Jumio news and trends

PYMNTS Intelligence: How Digital Identity Can Reduce Money Laundering and Improve AML Compliance
Authentication // March 25, 2022

Money laundering is a perpetual challenge for banks, payments providers and the oversight agencies assigned to monitor them. Experts estimate that up to 5% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) is laundered each year, a total of $2 trillion, and half of all money...

OneAZ Credit Union on Leveraging Digital Identity to Ensure AML Compliance
Authentication // March 24, 2022

FIs with insufficient digital identity protocols risk being hit with a one-two punch from debilitating money laundering schemes as well as stiff government agency penalties that go with them. In the Digital Identity Tracker, OneAZ Credit Union’s Margaret Chamberlain explains how analytics-based authentication and document...

FIs Use Digital Identity to Curb Money Laundering and Comply With Gov’t Rules
Authentication // March 23, 2022

Digital identities are becoming more prevalent as awareness of their security and convenience grows, and they are expanding into new use cases like anti-money laundering (AML). This crime has ballooned in recent years as eCommerce and other digital transactions have become more popular, offering launderers...

Biometrics for ID Called More Useful by 58% of Digital Account Holders
Digital Identity // March 18, 2022

Online gaming has experienced explosive growth buoyed in part by the global pandemic as well as by technological advances and changes in laws that introduced Twitch, eSports, casinos, and cryptocurrency to the gaming world. That dramatic growth has not gone unnoticed by digital thieves who...

Interviews & Exclusives
FIs Use Digital Identity to Curb Money Laundering and Comply With Gov’t Rules

March 23, 2022
Digital identities are becoming more prevalent as awareness of their security and convenience grows, and they are expanding into new use cases like anti-money laundering (AML). This crime has ballooned in recent years as eCommerce and other digital transactions have become more popular, offering launderers new avenues for processing their ill-gotten gains. Experts estimate that […]

Government-Issued Digital IDs Lay Foundation for Trust — Online and Offline

January 19, 2022
More businesses than ever are using biometrics to make sure that people accessing services and making transactions are who they say they are. But as Jumio Chief of Digital Identity...

Biometric Identity Tools to Play Key Role in Solving COVID-19 Public Health Puzzle

December 20, 2021
With the emergence of the new omicron variant of COVID-19 leading to yet more panic across the globe, it’s clear the world will not be returning to normalcy anytime soon....

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...

Quick Reads
Study: 67% of US Websites Violate EU Data Protection Law

March 31, 2022
The European Union has passed several laws aimed at providing digital identity protection, among them the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in 2018. Among the biggest violators of these protocols? American websites. According to one study, 67% of the top 1,000 websites in the United States were in violation of the […]

Biometrics for ID Called More Useful by 58% of Digital Account Holders

March 18, 2022
Online gaming has experienced explosive growth buoyed in part by the global pandemic as well as by technological advances and changes in laws that introduced Twitch, eSports, casinos, and cryptocurrency...

Survey: Ransomware Affects 58% of Health Orgs

January 31, 2022
COVID brought with it many changes, including the rapid, widespread digital transformation in the healthcare space, a switch characterized by telemedicine becoming the norm for everyday medical appointments. A recent...

Jumio Acquiring 4Stop to Advance Identity Orchestration

December 07, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) identity verification startup Jumio is acquiring global KYC (know your customer) and fraud prevention firm 4Stop, its current strategic partner, for undisclosed terms, according to a press...