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Five data-driven tactics to ensure financial regulatory compliance worldwide

Overwhelmed is a word many professionals in financial services use as they scramble to stay compliant with the vast array of global regulations aimed at preventing financial crime and fraud. What’s the answer? Step 1: Collect high-quality, verified contact data Having access to quality customer data is key to achieving financial compliance with gl...

20 October 2025 /regulation /identity Banking Regulations

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How to prevent synthetic identity fraud before it strikes

Increasingly sophisticated fraud is on the rise. One of the fastest growing is synthetic identity fraud (SIF), which sees criminals creating new, false identities using a combination of real, stolen and fake data - such as birthdates and addresses - which they then use to defraud those in financial services. AI-powered tools are accelerating this ...

12 September 2025 /identity /crime Digital Identity Management

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Leverage mobile ID verification for KYC / AML compliance and global growth

With around five billion people in the world having access to a smartphone, out of a global population of just over eight billion, a mobile number is quickly becoming a vital part of the identity verification process in KYC and AML compliance, and in the fight against fraud. Traditionally, matching a name to an address has been and continues to be...

11 August 2025 /regulation /identity Digital Identity Management

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Five ways to ensure compliance with stricter global fraud prevention regulations

Nasdaq’s 2024 Global Financial Crime Report highlights $3.1 trillion of illicit funds flowing through the global financial system. As a result, financial crime and fraud prevention regulations are being tightened up globally. In the UK, for example, a new ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud’ criminal offence will be enforced from September, as part of the Ec...

04 June 2025 /regulation /identity Data Management and Governance

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Spring clean customer databases to deliver growth in uncertain times

2025 is proving to be a challenging time for financial institutions looking to drive revenue. Organisations from the Bank of England to the IMF have been predicting a year of slow economic growth in the UK for the remainder of 2025, and now there’s uncertainty on tariffs which could have a significant negative impact on economies globally. In this...

25 April 2025 /regulation /retail Data Management and Governance

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Seven ways to tackle bad data and drive business performance

Bad customer data – databases where customer data is inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent – causes huge issues for financial institutions. Accurate customer data informs effective customer communications and personalisation. Without it, communications quickly become ineffective, even detrimental to the customer experience, damaging brand reputat...

04 April 2025 /regulation /identity Data Management and Governance

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Strategies to deliver a standout customer onboarding experience

In an increasingly competitive and congested financial services industry, improving the customer onboarding experience is vital for those serious about growth. With it costing on average five times more to source a new customer than to keep an existing one delivering a great customer experience from the outset, during the onboarding stage, is criti...

14 February 2025 /regulation /identity Customer Service 2015-2019-2025

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