Category: Fintech

Fintech Fun We Came We Saw We Conquered Intersekt

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Intersekt 2022 - Fintech Fun: We Came, We Saw, We Conquered

Two days of thought-provoking collaboration and discussion, unlocking the potential of Australia’s fintech market. Having attended the sixth edition of Intersekt in Melbourne, the APAC Ekata team is taking a deep breath. What a wild two days of networking, panels, workshops, roundtables, and expert presentations. It is clear that the meteoric run of the Australian […]

11.15.2022
Identity Verification Online

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Digital Account Opening is Where the Competition Starts

Original authors are Trenton Spratling, Global Account Director at Ekata, and Wendy Hokanson, Global Head of the Financial Services Market Segment at Ekata Looking back in the last year, there were definitely a lot of changes that were attributed to the pandemic.  Yes, the pandemic may have accelerated certain industries and certain behaviors but that […]

6.17.2021
Ekata + Mastercard

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Ekata to be Acquired by Mastercard to Strengthen Trust in Every Digital Interaction

April 19, 2021 – Ekata, Inc., the global leader in dynamic identity verification solutions for real-time risk decisioning, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Mastercard for US$850 million to advance global digital identity efforts. The global COVID crisis and its downstream effects triggered a five-year quantum leap forward in the transformation of the […]

4.19.2021
probabilistic identity matching

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How a Probabilistic Approach to Know Your Customer Increases Efficiency

Original author is Kurt Weiss, Director of Enterprise Sales at Ekata Working in the identity verification space, I am often asked by financial institutions for information regarding our “email-to-name” coverage. While I’ll take any opportunity to boast about how Ekata’s 20+ years of data sourcing has created one of the most intelligent identity graphs of […]

3.4.2021
Ekata in Fintech

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Ekata Executive Series, Part III: Is Fintech Facing an Existential Threat or Momentum to Innovate?

Welcome to Ekata’s Executive Series. In this series, our CEO Rob Eleveld will be outlining the dynamics we see developing in the global identity verification (IDV) market and highlight Ekata’s response to continuous market demands. Today, we write in response specifically to a recent report on the existential threat facing the future of the fintech […]

12.15.2020
Major Trends in KYC, GDPR, and PSD2

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KYC, GDPR, and PSD2: Major Trends from Money20/20 2018 US

The Ekata team headed to Las Vegas for Money20/20 and meet professionals in the Payments industry, attended sessions to learn about topics such as PSD2 and KYC, and reconnected with customers. Each year, over 12,000 people attend Money20/20’s flagship conference in Vegas. It’s easy to get lost in the shuffle, but if you keep your […]

11.15.2018