Report: The future of digital trust – Authentaverse
This free, in-depth report discusses governance frameworks and technological building blocks for Authentaverse.
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Guide: How fintechs can win digital trust in a new era of authentication
This free how-to guide from LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides need-to-know insights about how to win digital trust.
PSD2: how new EU regulations will change the e-commerce game from September 2019
Winning combination: balancing security and compliance with scale and user experience.
Equifax turns to Entersekt for online and mobile services protection
Entersekt’s Transakt solution will be an additional layer to protect Equifax’s online & mobile services.
ForgeRock Trust Network onboards Entersekt as principal tech partner
Bringing ForgeRock’s customers “powerful, proven authentication options”.
Zighra launches flagship continuous authentication product
User authentication company Zighra has launched SensifyID, which provides continuous authentication and threat detection. SensifyID guards against account takeover, remote malware, social engineering, and bot attacks.
Start-ups ProxToMe and Uniken join Wells Fargo’s accelerator programme
Wells Fargo has selected two new companies – ProxToMe and Uniken – to join its Wells Fargo Start-up Accelerator.
Blockchain: not the silver bullet against fraud that many expect it to be
Anyone that picks up any business publication has no doubt read about blockchain. Conceptualised around the same time as the financial crisis in 2008, blockchain as originally conceived served as a digital ledger to publicly record cryptocurrency transactions and execute contracts.
The rise of in-app commerce
In-app payments are cannibalizing more traditional payments.
UnifyID launches “holistic implicit authentication” platform, the first of its kind
UnifyID, a California-based fintech start-up, has brought to market its flagship identity and authentication platform. The proposition is “holistic implicit authentication”, i.e. it leverages the individual’s uniqueness to identify and authenticate the person by combining a number of biometric authentication features, analysing the patterns and utilising the machine learning technology.
Bancolombia’s Nequi first in Colombia to deploy mobile biometrics
Nequi, a financial mobile banking service from Bancolombia, has become the first in Colombia to deploy mobile biometrics for authentication. The technology – the IdentityX platform – is supplied by US fintech specialist Daon. Users will be asked to provide their biometrics when signing up for Nequi. They will be able to authenticate with a […]
Fingerprint authentication for mobile finance moves closer with FIDO
Widespread use of fingerprint authentication for financial transactions on mobile devices could start taking off from early next year as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Google, Samsung, Lenovo, Microsoft, Alipay and others adopt a new authentication standard through their joint project, the FIDO Alliance, which has just published its specifications and launched its first server.
Mobile payment security will depend on using the ‘smart’ in smartphone
Confusion and concern over security is cited over and over again as the biggest barrier to widespread consumer uptake of mobile payments. And no wonder – confidence in the protection of sensitive cardholder data lies at the heart of trust in this technology. An EMV card as a physical asset is cryptographically secure. How can we emulate this security with something that is virtual?
