Category: Fintech

Read and learn about innovations and services in Fintech with the following articles and posts by Ekata, a Mastercard company.

Synthetic Identity Fraud

How a probabilistic approach to Know Your Customer mitigates synthetic identity fraud

As synthetic identity fraud continues to surge across industries, in particular affecting financial institutions, it’s vital that we come together to make better, more accurate predictions of fraud risk, using a wider range of identity verification data. While Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are essential to ensure compliance, in particular protecting financial institutions against corruption, […]

8.7.2023

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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

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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

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Money20/20 US - Major Trends in GDPR, KYC, & PSD2

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