Digital Identity

Digital Identity
Credit Sesame Partners With Trulioo For ID Verification
December 02, 2020

Credit wellness platform Credit Sesame has begun work with Trulioo, a global identification verification company, in order to boost services overall, according to a press release. Credit Sesame will be using Trulioo GlobalGateway in order to provide identity checks on users, helping to ensure legal...

Digital Identity
Combatting SIM Swaps And Other Swindles With Secure Digital Identity
November 18, 2020

We’re all so digital at this point that we practically dream in ones and zeros. Strange that many banks and financial institutions (FIs) have yet to avail themselves — and their account holders by extension— of the latest in digital identity verification tech. With mobile...

Digital Identity
Deep Dive: How Biometrics Help Telecommunication Companies Fight Onboarding Challenges, SIM Swap Fraud
November 17, 2020

Consumers’ ownership of smartphones has become all but ubiquitous in the U.S. More than three-quarters of Americans carry a smartphone, with average users checking their devices 58 times a day. This overwhelming reliance on smartphones has generated record profits for major telecommunications companies, including AT&T,...

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How US Mobile Leverages Digital Identity To Protect Against SIM Swap Fraud
November 16, 2020

Exploiting stolen information to convince cell providers to migrate victims’ phone numbers to new SIM cards has become a common tactic for bad actors to sidestep digital ID authentication measures. In this month’s Digital Identity Tracker, PYMNTS talked to Ahmed Khattak, CEO of US Mobile,...

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US Mobile Adopts Digital Identity Protocols To Protect Against SIM Swap Fraud
November 13, 2020

Digital identity solutions have become increasingly widespread in recent years as alternatives or supplements to old-fashioned authentication methods like passwords. Multifactor authentication (MFA) and biometric scans are quickly becoming the norm in numerous fields, including online accounts for banks and other businesses. The telecommunications industry...

Digital Identity
Jumio Launches Biometric Video Verification Solution
October 26, 2020

Artificial intelligence security platform Jumio is launching a new video-based verification tool for regulated businesses, the company said in a press release. The new tool was created for banks, FinTechs, cryptocurrency exchanges, digital wallets and other regulated industries that want to shift to an omnichannel...

Digital Identity
Mitek, Digidentity To Help Speed Up GOV.UK Onboarding
October 01, 2020

Mitek and Digidentity, which both work in digital identity verification, have teamed up to help more people register on GOV.UK Verify more quickly, a press release says. The two companies, using securely scaled operations, have enabled processing speed of more than 400 applicants per minute...

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Trulioo Expands Services To Pakistan
September 09, 2020

Trulioo, which provides identity verification services, will now be able to perform those functions in Pakistan, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Pakistan is the world’s fifth most populous country with 212 million people, the release stated, and Trulioo will be using GlobalGateway,...

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Helping FIs Answer The Question ‘Who Are You?’
July 24, 2020

For Stephen Ritter, the question “Who are you?” has never been more important. As the chief technology officer of identity verification solution provider Mitek, he said he knows that question had an easy answer in the past. The question of “you” was confirmed by a...