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Choose Change for Faster, More Accurate Credit Decisions
When you're assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers, you need technology to help you not only do it efficiently and get it right but also give you flexibility. So, is your credit assessment solution giving you the freedom of choice – or could it be time for a change? The commercial lending ecosystem itself is evolving rapidly, with the demand for efficient, flexible and, above all, customer-centric systems driving digital transformation.
C'mon UBER, You can still lead by Example
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 is happening when people successfully go through a verification process with invalid documents hurts many businesses like UBER.
UBER, You can still lead by Example
This post is from a series of posts in the group: Biometrics Biometrics are the new weapons of war against online fraud and supporting financial services with biometric authentication and their KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures. There are many different areas where biometrics are being deployed. For example in digital identity; an alternative to user names and passwords; protecting against ID theft; account takeovers and multiple accounts.
The new age of Fintech - What you need to know about data aggregators
Earlier last month, news feeds were abuzz about a major acquisition within the financial industry, when Visa purchased fintech startup - Plaid, for a substantial sum of $5.3 billion. Although major news, for the majority of the readers this was the first time they have heard about Plaid, raising the questions of how could this company that many have never heard of before suddenly get such massive valuation.
Let’s get this gig on the road
The “gig economy” is growing rapidly. Technology acceleration has enabled businesses like Deliveroo to pioneer its working model in the UK. The increasing number of contractor jobs has risen from 1.3 million in 2018 to 4.7 million and it seems that more industries are shifting to an ad hoc basis when it comes to employing staff. For insurers, this presents a new opportunity to protect workers and employers. Gig economy workers do not necessarily need, or indeed want, to be insured all the time.
US Treasury's Strategy 2020 - A Risk-based Approach to AML
Last week, the US Department of Treasury published its 2020 Strategy document that "employs a whole-of-government approach to guide the public and private sectors in addressing 21st century illicit finance challenges." The report highlights the risk-based approach as central to the 2020 Strategy.
Why retrospective ID investigation is critical for 5AMLD compliance
Time pressure and cost are two big issues faced by those in financial services as they seek to ensure compliance with a proliferation of new know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. One of those that recently became law is the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), with its focus on strengthening transparency rules to prevent large-scale concealment of funds.
Four factors businesses need to consider when it comes to automation and decisioning
As we enter a new decade, many financial providers plan to harness the power of automation and invest in advanced analytics such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to help transform their processes. With this transformation, many are currently investing in major projects to bring together disparate data sources together into one coherent framework.
Goldman Sachs on its way to dominating the fintech market
2019 saw a lot of big companies getting into fintech and trying to develop their own innovations or invest in the right startups across the world. We’ve seen some companies do it right and many do it very wrong. It is a shaky industry in terms of what works and what doesn’t. When companies like Goldman and Sachs decide to go into something that decentralized, it could become a disaster.
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