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Niall Twomey

Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo

The Role of Blockchain and DLT in e-KYC Utilities

In this nascent market, organizations are exploring the speed and accuracy of DLT and the enhanced security of Blockchain. In this blog, I take a look at the DLT and blockchain technologies that can make decentralization and sharing of quality data a reality for e-KYC utilities. When we explore the bank-driven approach to KYC customer record shari...

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Niall Twomey

Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo

6 Reasons to Connect to e-KYC Utilities

Over the last three blogs in this series, we’ve analyzed the need for e-KYC utilities to solve the current KYC challenge. We’ve examined the need to learn from previous KYC utility attempts and explored the role of distributed ledger and blockchain technologies to achieve a coveted decentralized approach to KYC utilities. In this final blog, we lo...

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Niall Twomey

Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo

KYC Utilities: The Second Coming, Learning from Past Failures

In the previous blog, I examined the current compliance challenge and how e-KYC utilities can solve the age-old challenges of collection, validation and processing of customer data and documentation. In this blog, I look at the KYC utility models of the past and the three key learnings we can take from these experiments for the second coming of e-...

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Niall Twomey

Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo

Can e-KYC Utilities Solve the Compliance Challenge?

The global financial services sector continues to be rocked by a series of regulatory fines and money-laundering scandals, totaling more than US$36 billion in fines over the past decade. In the first of a new series, I explore the key KYC challenges facing financial institutions across the world and the increasing adoption of digital KYC and e-KYC ...

/regulation /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Niall Twomey

Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo

8 Major Benefits of Cloud Technology for Client Lifecycle Management

Cloud technology has developed and evolved in line with the myths that surround it. Up until 15 months ago, banks were publicly reticent about moving core banking services to the cloud for a myriad of regulatory and security concerns, including issues over confidentiality of data, lack of control of data, data breaches, and legal and compliance is...

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Niall Twomey

Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo

Navigating Data Residency and Privacy Compliance in the Cloud

Security and data security concerns have traditionally topped the list of issues for lack of adoption of cloud technologies by banks. Security and data security concerns have traditionally topped the list of issues for lack of adoption of cloud technologies by banks. In a survey conducted by Forrester Research a few years ago, it found that the top...

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