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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

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And that fact — shared by Cognito CEO Alain Meier during a recent PYMNTS interview centered around changes in digital ID – serves to show the weakness of knowledge-based authentication. “We Meier said there is serious pressure to move further away from knowledge-based authentication methods and even Social Security numbers.

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Enforcing AML/KYC Compliance When Legal Precedent Does Not Apply

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Biometric recognition technology uses a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to scan, analyze and store users’ biometric data, such as fingerprints, facial features, voices or even online browsing patterns to confirm that users are who they say they are. Compliance Enforcement Goes Remote With Biometrics.

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Small Business Banking Tests The Digital Identity Waters

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Rising Know Your Customer and other risk mitigation regulations have the financial services world eyeing digital identity technology. The iPhone’s adoption of passcodes, thumbprints and Face ID to unlock the device, for instance, led to online and mobile banking solutions embracing Face ID to sign into their systems, too.

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IdentityMind On The Need For FinTech Compliance Marketplaces

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IdentityMind Global has debuted the RegTech Webstore , billed as a RegTech online marketplace that enables firms to integrate regulatory compliance functions directly into their own offerings. There also is what is being billed as a “plugin knowledge base” that offers implementation and reference guides, along with videos.

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Navigating ID Verification For Business Credit

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Identity security is key when it comes to protecting financial information, and it can be devastating if sensitive documents from credit checks fall into the wrong hands, making authentication critical. government has strict standards regarding credit check regulations, and Nav’s investor and partner Experian sets its own expectations.

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Why Strong Digital Identity Verification Is Key To Meeting AML Requirements

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As banks and payments companies endeavor to meet anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to avoid hefty fines for non-compliance, easily identifying customers in the digital channel becomes paramount to their success. Some “old school” methods that worked in the past aren’t working anymore. In the U.S. Getting Implementation Right.

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Jumio CTO Paints A Portrait Of ‘IDV Nirvana’

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The Pros and Cons of Standard Security Choices. For instance, knowledge-based authentication is well-understood by users – but the answers to security questions can be socially engineered without too much trouble just by visiting victims’ social profiles. Then there’s two-factor authentication.

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