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René Hendrikse

Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA & LATAM

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Here’s why (and how) the world should remove the need for passwords

Are you a good password user? If you have different passwords for every account, each a unique configuration of letters, numbers, capitals, and symbols, perhaps you are. No one can access your accounts. Including you. Today, to access our many online accounts, each of us has an average of a hundred passwords. We need the accounts to access modern l...

06 July 2022 /security /crime Information Security

Learning to trust in a scam pandemic

We've witnessed a sharp upstick in fraud cases and scams since the onset of COVID-19, but that's not to say technology within the banking industry hasn't improved. Now, it's getting tougher to crack someone’s bank account open via a brute force attack – as it should be. According to a recent Javelin identity fraud report fraud loss amounted to a w...

16 November 2021 /identity /crime Digital Identity Management

Winning our trust: what banks can do post-pandemic

When it comes to choosing where to go for holidays, or which restaurants to eat out at and what exactly we want to eat, we usually stick to what we are familiar with. Then came 2020 and the tables were turned: new experiences became everyday norms, and everyday norms became a distant memory. Since the pandemic, we have become reliant on technology...

07 June 2021 /security /identity Online Banking

Why the Zoom cat filter raises banking security questions

Since the onset of pandemic, digital tools have been a means of survival across many industries. Remote working, distance learning, online shopping, virtual GP appointments, and even digital court hearings have all enabled us to continue to function as a society – albeit with a few changes here and there. However, the shift has been far from a se...

25 March 2021 /security /identity Digital Identity Management

Lockdown 3.0 shopping: building trust with customers

While the Christmas rush may be over, with 51.3m transactions recorded by the Post Office in December, the arrival of Lockdown 3.0 means online shopping will continue to be on the rise yet again. As non-essential shops remain closed, older generations, the vulnerable, working parents, and many more will turn to online spending. Retailers and busin...

28 January 2021 /security /identity The future of Payments in Europe

Could selfies be the key to fighting COVID-19 fraud?

From social media scams to fake government texts, phishing links in business emails and false phone calls, fraud has risen sharply since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2,500 scams had been reported to investigators in the UK by the start of April alone. The threat doesn’t show signs of slowing down either. By early May, more than 16...

23 June 2020 /identity /crime Digital Identity Management

Curing the KYC compliance challenge with AI

Jokingly dubbed "deal prevention units" by some front-office staff, compliance teams now have the third most-stressful City jobs after that of an investment banker and a trader. Pre-crisis, pre-Brexit and pre-cybercrime, compliance used to be (almost!) a stress-free job with regular hours. As regulatory pressure intensifies and personal ...

04 February 2020 /ai /regulation Financial Services Regulation

Identity technology in the sharing economy

Arguably, the sharing economy may have shrunk our ‘small worlds’ even further. We can now easily book ourselves a stay in the home of ‘trustworthy’ strangers, pick up someone else’s ‘off-the-road’ car to do our weekly grocery shopping, or find someone to pick up our dry-cleaning – all merely a few swipes away. The only seemingly missing piece – th...

23 August 2019 /security Biometrics

PSD2: It's Time For Digital Banking And E-Commerce To Innovate

Like many recent inventions, digital banking and e-commerce have made our lives substantially better. Designed to save time and money, they’ve empowered consumers, created thriving marketplaces and allowed businesses to embrace asset-light business models. Open banking was quick to follow, allowing consumers to benefit from better deals, access to...

16 August 2019 /regulation Fintech

Identity technology and Dublin’s draw for fintech firms post-Brexit

The appointment of Gabriel Makhlouf as the 12th governor of the Central Bank of Ireland earlier this year hasn’t gone unnoticed. Until recently the top official in New Zealand’s treasury, he will be the first foreign official to occupy the post in the entire history of Ireland’s financial regulator. Coincidentally, Gabriel Makhlouf also boasts top...

09 August 2019 /regulation Banking Regulations

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