. To keep pace with consumers’ evolving expectations, businesses are turning their attention to removing the