Identification and Authentication

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Finance and Banking, Identification and Authentication, Identity, Political, legal and regulatory, Public Sector and NGO, Public Sector and NGOs

AMLD4.1, AMLD5 or 5AMLD?

5th July 2017 by Steve Pannifer

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I recently came across a statistic that surprised me.

Approximately 50% of new bank accounts are opened by customers that have recently arrived in the UK to work or ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Identity

At last, NDEF

12th June 2017 by Dave Birch

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A decade ago I remember writing that one of the problems with QR codes is that there is no security. Some years later I wrote an article ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Chyp events and notices, Finance and Banking, Identification and Authentication, Identity, Payment Cards, Payment systems, Payments, Retail

Why can’t digital identity be easy, like payments?

13th March 2017 by Steve Pannifer

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I have often seen payments (especially the card networks) used as an analogy for digital identity. In fact, I brought up the analogy myself at the fun OIX meeting in Amsterdam last ... [Continue reading]

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HonorBuddy for business meetings is round the corner

8th February 2017 by Dave Birch

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There’s a lot of pressure on me to be in two places at once these days, so I was happy to see Google file and trivial and obvious “patent” on how to help busy executives achieve this using new ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Identity

007.com

15th November 2016 by Dave Birch

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It’s really hard to be James Bond these days. Apart from health & safety restrictions on the use of poison umbrellas and the legal restrictions on the murder of henchmen (even foreign ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Identity

Strong Consumer Authentication with Gloria Hunniford, Gold Membership and Gary Munro

18th October 2016 by Dave Birch

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I was relaxing watching the marvellous BBC programme “Rip Off Britain” the other day. It was a live episode [online here] featuring the noted and venerable ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Inclusion

Inclusion, identity and privacy

14th July 2016 by Dave Birch

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Financial inclusion is necessarily built on a foundation of customer identity, but the rush to inclusion and the consequent focus on mass registration in many countries has placed at risk the ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Identity, Shared Ledger

“Identity for Blockchain” vs “Blockchain for identity”. What’s in it for Airbnb?

10th June 2016 by Consult Hyperion

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Recently I had the pleasure to moderate a panel on "Blockchain and Identity" at the KYC & Identity conference organised by ECN in London. It was a ... [Continue reading]

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Reputation, ratings and currency

22nd March 2016 by Dave Birch

I had the great pleasure of sitting next to Cory Doctorow once. We were taking part in some sort of roundtable about privacy and surveillance. I was excited about this because of my Edwardian ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Cash and cash replacement, Identification and Authentication, Money, Money, Payment systems, Payments, Public Sector and NGO, Public Sector and NGOs, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Open-loop payment in transit

17th March 2016 by Dr John Elliott

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In my previous blog, I talked about the trends in smart ticketing systems leading to account-centric and open-loop payments which I want to consider in more detail in this ... [Continue reading]

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