Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Identity Verification - What is under the hood? Let's explore...

26 Jun 2021

During last months, I asked many of my friends and family members regarding their experiences while opening an account with one of the thousands of Fintechs or setting up new account with car/scooter sharing company or other similar usercases espeically requiring identity verification. Given my background in identity management and digital ident

Digital Identity Management

Why companies need to think of remote customer onboarding in a Holistic Manner

04 Apr 2021

As per recent report from Wall Street Journal one quarter of 165,000 branches of various banks in Europe will go away in next three years (https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-banks-use-pandemic-to-clean-house-11613298601). In 2020, one of the biggest car rental company closed more than 600 physical locations in Europe and middle east (https://ww...

Digital Identity Management

Everyone with payment wallets but how about Identity Wallets

24 Jan 2021

Being in identity and security space for quite a while now, obviously when I talk to friends and family, they all get excited about whole identity verification and cutting-edge technology behind it. One very logical and obvious question I often get asked is, “Well I have this payment app/wallet (Apple pay or google pay or Paytm or what not) I am u...

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Biometrics

C'mon UBER, You can still lead by Example

12 Feb 2020

Even though UBER being banned from London is old news (from 3 months ago), this is still quite relevant nowadays https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50544283 The reason as stated in new articles was that UBER had some fake drivers (either holding invalid licenses or not insured) going through verification process successfully. The fact that fraud i...

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