Latest Identity News: Finextra Research

Regulators and politicians respond to Facebook's crypto plans

Regulators, politicians and other crypto players have all responded to yesterday's unveiling of Facebook's Libra project and suggested that the social media giant's digital currency plans may face several challenges.

19 June 2019

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BoE issues cyber attack warning

Banks would struggle to defend themselves against a state-sponsored cyber attack that corrupted their records over a period of months, according to a Bank of England (BoE) official.

19 June 2019

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Facebook reveals digital wallet plan

Social media platform Facebook has unveiled further details of its much-anticipated digital currency offering, which it hopes will transform financial services.

18 June 2019

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Nordic banks to cut compliance staff in favour of robots

Two of the Nordics' biggest banks, Nordea and Danske Bank, expect to significantly reduce the number of staff employed in its compliance and financial crime departments and instead turn to robotics and artificial intelligence.

17 June 2019

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Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: Rabobank’s Nico Strauss and Signicat’s John Erik Setsaas

Following their panel on why KYC is seen as a necessary evil, Finextra spoke to Nico Strauss, Tribe Lead B2B services at Rabobank and John Erik Setsaas, VP of Identity and Innovation at Signicat about how KYC could be used for social good, why digital identity is crucial for vulnerable groups like migrants and the impact of PSD2.

12 June 2019

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Money 20/20 Europe 2019: The interplay of AI, cloud, blockchain and quantum computing

On the final day of Money 20/20 Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, Jesse McWaters, financial innovation lead at the World Economic Forum starts the day discussing the interplay of AI, cloud, blockchain and quantum computing, and what happens when it all collides.

05 June 2019

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Payment firms raise fears over EU security rules

A lack of preparedness for the EU's new regulations on authentication could cost Europe's online economy more than €50bn according to a number of payment processors and e-commerce merchants.

04 June 2019

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Canadian bank-backed blockchain-based ID verification system launches

A Canadian blockchain-based digital identity verification network backed by the country's banking industry has gone live, giving people an easy way to share their personal information.

01 May 2019

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Nordic Capital acquires digital identity and oboarding pioneer Signicat

Nordic Capital has acquired Norwegian digital identity outfit Signicat with the objective of expanding its ID assurance and digital onboarding toolbox into new international markets.

11 April 2019

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Banks have been the catalyst for Nordic digital identity success

In conversation with Finextra Research, Arkwright’s Frank Wunderlich and Signicat’s John Erik Setsaas discuss their new report which highlights how the Nordic region can now act as a blueprint for digital identity success and how banks are crucial for this positive result.

09 April 2019

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Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: Dave Birch on introducing a financial services passport

Dave Birch, global ambassador for Consult Hyperion, gives his thoughts on the idea of banks entering the digital identity space.

29 March 2019

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Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: Onfido’s Husayn Kassai on fixing identity services

Husayn Kassai, CEO and co-founder of Onfido, spoke to Finextra Research at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore about the broken identity verification process, the role of machine learning in this space and the benefits of a pan-Asian KYC plan for identity services.

27 March 2019

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