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Four Major Trends For Compliance Professionals In 2019
via Forbes
Accenture recently issued its annual Compliance Risk Study to gain insight into the different strategies that firms are pursuing to create compliance functions that meet the demands of a rapidly changing financial services industry.
Facing regulatory pressure and seeking to regain customers’ trust, financial institutions have spent heavily on compliance in the ten-plus years since the global financial crisis of 2008. This year, however, we are seeing a shift away from spending to meet regulatory needs to a focus on aligning compliance with growth initiatives – and to take advantage of technological innovation to automate some of the more basic compliance functions, relieving some of the pressure on firms to find, train and retain scarce talent. (more…)
Varo Money gets NICE anti-fraud tech
via FinTech Futures
Varo Money, the US challenger bank, has selected NICE Actimize to implement its financial crime strategy for anti-money laundering (AML) protections, including know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring capabilities.
Varo will integrate NICE Actimize’s AML Essentials, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) AML solution that detects and scores a range of banking activities, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, watch list filtering and Suspicious Activity Report (or SAR) filings. (more…)
How Artificial intelligence can usher a new wave of Identity Verification services?
via MarkTechPost
Artificial Intelligence is considered the next big thing when it comes to tech products and trends that will lead humanity to the next global revolution. But, apart from the ability of Facebook to determine the face of your friends in an uploaded image and incorporation of AI to suggest search engine results on Google, there is still to be seen a real-life application of Artificial Intelligence that can benefit individuals and businesses alike and we think there is no better contender for this, except for Identity Verification services. They cannot only deter online frauds and scams, but they can play a pivotal role in making payment frauds a thing of the past if used with appropriate intelligence. (more…)
FICO and Equifax Forge Strategic Partnership
via Finovate blog
A new strategic partnership between FICO and Equifax will help financial institutions better manage risk, marketing, and fraud. The two companies have introduced the Data Decisions Cloud: an end-to-end data and analytics suite that integrates Equifax Ignite, a data and analytics management solution, with FICO Cloud applications and Decision Management Suite, FICO’s digital decisioning platform. (more…)
Everest to supply KYC platform in Samoa for cross-border transactions
via FinTech Futures
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has selected Everest, a California-based firm that uses blockchain for know-your-customer (KYC) purposes, to fix a cross-border issue in Samoa, Australia and New Zealand.
The contract with ADB was signed on 1 March this year, with the implementation starting immediately and expected to be finished in Q3 of this year, Everest CEO and co-founder Bob Reid tells FinTech Futures. Everest was granted the contract after the call for proposals by ADB was made in October. (more…)
Fixing The KYC And AML ‘Horse-and-Buggy’ Model
via PYMNTS
Only 1 percent of proceeds from financial crimes are intercepted, which means the bad guys are getting away with hundreds of billions of dollars, even trillions. Trulioo General Manager Zac Cohen tells Karen Webster that AML and KYC efforts can be enhanced if FIs think of compliance as a revenue generator, and seek partnerships with tech-nimble firms in a sandbox environment.
Apple Card will make credit card fraud a lot more difficult
via TechCrunch
Apple’s new credit card has a curious security feature that will make it much more difficult to carry out credit card fraud.
The aptly named Apple Card is a new credit card, built into your iPhone Wallet app, which the company says will help customers live a “healthier” financial lifestyle. The card is designed to replace your traditional credit card and give you perks, such as daily cash. Chief among the benefits is a range of security and privacy features, which Apple says — unlike traditional credit card providers — the company doesn’t know where a customer shopped, what they bought or how much they paid. (more…)
BOC goes live with Epic Lanka’s Clari5 AML Solution to battle sophisticated financial threats
via The Daily FT
Technical advancement in transaction monitoring and futuristic risk-based approach of Clari5 AML system to help Sri Lanka achieve discipline in global financial space.
Jumio Partners with ComplyAdvantage to Reduce AML Risk Exposure
Jumio, the leading AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider, today announces the launch of Jumio Screening. This is a fully automated anti-money laundering (AML) screening solution that integrates ComplyAdvantage, a dynamic real-time database of people and companies that pose financial crime risk. (more…)
Passbase is building a full-stack identity engine with privacy baked in
via TechCrunch
Digital identity startup Passbase has bagged $600,000 in pre-seed funding led by a group of business angel investors from Alphabet, Stanford, Kleiner Perkins and EY, as well as seed fund investment from Chicago-based Upheaval Investments and Seedcamp.
The 2018-founded Silicon Valley-based startup is building what it dubs an “identity engine” to simplify identity verification online.
Passbase offers a set of SDKs to developers to integrate into their service facial recognition, liveness detection, ID authenticity checks and ID information extraction, while also baking in privacy protections that allow individual users to control their own identity data. (more…)
Grab opens anti-fraud toolkit for partners
via Tech in Asia
Grab announced today that it will open its internally developed fraud-prevention technology to third parties, enabling its strategic partners and others to combat online fraud.
Named Grab Defense, the suite of tools and APIs is built around the app’s treasure trove of data and its experience in tackling ride-hailing fraud. (more…)
Is Privacy Under Threat From All The Know-Your-Customer Documents Stored With Countless Services?
via Forbes
European anti-money laundering legislation means customers and businesses are required to provide potentially sensitive documentation to prove their identities. But how safe are the methods of sharing and storing those documents? Are these attempts to strengthen security creating security and privacy risks of their own?
Right now, we’re stuck with a system that forces customers to duplicate key processes, and means sensitive personal documents are stored in multiple locations with multiple services. That’s a poor experience for customers. More seriously, it greatly increases the risk of data breaches. Recent years have proved – with increasing frequency – just how urgent those risks are. (more…)
Onfido, which verifies IDs using AI, nabs $50M from SoftBank, Salesforce, Microsoft and more
via TechCrunch
Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals’ and businesses’ sensitive financial and other private information, have become par for the course in the world of digital services. More than 2.7 billion records were breached in a single incident this year in the US, and overall the damage from incidents like these potentially runs into the trillions of dollars globally.
Today, a startup called Onfido, which uses AI techniques combined with human verifiers to efficiently verify people are who they say they are when using digital services — is today announcing $50 million in funding to help address that ongoing — and growing — problem. (more…)
Socure raises $30 million to combat identity fraud with machine learning
via VentureBeat
Identity fraud: It’s more common than you think. In 2017, 6.64 percent of consumers — or about 16.7 million people — fell victim to it, according to a report by research firm Javelin Strategy. (That’s up 1 million from 2016.) And in 2018 alone, over 2.6 billion records were stolen or exposed in more than 1,100 data breaches around the world.
That’s enough to give anyone the willies, but New York-based Socure hopes to put minds at ease with its cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention solution. To accelerate its market expansion and grow its sales, marketing, research, and customer support teams, the startup has completed a $30 million series C funding round led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from contributors Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony, along with new investor Sorenson Capital.
Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked
via TechCrunch
A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access to the database left it on a server without a password.
Bob Diachenko, an independent security researcher, found the Amazon Web Services-hosted Elasticsearch database exposing more than 2.4 million records of individuals or business entities.
The data, since secured, is the financial giant’s Watchlist database, which companies use as part of their risk and compliance efforts. Other financial companies, like Thomson Reuters, have their own databases of high-risk clients, politically exposed persons and terrorists — but have also been exposed over the years through separate security lapses. (more…)
Nordea to use biometrics to protect customer data assets
Nordea is implementing biometric authentication from Veridium for employees handling confidential customer data. (more…)
MarketInvoice Reports Record Invoice Demand During Q3: Proud to Support UK Businesses
By MarketInvoice
Business finance company MarketInvoice observed record quarterly demand for invoice finance from UK businesses in Q3 2017. £196.2m worth of invoices were funded in the quarter, of which £74.1m was funded in August alone – a record month for MarketInvoice, providing UK businesses with critical working capital. (more…)
Singapore is on the way to blockchain-based digital KYC
Igor Pesin, Life.SREDA VC
In “Identity is the New Money”, Dave Birch, a founding director of the specialist consultancy Consult Hyperion, lays out the extraordinary change in how we think about both identity and money that new technologies — especially mobile phones — are making possible. “We need intermediaries to manage, and money is one of them. If, however, technology gives us back that shared memory, then we don’t need intermediaries to enable transactions. It becomes what some people call a “reputation economy”.” And this reputation can be broken if we can’t create new tech advanced solutions to keep our personal data really safe. (more…)
Solving the Most Painful Fintech Problem
The Inconspicuous Great Pain of Fintechs and Their Clients: How to Solve It?
According to the Money of the Future research, fintech has been the No. 1 of all venture capital industries for the second year in terms of attracted capital, especially in Asia. However, most of these companies each time face the same problem – KYC and quick customer “landing” during registration. (more…)
KBC Bank Ireland introduces app-based account opening
By KBC bank
KBC Bank Ireland, Ireland’s digital-first bank, has launched a ground-breaking new mobile app for new customers. KBC’s app is the first of its kind, and works by allowing customers to open, activate and use their bank account at any time, within just five minutes. (more…)
Will words and gestures replace plastic cards and cash?
The man who invented an early form of text messaging for fixed line networks while working at BT believes that in the future people will use words and gestures to pay for transactions, ditching payment cards altogether. (more…)
Trulioo Launches ID Document Verification With Facial Comparison Technology
By LTP
rulioo and Mitek join forces to offer a comprehensive global identity verification solution for fraud prevention and AML/KYC compliance (more…)
Credit Karma now helps users find unclaimed cash
by Ryan Lawler for Techcrunch.com
Since being founded a decade ago, Credit Karma has worked to help users better understand their credit scores and improve their financial health. Today the company is launching a new product that helps find unclaimed money they might not even have known was owed to them. (more…)
Rabobank and Signicat launch Digital Identity Service Provider
Rabobank and Signicat are entering the Dutch identity market together by providing digital services to businesses, supporting them in servicing their clients. (more…)
BNP Paribas Fortis adheres to PSD2now with The Glue
By The Glue
Today, The Glue, a leading provider of next generation infrastructure solutions for financial institutions, launches PSD2now, designed to support the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). (more…)
Biometric Mobile Payments Set To Explode In 2017
Mobile payments using biometrics to authenticate the user is forecasted to reach close to $2 billion in 2017, up from $600 million last year, according to new data from Juniper Research. (more…)
MarketInvoice joins UK FinTech Financial Crime Exchange
MarketInvoice, the world’s largest peer-to-peer online invoice finance marketplace, has joined the UK FinTech Financial Crime Exchange (FFE), a joint initiative by think tank RUSI and risk consultancy FINTRAIL, launched today. (more…)
Goldman Sachs Celebrates First Retail Year and Its Online Deposit Platform
By PYMNTS
After a full year in service, Goldman Sachs Bank USA is celebrating its first full year in retail and its online deposit platform’s success. (more…)
Odeabank’s mobile security challenge
Turkey’s Odeabank achieved all-round security for its mobile banking apps by using Vasco’s Digipass for Apps software development kit. (more…)
