Identification/Background checks

liveness detection

Why liveness detection is key to stopping synthetic ID fraud

Synthetic identity fraud is emerging as one of the more difficult threats for digital onboarding teams to detect, precisely because it does not resemble...
Experian

Experian launches single-API identity verification tool

Experian, the global information services company, has launched Identity Connect, a new identity verification solution designed to help organisations authenticate customers while meeting the...
Hopae

Hopae adds DigiLocker and PAN to single API

Hopae has made India's two principal digital identity systems accessible through its Hopae Connect API, bringing the country's 1.45 billion-strong enrolled population within reach...
Sumsub

Sumsub bolsters EU compliance with eIDAS 2.0 recertification

Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification platform designed to enable fraud-free and scalable compliance, has reconfirmed its eIDAS 2.0 certification at the High Level of...
Canada

Canada’s FCA bill puts FinTech compliance on notice

Canada's fragmented approach to tackling financial crime has drawn sustained criticism for years. Responsibility for investigating money laundering, fraud, and sanctions offences has historically...
Prove

Identity firm Prove bolsters platform with new hire

Prove has named Frances Zelazny as general manager of new market innovations, with a mandate to build out privacy-preserving biometric and KYC compliance capabilities. Zelazny,...

LSEG launches Identity Gateway for digital ID access

LSEG Risk Intelligence, the risk and identity verification arm of the London Stock Exchange Group, has unveiled Identity Gateway, a new infrastructure layer built...
Trade surveillance is entering a new phase. With financial institutions operating across increasingly complex, high-volume and multi-venue trading environments, firms are under growing pressure to improve detection capability, reduce false positives and demonstrate that surveillance frameworks are operating effectively in practice. The Global State of RegTech 2026 report – authored by RegTech Analyst and Parker & Lawrence Research – explored how the sector is evolving, and where the biggest structural challenges are emerging across financial services.

The surveillance gap firms are still struggling to close

Trade surveillance is entering a new phase. With financial institutions operating across increasingly complex, high-volume and multi-venue trading environments, firms are under growing pressure...
Sumsub

Why Sumsub is closing the gap between login and KYC

Sumsub, a verification and compliance technology provider, has launched an integration with Auth0 that lets businesses build identity verification directly into how they authenticate...
ID-Pal

ID-Pal upgrades defences against deepfake injection fraud

ID-Pal, an identity verification and fraud prevention platform, has announced upgrades to its Injection Attack Detection (IAD) capabilities within its Liveness Testing function, aimed...

News Stories

How bolttech is rethinking protection: preventing risk before it happens 

How bolttech is rethinking protection: preventing risk before it happens 

Insurance has traditionally been built around paying customers after something goes wrong, sometimes taking months to complete. But as customer expectations evolve, bolttech is...
Why climate insights still aren’t reshaping portfolios

Why climate insights still aren’t reshaping portfolios

Institutional investors are no longer short of climate data. What they lack, according to Ortec Finance, is a reliable way to turn that data...
Contour Underwriting taps KYND for global cyber push

Contour Underwriting taps KYND for global cyber push

Contour Underwriting has chosen KYND, a provider of cyber risk analytics, to support the worldwide rollout of its new cyber insurance proposition. KYND was picked...
Why explainable AI will decide the AML compliance race

Why explainable AI will decide the AML compliance race

Artificial intelligence in anti-money laundering (AML) has reached a decisive moment, according to Napier AI. Regulators, banks and vendors are no longer debating whether...
Zions turns to nCino as it advances its AI strategy

Zions turns to nCino as it advances its AI strategy

Zions Bancorporation is looking to move beyond generative artificial intelligence (AI) as it develops a banking strategy centred on agentic AI, stronger data infrastructure...

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