Identity verification

Some banks seek to dominate the digital-identity business, but they stand to benefit even if their efforts fall short.

The bank is pitching digital identity products to businesses as a way to improve user experience and guard against fraud.

Cambridge Blockchain, one of many startups applying blockchain technology to customer privacy and data collection issues, is teaming up with LuxTrust to launch a new identity platform.

The German bank announced a project designed to create a single online registration for users across a number of industries.

Sovrin, a new blockchain for the creation and management of digital identities, may help credit unions save money and fight fraud while returning power to individuals.

As the smartphones become ATM cards, a new set of security risks emerges. Thorough ID protection is necessary to keep no-card ATMs secure.

Allen, Texas-based Giact Systems is combining its identity and payment verification tools into a single platform called Epic.

Passwords are often restrictive, undynanmic and draw attention from fraudsters. And there's also the risk of repeated cybercrime linked to old authentication.

Canadian banks hope to create an environment where consumers have more control over who is able to view their personal data.

ID.me raised $19 million in a Series B round that was led by FTV Capital and included USAA.

Screen scraping has plenty of critics, but the alternatives, OAuth and APIs, have their share of detractors, too.

The human voice changes more quickly than you’d think, and this has to be taken into account by voice-recognition systems.

Marketplace lenders have set themselves apart from banks by moving faster, but lending fraud might force them to revamp their authentication processes.

Marketplace lenders have set themselves apart from banks by moving faster, but lending fraud might force them to revamp their authentication processes.

By using biometrics, merchants can tie user identity to the actual consumer, a better option than EMV chip cards.

Host Card Emulation can bring contactless mobile payments to a wider variety of phones, but there's still some security concerns. That's where 'trusted execution environment' comes in.

The information giant agreed to buy two data businesses from the DTCC as regulators' demands for transparency fuel calls for shared industrywide solutions.

The U.S. government and banks face similar challenges in implementing a biometrics identity system. Both should study what other countries are already doing.

Cambridge Blockchain, a startup that bills its technology as a solution for banks to the competing regulatory imperatives of transparency and privacy, has raised $2 million through a convertible note.

The initiative would add payments to the country's national identity system, but the government wants more time to review Mastercard's proposal.