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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

PYMNTS

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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Authenticating Combines Verification Services To Prevent Identity Fraud

PYMNTS

Authenticating.com is working to combat identity fraud by combining different solutions to securely automate and outsource identity verification and fraud prevention as a service. Personally identifiable consumer information is encrypted end-to-end, then anonymized, de-personalized and bifurcated to ensure that the data is secure.

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Redwood Bank Teams Up With Insignis Cash Solutions

PYMNTS

In other small business banking news , rising Know Your Customer (KYC) and other risk mitigation regulations have pushed the ecosphere into a closer look at digital identity technology, a market that is expected to hit $12.8 billion in valuation by 2024.

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PSD2 Is Coming To Europe And Bringing Big Changes

PYMNTS

At the end of the year, a new regulation called the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will officially take effect, requiring banks, credit unions, financial institutions and FinTech companies across the continent to change the way they conduct business. The update comes nearly a decade after the first regulation took effect.

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Enforcing AML/KYC Compliance When Legal Precedent Does Not Apply

PYMNTS

What is new is the way in which the technology is being incorporated into businesses’ broader efforts to comply with relevant AML/KYC regulations to help mitigate identity theft and fraud and the legislation being adopted to support those technologies and govern the ways they are implemented.

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New Challenges for Strong Customer Authentication

FICO

For many customers, biometric authentication is not practical — both because of limited consumer adoption but also because availability through 3D Secure is not wide. The routes to authentication will be different for every PSP and change will continue for the foreseeable future as consumers adapt to new methods and regulation evolves.

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New Challenges for Strong Customer Authentication

FICO

For many customers, biometric authentication is not practical — both because of limited consumer adoption but also because availability through 3D Secure is not wide. The routes to authentication will be different for every PSP and change will continue for the foreseeable future as consumers adapt to new methods and regulation evolves.