KYC

Know Your Customer, alternatively known as know your client or simply KYC, is the process of a business verifying the identity of its clients and assessing their suitability, along with the potential risks of illegal intentions towards the business relationship.

(source: en.wikipedia.org)

IdentityMind Raises $10M
IdentityMind Raises $10M
February 15, 2018  |  Investments

IdentityMind Global announced that it has closed a $10 million Series C round of financing. Along with existing investors, the round was co-led by Benhamou...

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Payments Ecosystem Readies For Visa’s New Chargeback Rules 
Payments Ecosystem Readies For Visa’s New Chargeback Rules 
February 02, 2018  |  VISA

What you don’t know can, indeed, hurt you — especially when it comes to chargeback liability. The waters of transaction disputes are challenging even today, but...

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Cambridge Blockchain And IHS Markit Team Up To Tackle KYC
Cambridge Blockchain And IHS Markit Team Up To Tackle KYC
February 01, 2018  |  Blockchain

Cambridge Blockchain has announced a partnership with IHS Markit to form an identity data alliance that will improve the collection and management of know-your-customer (KYC)...

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Startup Roundup: Changing The Name Of The Game
Startup Roundup: Changing The Name Of The Game
January 31, 2018  |  Startup Roundup

January is a month of New Year’s resolutions for the masses, and it was no different for these startups, many of which have launched or...

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Bridging The 40 Percent Gap In Online Banking
Bridging The 40 Percent Gap In Online Banking
January 31, 2018  |  Authentication

In life, 40 percent of anything is a lot. In online banking, 40 percent abandonment is … intolerable. As many as four in 10 consumers...

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Cross-Border Payments, Sans Friction    
Cross-Border Payments, Sans Friction    
January 29, 2018  |  Cross Border Commerce

Money changing hands internationally is a process that carries with it all sorts of speed bumps, especially amid regulatory scrutiny.  Payments can be made smoother...

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The Secret To Fast Onboarding? Know Who Knows Your Customer
The Secret To Fast Onboarding? Know Who Knows Your Customer
January 26, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

In the old days, Singapore’s retail market was dominated by big corporate merchants with storefronts, whose size, numbers and name-brand recognition made it feasible to...

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KYC, Global, Mobile And Smartphone-Focused
KYC, Global, Mobile And Smartphone-Focused
January 24, 2018  |  Mobile

Doing business in far-flung locales means contending with a veritable Tower of Babel – not just in disparate languages, but in regulatory environments that are...

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“AML Solutions Are Still Stuck In The Middle Ages”
“AML Solutions Are Still Stuck In The Middle Ages”
January 17, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

  AML. Switch the acronym a bit. Let’s try “LMA”: Here we could say it stands for “Laggard from the Middle Ages.” The first acronym,...

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