Category: Identity Graph

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What Every Company Should Know About Machine Learning

In mid-October, the Ekata team attended Twilio’s annual customer and developer conference, SIGNAL. We were excited for the opportunity to participate and share insights from our partnership with Twilio as well as learn from other developers and vendors. This year, speaker sessions focused on Mobile, Security, Machine Learning & AI, and Cloud Infrastructure– all of […]

11.7.2018

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Data Update: Continuing The Quest For Cross-Border Data

Data update: 95+ million UK records added to our Identity Graph, and significant improvements in Brazil, Mexico, and Canada data As the global eCommerce market is projected to reach $4 trillion by 2020, we continue our mission to provide our customers with the highest quality global identity data available. Cross-border eCommerce transactions are still riskier […]

9.4.2018

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Ekata’s Identity Data Toolkit for Marketplace Companies

Marketplace companies are inherently unique. From AirBnb to TaskRabbit to Etsy, each has grown to meet the needs of a specific market, which means they’ve become especially good at adapting standard business solutions and processes into something that fits their own flexible business models. Plus, because marketplace companies are intrinsically technology-oriented, if they don’t see […]

8.27.2018

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Ekata Featured in Nilson Report

The Nilson Report is the most respected source of news and analysis of the global card and mobile payment industry. For 42 years, The Nilson Report has provided credit, debit, and prepaid card issuer, acquirer, and technology vendor statistics, as well as technology, personnel, and product news and updates. The publication has no advertisements, no […]

4.23.2018

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The Identity Credit Connection

For years in the U.S., the Social Security Number has been the gold standard in identifying and verifying the credit history of prospective customers. But as financial institutions look to reach new and untapped markets, the legacy SSN may give way to a modern and potentially more secure string of digits: the cellphone number. Consumer […]

4.21.2017

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New Identity Check Interface!

Technology changes quickly, and here at Ekata we move fast to deliver industry-leading global identity verification products to our customers and partners to stay in front of fraud. Ease and speed are vital to our product development process so we can help businesses identify legitimate customers, prevent fraudulent transactions, and smooth new customer account creation. […]

4.19.2017

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A Hummer or a Hybrid? Identity Verification in Lead Generation and Origination in Online Lending and FinTech

How are you growing your online lending business? Is your lead gen program a Hummer getting 6 miles to the gallon? Or is it a hybrid Lexus SUV with equal clearance, greater comfort, and 26 mpg? If yours is like dozens of our online lending customers’ businesses, you are spending out your ears on lead […]

2.7.2017

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Getting Down to Business: Part 3 in a 6 Part Partner Series

Read Part 2 in the series: How We Look for a Good Fit You have done your due diligence in qualifying a potential partnership, so now the next step is to put an agreement in place. This is the critical juncture where the framework is built to structure the partnership, including establishing the critical details […]

1.5.2017

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Layer Email Data to Stop Chargeback Fraud

While sending a confirmation email and opening a line of communication with the customer started as a great method for customer service in the early days of the Internet, the growing ecommerce market has thrown email into the spotlight as a necessary and unique transaction identifier as part of a layered solution for identity verification. […]

12.20.2016