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Simon Horswell

Simon Horswell

Fraud Specialist Manager at Onfido
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Biometrics

Why biometrics are a nonnegotiable in 2023

27 Mar 2023

If companies are serious about protecting themselves from fraud, simple knowledge-based authentication services are no longer going to cut it. The world has become vastly more digital over the last three years. Spurred by the pandemic, thousands of companies moved services online, and as they did, fraudsters went with them. A report from the UK ...

 

Five Fraudster’s New Year Resolutions

18 Jan 2023

Increased online footfall and transactions mean more opportunities for fraudsters, especially when traffic peaks with holidays, sporting seasons and January sales, for instance. Fraudsters are adept at using peaks as camouflage, hiding in the traffic and using many techniques to perpetrate scams. Here’s a look at the tactics fraudsters are gravita...

Biometrics

The future of biometrics in banking

21 Nov 2022

There’s no doubt that biometrics, such as fingerprint and facial biometrics, are taking customer experience into a new era. Today, different forms of biometrics are widely used to help businesses verify users for the purposes of both Know Your Customer (KYC), fraud detection and prevention. With identity fraud rocketing 44% since 2019, biometrics ...