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UK Managing Director

Melissa

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28 Jan 2019

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Barley's role is focused on ensuring clients meet their customer onboarding, data quality and compliance needs; including their ID, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. He and his team at Melissa work with the likes of Bank of America, Creditsafe and MetaBank.

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Five data-driven tactics to ensure financial regulatory compliance worldwide

Overwhelmed is a word many professionals in financial services use as they scramble to stay compliant with the vast array of global regulations aimed at preventing financial crime and fraud. What’s the answer? Step 1: Collect high-quality, verified contact data Having access to quality customer data is key to achieving financial compliance with gl...

20 October 2025 Banking Regulations

How to prevent synthetic identity fraud before it strikes

Increasingly sophisticated fraud is on the rise. One of the fastest growing is synthetic identity fraud (SIF), which sees criminals creating new, false identities using a combination of real, stolen and fake data - such as birthdates and addresses - which they then use to defraud those in financial services. AI-powered tools are accelerating this ...

12 September 2025 Digital Identity Management

Leverage mobile ID verification for KYC / AML compliance and global growth

With around five billion people in the world having access to a smartphone, out of a global population of just over eight billion, a mobile number is quickly becoming a vital part of the identity verification process in KYC and AML compliance, and in the fight against fraud. Traditionally, matching a name to an address has been and continues to be...

11 August 2025 Digital Identity Management

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