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Nick Mothershaw

2023 – the year of the digital ID wallet

Across the globe, we are seeing country after country making digital ID a primary option for consumers (and businesses) to access both public and private sector services. In some countries, it is enti...

04 Apr 2023
Digital Identity Management
A Finextra Member

2024 Beneficial Ownership Rules Explained: How FIs Can Stay Compliant and Avoid Penalties

Having a strong KYC and KYB program is vital for FIs to fight fraud and risk. And now, this is becoming less of an option. In an effort to combat financial crimes such as money laundering and terroris...

03 Apr 2023
RegTech
Pavel Melnichenko

FIDO2 for financial sector: Pros AND Cons

How simple is it in reality? FIDO2 is a remarkable project that has been driven by IT industry giants all over the world for several years now. Describing what exactly the project is in a concise mann...

03 Apr 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Barley Laing

How banks can obtain a valuable single customer view (SCV)

Many financial institutions are experiencing share price fluctuations and some uncertainty as events play out from the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. While navigating their wa...

17 Mar 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Martin Wilson

Streamlining Payments with digital ID: How banks, businesses and consumers can win

Banks and corporates face the same key problem online as consumers – reliably overcoming anonymity. Solving this problem causes friction, frustrating consumers and denying revenue to businesses and fi...

16 Mar 2023
Martin Wilson

Are UK banks already sitting on the solution to the biggest challenges in digital payments?

Digital payment services are revolutionising e-commerce in the UK – but there are obstacles to overcome before they deliver their full potential. Here we run through the key challenges facing the sect...

16 Mar 2023
Bheem Adavikolanu

Why a big bang approach to digital transformation is the scenic route to failure

Time and again digital transformation initiatives fail. Research by McKinsey shows that 70 percent of complex, large-scale change programs don’t reach their stated goals. Some companies are now frigh...

07 Mar 2023
Fintech
Bo Harald

Proud of the Nordics - worried about the Single Market

I have been acting as an independent advisor for the Findyconsortium in Finland (now the public-private Findynet co-operative) since it started in 2018. It aims at implementing a trust infrastructure ...

03 Mar 2023
Innovation in Financial Services
Iain Swaine

You’ve Been Phished! But What Happens Next?

Phishing is the oldest weapon in a fraudster’s war chest and still serves as the most common form of cyber-attack around. Phishing attacks reached a record high in 2022, according to the Anti-Phishin...

22 Feb 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Adam Preis

Unleashing the Value of Open Banking

The market opportunity for developing seamless, secure, and scalable services across the UK Open Banking landscape continues to grow. More than 6.5 million users access services through open banking a...

16 Feb 2023
Open Banking
Eduardo Castro

How financial services companies can deal with romance scams this Valentine’s Day

Romance scams are an especially cruel way to dupe a victim. Gaining their trust and fooling them into thinking they’re romantically involved, before exploiting that trust and using their personal info...

13 Feb 2023
Digital Identity Management
Philip Chethalan

KYC API: How KYC as a service works

APIs provide rapid and scalable applications for banking, payments, and other businesses that require identity verification for AML and KYC compliance. In most countries, some firms are obliged by law...

30 Jan 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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