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Best Overall Digital Identity Solution Provider FinTech Breakthrough Awards

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Ekata Named Best Overall Digital Identity Solution Provider in 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Awards

We’re excited to share that Ekata has been honored in this year’s FinTech Breakthrough Awards as the Best Overall Digital Identity Solution Provider. This annual awards program recognizes the breakthrough companies and products in the global financial services and technology industry today. Nominations were reviewed by senior executives with diverse business, marketing, sales, analytical and […]

3.30.2022

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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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Leverage Our Dynamic Identity Data for Your Marketplace Company

Marketplace companies are inherently unique, which means they’ve become especially good at adapting standard business solutions and processes into something that fits their own flexible business models. Most marketplace companies are intrinsically technology-oriented; if they don’t see a solution they want on the shelf they’re more than willing to build one out for their particular […]

8.27.2018

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Stop and Prevent Spam Bots From Disrupting Your Site

One of the hallmarks of a successful product, marketplace, or community is a large user base. It is important for the growth and survival of your platform, but the problem is that along with creating a group of users that powers your business, you also end up attracting unwanted users who want to market their […]

8.8.2018

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How to Identify and Prevent Promo Abuse Fraud in eCommerce

Offering new compelling promotions can be an incredibly effective way to acquire new customers, especially for companies whose customers offer a high lifetime value. This could take the form of free services (a free ride when you sign up for a rideshare company), steep discounts (take 50% off your first order), or referral rewards for […]

7.24.2018

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The Unique Challenges of Marketplace Risk Assessment & Management

Digital commerce has evolved into much more than just buying and selling on a website. Marketplaces—platforms that directly connect buyers and sellers—are springing up in nearly every industry. Marketplace startups like Etsy, Airbnb and Lyft have built their businesses around the marketplace model, and even traditional e-commerce stores like Amazon are shifting in that direction. […]

7.18.2018

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Learn Best Practices for Graph-Based Identity Databases

Determining the legitimacy or risk of the identities behind a transaction during manual review can require multiple internal and external tools. The process is investigative by nature from basic checks like validating a person’s address to more advanced research to find a missing link between a name and address. Manual review agents need access to […]

7.12.2018

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Going Beyond Transactional Fraud With Identity Data

Typically, merchants use identity data to prevent transactional fraud and use real-time identity verification in order to keep fraudsters from making a purchase. But lately, we’ve seen a trend among some of our merchants toward using identity data earlier in the customer journey to improve the customer experience and reduce the risk of fraud. Fraud […]

7.11.2018

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Increase Conversions with Progressive Signup Flows

The most important metric that any tech company centers around is growth. In B2B SaaS, it’s typically ARR growth. With app-based B2C companies, it’s commonly growth in monthly active users (MAUs), or some other measure of the total number of users that start and continue using the service. Some app based companies have to balance […]

5.16.2018