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The Need for Identity Verification in the News

Protecting Users, Reducing Fraud, and Complying with KYC Through Identity Verification. Do you want your organization to thrive or simply survive? Protect your customers and ensure AML compliance with Mitek.

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Do ICOs have to Register as Money Service Businesses?

Neal Reiter

Screening contributors for anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) purposes has become industry best practice among issuers of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).

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Trust Top of Mind at the KNOW Identity Conference

Kalle Marsal

The issue of trust has broken through as one of the top concerns for leaders across every major industry. Nowhere was this more clear than at One World Identity’s KNOW Identity Conference in Washington last month.

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The Benefits of Moving to Digital for AML and KYC Compliance

Sarah Clark

Consumers want the convenience of signing up through digital channels, but financial institutions must comply with stringent anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations that typically send new customers out of their preferred (digital) channel for identity verification.

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What does success look like? Working towards the magic mobile deposit adoption rate

Financial institutions should pay close attention to their rate of check deposits in the mobile channel as it is a clear indicator of progress towards broader digital adoption. Currently, 12% of checks deposited by retail banking customers are coming in via the mobile channel; the numbers should be well north of 30%.

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The Time for Mobile Banking to be at The Core of Business Banking is Now

Michael Diamond

Financial institutions should pay close attention to their rate of check deposits in the mobile channel as it is a clear indicator of progress towards broader digital adoption. This is especially important as C2B and B2B checks account for roughly two-thirds of all check deposits and that checks are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

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Making Online Banking a Reality in The US: All You Need to Know About the MOBILE Act

Learn all you need to know about the H.R. 1457 Bill, ‘Making Online Banking Initiation Legal and Easy’, better known as the MOBILE Act. This bill creates a national standard to authorize banks and other FIs to scan and retain information from driver’s licenses and identity cards when a consumer opens a bank account online, either using a mobile app or the FI's website.

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A sneak peek into 2018: Blockchain-banks partnerships bloom and digital KYC checks go mainstream

Aimed at providing a sneak peek into 2018, we have leveraged our unique insights and market knowledge, predicting five key changes that will redefine the future of financial services, shake up the sharing economy as we know it today and help organizations around the world enable the truly digital lifestyle consumers demand.

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Expert Advice – How to get ready for the future of ID & KYC with digitized identity verification

To gain a competitive edge, remain compliant, and offer a frictionless and user experience, it is imperative for FIs to invest in technologies that bridge the compliance-convenience gap.

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The AML and KYC compliance burden for banks and payments firms, by the numbers

Much has changed since legislators supporting the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) emphasized back in 1970 that the new law would not be a burden to financial institutions because they already kept most of the records required. Almost fifty years after the BSA was published, the burden for financial institutions having to comply with numerous, stringent regulations has nothing but grown exponentially.

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2017 Mobile Deposit Benchmark Report – A Must-Have Playbook for FIs to Succeed With Their Digital Endeavors

Jim Van Dyke, founder of Futurion and mobile banking expert, presents his new research, the 2017 Mobile Deposit Benchmark Report, and shares his insights about how financial services in the U.S. should optimize their mobile deposit customer experiences to take their onboarding to the next level.

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Equifax hack: a catalyst for secure identity verification

Equifax hack: a catalyst for more secure and convenient identity verification processes

The cyber attack suffered by the U.S. based credit rating agency has left hundreds of millions of Americans more vulnerable than ever to identity theft, dramatically increasing the risk of fraud for both businesses and consumers, and forcing regulators to re-think their approach to secure and user-friendly methods of identity verification.

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The Mitek Mobile Deposit® Advantage Part II Clean Images In, Great Data Out with MiSnap

Michael Diamond

This is the second installment of a series of posts where we outline the journey we have been on since inventing Mobile Deposit® for the financial industry. This post emphasizes how a successful mobile check deposit experience always starts with a great image capture.

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How to leverage identity verification to take on the $100 billion digital lending opportunity

Learn how lenders delivering on consumers’ expectation for a seamless loan application experience are staying on top of impending competition to win the $100 billion digital lending opportunity.

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Bridging the Convenience – Compliance Gap in Payments with Digital Identity Verification

Top players in the payments industry have realized the potential of digital identity verification to bridge the convenience-compliance gap. Those that are already leveraging it are gaining a competitive edge and saving millions in potential losses to fraud and hefty fines for non-compliance.

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The Mitek Mobile Deposit® Advantage Part I - Proven Scale

Michael Diamond

This is the first installment of a series of posts where we outline the journey we have been on since inventing Mobile Deposit® for the financial industry. We will share some of the insights we’ve gained and why they matter to the broader industry. This first post highlights the importance of scale as financial services rapidly move toward digital channels.

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Building trust in the sharing economy – using ID document verification to create trusted online identities

The sharing economy is expected to grow from $14 billion in 2014 to $335 billion by 2025, based on the pace at which companies such as Uber and Airbnb are growing. A crucial bone to this sky-rocketing growth is creating trust in an increasingly device-connected world where the majority of transactions are conducted online.

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Regtech helps banks meet increasing compliance while delivering seamless UX at scale

The Banker’s Joy Macknight interviews Mitek’s General Manager for Identity, Sarah Clark, about how the latest regulatory developments and compliance requirements have forced banks to a tipping point where regtech rises as the best way forward.

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Customers gain both trust and privacy with a verified online ID

Irwin M.N. Oedayrajsingh Varma, initiator and CEO, JanusID

JanusID's CEO discusses how, in order to perform digital transactions in a high-privacy, low-risk way, end-user needs to have a trusted online identity account through which data from verified sources can be accessed and how the key to set it up successfully requires having a verified ID document of the user.

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Securing the 2 billion mobile payments opportunity with selfie capture for identity verification

With mobile commerce in the U.S. expected to grow 29% or more annually and as digital wallets gain acceptance, the number of mobile payments authenticated by biometrics has explosively grown, being estimated to reach 2 billion transactions this year. Digital identity verification technology can help you tap on this opportunity. Discover how.

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