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Circumvention of identity controls accounted for 42% of Bank Secrecy Act reports

Circumvention of identity controls accounted for 42% of Bank Secrecy Act reports

The US saw around 1.6 million Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) reports in 2021 tied to the exploitation of identity processes during account creation, account access, and transaction processing, indicating $212 billion in suspicious activity.

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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 2

The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 2

Finextra's year in review

Finextra's year in review

Nexi sells Nordic eID business to IN Groupe

Nexi sells Nordic eID business to IN Groupe

Prove Identity raises $40m

Prove Identity raises $40m

Oz banks back digital identity network

Oz banks back digital identity network

Lloyds Bank rolls out proof of identity app

Lloyds Bank rolls out proof of identity app

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project launches

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project launches

Amazon rolls out palm payment tech to 500+ Whole Food Market stores

Amazon rolls out palm payment tech to 500+ Whole Food Market stores

Mastercard aims to boost trust for blockchain transactions

Mastercard aims to boost trust for blockchain transactions

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[New Impact Study] AI and Cloud: The Proving Ground for Regulatory Resilience in 2024[New Impact Study] AI and Cloud: The Proving Ground for Regulatory Resilience in 2024
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Innovation in Financial Services  

Time for Micro-Credentials

Bo Harald

Bo Harald - Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData - Helsinki Region

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services  

Credentials galore - the new megatrend

Bo Harald

Bo Harald - Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData - Helsinki Region

Digital Identity Management  

The Horizon of Identity Verification: New Threats and Future Techniques

Robert O'Farrell

Robert O'Farrell - ID-Pal - Dublin

Digital Identity Management  

Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust (continued)

Robert O'Farrell

Robert O'Farrell - ID-Pal - Dublin

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The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 2

The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 2

Stephen Curran, Chair of the Board Of Trustees Sovrin Foundation, Identity Consultant, speaks with Andrew Smith, RTGS.global, in FinextraTV’s Tech Uncovered Series. Continuing their discussion, they examine innovations driving digital identity including blockchain, offline verification of identity, anonCreds, privacy-protecting technology, linked secrets, and zero knowledge proofs.
The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 1

The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 1

Stephen Curran, Chair of the Board Of Trustees Sovrin Foundation, Identity Consultant, speaks with Andrew Smith, RTGS.global, in FinextraTV’s Tech Uncovered Series, discussing digital identity, covering the topics of self-sovereign identity (SSI) and Sovrin, verifiable credentials (VCs), the use of blockchain for identity, scalability of blockchain-based identity, and resilience.
The emergence of risk orchestration technology

The emergence of risk orchestration technology

Speaking at Trust:Live 2023, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Market Planning Director, Chris Foye, discusses how risk orchestration technology is transforming the way in which organisations evaluate and build digital trust with their customers.
The advantages of behavioural biometrics

The advantages of behavioural biometrics

Speaking at Trust:Live 2023, Chief Architect of LexisNexis® BehavioSec™, Neil Costigan and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, Rob Woods, discuss why behavioural biometrics are important in building digital trust with online users and how this technology is evolving to meet emerging online threats.
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Madhvi Mavadiya

Identity verification: How to strike a balance between speed and security

Madhvi Mavadiya - Finextra Research
Discussion
Time for Micro-Credentials
Bo Harald

Bo Harald

  And SSI is the very fundament for more productive, less energy wasting and by far more ethical AI - as ChatGPT also observed in my earlier post. For some reason not possible to copy-past link here - or pictures nowadays.. 

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Time for Micro-Credentials
Bo Harald

Bo Harald

  Thank you.  We are now moving to the SSI-based Trust Infrastructure were all My- also much Big data can be obtained for life events (building digital twins at home and at work) with the help of general purpose wallet applications at the issuer, at the holder and at the verifier

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Time for Micro-Credentials
Raktim Singh

Raktim Singh

  Very insightful and informative post. This is very much required now. The strange part is that today many tools are there, which can help you in knowing/ascertaining the credential as well as give total 360 degree view of a website ( Think of DA/PA score etc) or various index, which tells, how strong your social media profile is. But an individual doesn't have 'an identetity' which tells everything about him.  

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Credentials galore - the new megatrend
Bo Harald

Bo Harald

  Think e-mail - no contracts - no technical integrations - but now totally secure and private interactive channel for v e r i f i e d data... driving content standardisation and real time availability

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Sweden's BankID launches digital identity card

Sweden's BankID launches digital identity card

Banking associations want payments removed from EU digital identity plan

Banking associations want payments removed from EU digital identity plan

NatWest rolls out digital ID service

NatWest rolls out digital ID service

Mastercard certified as digital ID provider in the UK

Mastercard certified as digital ID provider in the UK

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Níamh Curran

The Future of Digital Identity: Separating the digital from the individual

Níamh Curran - Senior Reporter - Finextra
Elsewhere...

  1. The Telegraph

    Identical twins told not to use ‘Face ID’ on banking apps

  2. Wired

    Stripe discriminates against witches

  3. The Record

    Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population

  4. Motherboard

    Ransomwared bank tells customers it lost their SSNs

  5. BBC

    Klarna: 'I got a £30 bill - but I didn't buy anything'

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Hamish Monk

The Future of Digital Identity 2022: Equitable development and accessing digital identity

Hamish Monk - Writer - Finextra