The Identity and Beyond Blog

COVID-19 has drastically changed how people are traveling. Big trips involving air travel, luxurious hotel accommodations, dining at world-class restaurants and itineraries packed with bustling tourist destinations have been off the table for months due to lockdown mandates and international travel restrictions. But this doesn’t mean people are staying home — they’re just staying closer to…

Failures in compliance processes cause firms to face heavy penalties, criminal proceedings and sanctions. Unfortunately, many firms keep making the same compliance mistakes and struggle to meet their regulatory obligations despite the repeated messages in these enforcement cases. The enduring problems reflect a lack of resourcing and the reliance on legacy systems that can’t keep…

AI and racial bias seem to be increasingly intertwined these days. When bias becomes embedded in machine learning models, it can have an adverse impact on our daily lives. The bias is exhibited in the form of exclusion, such as certain groups being denied loans or not being able to use the technology, or in…

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is celebrating its 50th birthday today. Established on October 26, 1970, it has become one of the most important anti-money laundering (AML) tools in the United States and has set the pace for worldwide AML efforts. Let’s take a look at how it’s changed over the five decades since its…

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on online customer adoption and, according to McKinsey Digital, “the rapid migration to digital technologies driven by the pandemic will continue into the recovery.” Organisations have had to rethink their customer onboarding processes in order to move their services fully online, meet KYC/AML mandates and deliver a better digital…

As the economy slowly starts to recover, there are still pockets of the market that still need to hire lots of folks en masse. This is known as high-volume recruitment and generally refers to filling a larger-than-average number of positions in a relatively short time frame. And much like everything else in the COVID era,…

For decades, the only real way to verify someone’s identity online was to compare self-reported information, usually captured on an online form, to a third-party database or credit bureau. So, if Tom Jones at 125 Willow Street in Saratoga, California provided that information online along with his given Social Security number, then obviously that person…

The estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year is 2% to 5% of global GDP — that’s $800 billion to $2 trillion in current U.S. dollars. Though the margin between those figures is huge, even the lower estimate underscores the seriousness of the problem governments have pledged to address. Consequently, any organization that…

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) External Identities is a set of capabilities that enables organizations to secure and manage any external user, including customers and partners. For white label authentication and fully customizable user experience, Azure Active Directory B2C is capable of supporting millions of users and billions of authentications per day. Using Azure AD…

Today, Jumio is announcing the launch of our KYX platform, which begs the question — what is KYX? The “X” in KYX could be your customer, your patient, your business partner, your driver or any host of end users. We’re obviously riffing on KYC or Know Your Customer, which is the mandatory process of identifying…

Once a company has made the decision to use online identity verification, leveraging a government-issued ID and a corroborating selfie, the next big decision is what type of implementation they should use. There are typically three options: Mobile SDK: The identity verification functionality is embedded within a mobile software development kit (SDK) that is integrated…

Paysafe is on a mission to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, card issuing and online cash solutions. Delivered through an integrated payments platform, their solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Onboarding new Paysafe…