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Clare Rowley

How the LEI Can Help Financial Institutions ‘Address’ a Growing Challenge in ISO 20022

Addresses are foundational to the global economy. As noted by the Universal Postal Union, "addresses form an important part of the basic information needed to ensure communication (both digital a...

28 Sep 2023
Barley Laing

Time to evolve your approach to know your business (KYB) checks

Fraud, whether by an individual or a business, is on the increase. This is largely due to many banking services being accessible online – a convenience that comes with some risk. To help prevent fraud...

26 Sep 2023
Digital Identity Management
Clare Rowley

Understanding the Value of Global Identifiers in the Fight Against Financial Crime

Money laundering and terrorist financing create significant systemic risks in the global financial system. The intricate webs spun by fraudsters and criminals to evade detection crisscross national bo...

08 Sep 2023
Digital Identity Management
Ivan Heard

Weathering the Storm: The Crucial Role of a Chief Risk Officer

If you want to understand why something has gone wrong in a financial organization, the best person to start with is most typically the Chief Risk Officer (CRO). A CRO plays a critical role as an orga...

08 Aug 2023
Fintech
Bo Harald

Our sacred mission

Our sacred trust infrastructure mission the incoming autumn will be to: 1. Make it crystal clear to all organisations (especially the in the public and SMEsectors) and most citizens how immensely ser...

07 Aug 2023
Innovation in Financial Services
Liudas Kanapienis

How can telcos ensure regulatory compliance across multiple AML and KYC jurisdictions?

Besides the technical challenges they face protecting their customers from digital risks, telcos also have a big job on their hands when it comes to maintaining regulatory compliance.l AML (Anti-Mone...

07 Aug 2023
Biometrics
Hrefna Sigfinnsdottir

The evolution of KYC: how can financial institutions leverage data to bolster KYC processes?

KYC – Know Your Customer – is about understanding who your customer is and if they are who they claim to be. However, as simple as this sounds, the process and information required to reach that judge...

31 Jul 2023
Banking and Lending Solutions
Nick Mothershaw

The power of mobile telco data in the digital ID proofing process

Our research last year revealed that at least six million people in the UK are ‘ID Challenged’. This means that they struggle to prove who they are in order to access the products and services they ar...

27 Jul 2023
Digital Identity Management
A Finextra Member

PEPs and Sanctions lists are not set in stone

In the UK, fraud has become a significant concern, to the point where it has been reclassified as a threat to national security, elevating its status to that of terrorism. This highlights the importa...

20 Jul 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Adam Preis

Mitigating the Risk of Fraud by Enabling Customers to Never Log In Again

FinTech and banking applications are accessed every day by millions of consumers around the world, and passwords remain the primary method of authenticating users into the service. Yet, they are inher...

17 Jul 2023
Banking
Barley Laing

How SaaS is leading the way in cleaning customer data and delivering ID checks

Speeding up business processes and tasks is something evolving software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been instrumental in delivering. Today, as SaaS reaches maturity, it offers great value to those in fina...

14 Jul 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Grant MacDonald

The three key characteristics to detect money launderers in the financial sector

The growing complexity of the financial sector is creating new opportunities for money launderers. As a result, it is essential that financial institutions are equipped with the appropriate knowledge ...

20 Jun 2023
Banking

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