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Identity verification. Two small words that can throw up some big barriers. Justifiably so, given that the purpose of checking ID is to make sure that the right people get access to the right things. ...
The financial services industry has one of the highest rates of insider data breaches, costing on average $21.25 million in the past year alone. Whether it’s an employee acting with malicious intent,...
The Online Safety Bill is a landmark piece of legislation designed to lay down in law a set of rules about how online platforms should behave to better protect their customers and users. It aims to:...
As the world continues to become more digital, enabling trusted digital transactions between various kinds of organisations – from banking and financial services to travel and gambling - and those the...
The UK government recently announced that Deloitte had won a new £9m contract, having previously won a £4.8m deal, for work on One Login, which largely slipped under the radar. One Login, aims to prov...
Is all data MyData?21 December 2018211 All data is somebody's data. Not really owned - but somebody is having the often exclusive right to use it. Sometimes alone, sometimes together, sometimes the ri...
Customers across financial industries are increasingly using services almost entirely online. It’s a consumer shift that was gaining momentum before the pandemic, with the rise of neo-banks, but digit...
Authorised push payment (APP) fraud is currently rampant in the UK. In the first half of 2021, cases rose by a shocking 71% and for the first time overtook card fraud in terms of the amount of money ...
In these dark days of brutal military aggression, it is important to find time to also look forward and discover new ways to make Europe more competitive and secure. The next phase of digitalizatio...
Biometric technology has only been taken seriously by many in financial services since the start of the pandemic, which made the remote onboarding of customers a necessity. Biometrics is already provi...
It’s February, and a year and a month has passed since my last predictions blog, and what a year we have had. Like with everything in life, things have taken longer than expected to finish. This is ve...
Unlike last year, Valentine’s Day this year is likely to be one free from a lockdown. People across the UK are set to spend big on their partners, pets, and themselves with gifts, dinner dates and tri...