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The TSA On Leveraging Government-Supported Digital Identities, Biometrics To Enhance Air Travel Experiences
December 13, 2021

Air travel players have learned first-hand during the pandemic that many of the industry’s long-standing verification practices could use a 21st-century upgrade. In the Digital Identity Tracker, the TSA’s Jason Lim explains how biometrics and government-backed digital ID solutions such as mobile driver’s licenses can...

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ID Verification Helps Food Aggregators Reduce Friendly Fraud
December 13, 2021

With the rapid rise of food delivery services has come the concurrent rise of food delivery fraud. In fact, as noted in the October Digital Identity Tracker, a PYMNTS and Jumio collaboration, consumers lost $56 billion to identity fraud last year with stolen credentials for...

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Only 42% of Consumers Say Username/Password is Their Preferred Login Method
December 10, 2021

When logging in to perform a business transaction, consumers prefer modern authentication approaches. They often consider the username and password method and knowledge-based authentication (KBA) measures to be clunky. A new study, the Monetizing Digital Intent Tracker, a PYMNTS and Neuro-ID collaboration, found that usernames and passwords are used by...

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TSA Sees Biometrics as Next-Gen ID Verification Tool
December 10, 2021

Quickly and easily identifying consumers online is critical for any entity conducting business on virtual channels, especially financial institutions (FIs), government entities and merchants. Determining the identities of their users with the necessary speed and security is becoming more and more difficult in a world...

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New Study: 90% of Consumers Willing to Ditch Passwords for Safer Authentication
December 09, 2021

With each passing day, passwords are looking more and more like a relic of the digital past. Consumers are growing less confident in this method of access to online devices and accounts, which is driving companies to get serious about trading hackable passwords for biometrics....

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Eliminating ‘Biometric Bias’ Will Take Collective Effort From Banks, Retailers and Consumers
December 09, 2021

Picture, for a moment, the biometrics you might use every day — perhaps every time you unlock your phone. The thought of bias — exclusion based on race or gender identity — might not enter your mental picture. And why should it? After all, the...

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Trulioo Launches ID Verification for Gen Z, Student Inclusion
December 07, 2021

Global identity verification firm Trulioo is launching an expanded service, with U.S. student records added to the company’s GlobalGateway marketplace supporting compliance, know your customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions, according to a press release on Tuesday (Dec. 7). With the new service, Trulioo...

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Deep Dive: The Role of Consent Management in Open Banking Privacy Regulations
December 07, 2021

Open banking relies on consumers’ consent for regulated third-party financial services providers to securely access their bank transaction histories. The model makes digital payments easier for consumers and means that banks and third-party organizations can transform information into personalized financial advice or recommendations, such as...

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New Tracker: Digital Identity Making Unattended Retail Safer for Underaged Consumers
December 06, 2021

Remote onboarding and identity verification continue mushrooming through the phases of the pandemic and with all that convenience come key legal issues that must be quickly resolved. Unattended retail (UR) checkouts and automated kiosks are two gleaming expressions of the digital shift, and as the...