The Fintech Times

JULY 10, 2025

We’ve done integrations across all sorts of sectors, such as gaming, gambling, retail and travel, and we’re engaged with regulators like Ofcom and the Malta Gaming Authority on things like age verification and safer access online for minors. What has been the biggest challenge or most tricky moment to overcome?

Online and Mobile Banking

The Fintech Times

JULY 18, 2025

Umazi , the digital identity platform, has revealed that outdated and inefficient business verification systems are causing serious problems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK. Consequently, they are struggling to grow and operate efficiently.

Duplicate

Segpay

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Privacy-Friendly Cryptographic Security in Compliance with the Law Resistance to traditional ID-based age verification is growing. In response, less intrusive alternatives like blockchain-based age verification are emerging. This ensures the integrity and reliability of age verification records.

Verification

Segpay

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Age verification systems are essential tools for ensuring compliance with regulations designed to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content or services. What is Age Verification? This approach typically involves user-specific credentials and identity checks.

Verification

Segpay

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Age verification tools are crucial in the adult industry to ensure that only users of legal age (typically 18+) access adult content. Various tools and methods are used across platforms to verify age, ranging from simple age-checking prompts to sophisticated identity verification systems. It is GDPR-compliant and offers high security.

Compliance

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

What about the golden age of age verification? However, as more age-restricted products move online, robust and seamless digital age verification takes on more importance, a trend that promises to grow in the coming few years. The increasingly old-fashioned age-verification pop-up box isn’t cutting it anymore, at least in his view.

Verification

PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

The goals of any digital identity verification process or technology include stopping fraud in its tracks, preventing fake accounts from ever being opened and, at the most basic level, maintaining (and even building) a client’s reputation for trustworthiness. That’s not easy. Are end users ready to manage their own IDs? Healthy Friction.

Verification

PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

However, if data is vital to the digital economy, so is identity (ID) verification. If anything has become clear within the last few years, it’s that electronic ID verification — using digital methods and data to confirm and authenticate identities — is increasingly taking on crucial importance. Evolving ID.

Verification

Finovate

MARCH 29, 2024

AU10TIX expands its Digital ID identity verification solution Israel-based identity verification and management specialist AU10TIX announced the expansion of its Digital ID solution this week. Serving as a verification hub for businesses, AU10TIX’s Digital ID solution enables faster and more accurate identity verification.

Verification

PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

The use of digital ID verification methods is becoming more prevalent in consumers’ everyday lives. With that shift, governments such as the U.K.’s But while governments and private entities focus their efforts on use of digital ID, hackers and fraudsters are continuing to wreak havoc.

Verification

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Governments worldwide have stepped up pursuit and punishment of ransomware gangs. “A similarly damaging trend is account takeovers (ATOs) where a bad actor gains access and takes over an online account using stolen or hacked credentials. “At the same time, insurance companies are covering fewer ransomware claims.

Cybersecurity

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In the new Digital Identity Tracker, Paine discusses why digital ID verification tools could hold the key to sharing platform satisfaction. The sharing economy is projected to reach more than $300 billion in global revenue by 2025, yet identity verification provider Jumio found that one in five adults using sharing services feel insecure.

Economy

Fintech News

MAY 8, 2024

Project Savannah was launched in June 2023 as a collaborative effort between the three entities to provide a strong foundation for the way MSMEs approach Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting by focusing on three key pillars: Metrics, Technology, and Opportunities.

Credential

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Facial authentication and cloud-based subscription services are particularly popular, with applications ranging from unlocking personal smartphones to providing secure access to top-secret government facilities. EMV Cards Face Crucial Verification Security Gaps. Developments From Around The World Of Digital ID.

EMV

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In an era where sustainability is not just a preference but a necessity, the dialogue around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices has taken centre stage for major corporations. Central to Project Savannah is the ambition to streamline the ESG reporting process for MSMEs.

Small Business

PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Zac Cohen , chief operating officer of Trulioo , said complex issues surrounding ID verification, public health and even fraud are coming to the forefront as the coronavirus changes every facet of life. In the effort to battle the pandemic, will the “trust economy” take a hit?

Verification

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In a Masterclass interview with PYMNTS, Tom Donlea , vice president and general manager, APAC at global identity verification provider Ekata , said Asia offers greenfield opportunities — and some areas of risk — for merchants looking to offer digital wallets.

APACS

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

“Nothing new really needs to be invented to do that, but providers like Apple , Google and Samsung are making improvements to their operating systems specifically to support these types of mobile identity credentials,” Vanderhoof said. I think the federal government could have a way to set some of the standards,” Vanderhoof said. “We

Verification

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Now comes the news, as detailed by Coindesk , that in Catalonia the government has said it will develop a DLT-based identity platform that seeks to “give citizens control of their own data when interacting with online services.”. According to a statement, the minister said on Monday (Sept.

Blockchain

Finovate

DECEMBER 1, 2023

” NameCheck leverages advanced technology and CBA’s access to payment data to help establish the accuracy of account credentials. The Australian government’s plans to regulate Buy Now Pay Later services are having a hard time keeping up with public enthusiasm for the payment option.

BNPL

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

A recent study found 32 percent of security incidents in 2019 involved phishing and 29 percent involved stolen credentials, both of which would have been much more difficult had secure digital ID systems been in place. The Chinese government said that it is using this technology to identify citizens who have violat ed quarantine.

Contactless Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Just scanning a government-issued ID into a computer isn’t making real progress. “A That is observable on a macro scale in India and China, where governments are working overtime to construct digital ID schemes for billions of people. The Challenge of Building — and Using — Digital ID. That is important because consumers (and U.S.

Credential

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Private industry and government agencies have had enough, and they’re mobilizing. Card issuers are fielding new technologies and utilizing next-gen identity verification technology to expose the fakers and make social media — and the wider digital domain — safe for kitten vids and funny memes again. Add those to the 4.6

Verification

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Now, companies and even governments, from the U.S. In the latest Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS takes a look at digital identity credential developments around the world. In Europe, multiple countries in the British Isles are working to create new digital identity platforms and credentials. to the U.K.

Authentication

Fintech News

JANUARY 17, 2024

To address these issues, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) took action in 2023 by mandating stricter IT governance and risk controls. Banks need advanced identity verification and authentication techniques to counter synthetic fraud, including document verification, identity graph analysis, and behavioural biometrics.

Deepfake

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In the same way that governments can issue verified identification instruments like passports or ID cards, Wizbowski said there could be an opportunity for banks to one day issue an authenticated digital identity for their customers. Banks Take On Digital Identity. But who would trust that identity?

Economy

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Nowadays, verification spans many conduits and data points — including something the consumer is (i.e., Nowadays, verification spans many conduits and data points — including something the consumer is (i.e., The flow of credentials is designed not to create friction, but to provide permission. Forget What You Know — Literally.

Credential

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

The merchant’s connection with the bank is also kept secure through government-provided credentials, ensuring that fraudsters are unable to infiltrate. Amazon, for example, presents their credential to us as a TPP,” Elliott explained. Amazon, for example, presents their credential to us as a TPP,” Elliott explained. “In

Consumer

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As Madhu said, some think the government should lead the effort; other industry observers say the private sector should do it. And with the movement toward mobile banking, the process has to be frictionless, and in terms of verification, mobile network data, mobile numbers and other information get factored in.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

We at PYMNTS come here not to bury biometrics, but to explore another way of bringing identification and age verification to the masses — a method that, in the view of Alain Meier, CEO of Cognito , could help eCommerce operators stay ahead of regulators and otherwise offer relatively friction-free authentication to consumers around the world.

Verification

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

China is one of the governments currently exploring the possibilities of digital identities, most recently directing its focus to applications for smart cities. The program was developed by three institutes in the city of Shijiazhuang, but will be distributed and managed by the Chinese government.

Verification

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

That means one must have data about a consumer that can verified, authenticated and trusted — generally, via government-issued ID documents, or perhaps even biometrics. You can combine [that] with government-issued credentials, and add tech on top of that, like a cryptogram,” she explained. Trust Details.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

These initiatives are successful only when central governments already issue traditional identification credentials, however, something that is notably lacking in the U.S. Some DDL programs can limit the information shown to only what is necessary for verification purposes. Most Americans seem cognizant of these benefits, too.

Law Enforcement

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

To that end, the global identity verification firm Trulioo said on Tuesday (Sept. A cardholder, in other words, wields a trusted identity — and once the card is on the network, the customer can go anywhere the network is accepted and transact without giving credentials time and again. For starters, five billion digital identities.

Verification

PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

As verifiable digital identity gradually becomes the next-gen driver’s license and passport, companies and individuals are bidding farewell to login credentials they either can’t recall or that have already been hacked. Say goodbye to your passwords … if you can remember them.

Authentication

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

“To get into the testing, they log in with their sign-on credentials, [including] their unique user ID and password,” O’Brien said. They have to show a government-issued photo ID [to a proctor on a webcam], and the name has to match the name in the student account.”. Verification Through Stylometry.

Verification

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

B2B merchants must quickly determine remote potential buyers are who they say, a process typically achieved through data collection and identity verification solutions. The internet provides bad actors with plenty of opportunities, meaning companies’ verification methods must be robust. False Positives and Data Security.

B2B