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Is the Trend for Social Media Website Logins Coming to a Close?

Most of us have opened a webpage at some point or another and been confronted – perhaps with a degree of surprise – with a picture of our own face, and an option to log in to third-party applications via a social media account. This trend has brought Facebook back into the ...

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News Flash: New Mobile Verification System Live in the UAE

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rolled out a system to verify smartphone owners’ identities so they can access basic government services and conduct business transactions in all seven emirates. Smartphone owners who download the UAEPASS app are assigned a digital ...

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News Flash: Court Curbs India’s ID Programme

India’s Supreme Court has upheld the country’s ambitious Aadhaar digital identification programme, but struck down the requirement to link mobile-phone numbers, bank accounts and school admissions to an Aadhaar number. Under the programme, a unique 12-digit identification ...

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Key Players Gather in Istanbul as Turkey Reaches Commercial Milestone in Digital Identity

2018 has been a year in which e-commerce ceased to be an intriguing novelty in advanced economies, and became very much a fact of everyday life on every continent. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the latest region to show rapid uptake of digital trade, with swift ...

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News Flash: Jump in Mobile Fraud Attacks

The number of mobile fraud attacks worldwide rose 24% year-on-year in the first half of 2018, according to ThreatMetrix’s analysis of the 17.6 billion digital transactions monitored by its Digital Identity Network. That trend partly reflects the growth in mobile transactions ...

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Boloro’s Authentication Process Is Certified by GSMA Mobile Connect

New York – Boloro’s multi-channel and multi-factor authentication process has been certified by the GSMA (Global Association of Mobile Carriers) under its GSMA Mobile Connect program, opening the door for Mobile Network Operators worldwide to offer access to Boloro’s ...

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Achieving Clarity on the Role of Blockchain in Digital Identity

As global commerce moves ever more rapidly online, secure and effective provision of digital identity is becoming the lifeblood of the world economy.  The ability to verify users’ identities while they complete transactions and access services online is a key enabler for ...

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News Flash: US Mobile Operators Introduce App Log-In Service

The four leading mobile operators in the US – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon —demonstrated a single sign-on service for smartphones at the Mobile World Congress Americas. Building on the GSMA’s Mobile Connect initiative, the prototype service, Project Verify, ...

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Digital Identity: Crucial for the Success of Today’s Mobile-First World

Anatoly Kvitnitsky, VP of Growth, Trulioo Our digital identities are becoming increasingly more important as we transition to a mobile-first world. These identities shape the way we talk, trade and transact online. For organizations and businesses around the world, ...

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Network Operators Position Themselves in Identity Market Ahead of Mobile World Congress Americas

The market for mobile identity is predicted to reach $20 billion by 2022, as mobile identity services roll out across the world’s economies. In lieu of this increasingly precious market opportunity, key representatives of network operators and other technology companies in ...

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News Flash Almost One Half of Americans Reuse Passwords

Nearly half (48 per cent) of adults in the US have used the same password for more than one online account, according to a recent survey by AARP, a not-for-profit organisation with 38 million members. Reuse of passwords, which can increase the risk of fraud, is most common ...

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Industry Workshop Focuses on Delivering Commercial Identity Services

Mobile-based digital identity is becoming essential in modern society. In the Asia-Pacific region, the increase in mobile connections and device ownership enables citizens to access services in ever-greater numbers. Now, governments and businesses are tasked with integrating ...

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Identity Innovation Labs Shanghai: Operators the Natural Gatekeepers of Online Identity

“And what do people need when their lives go online? Digital identity.” -Julian Gorman, Head of Strategic Engagement in Asia, GSMA  As delegates gathered for the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai last month, the GSMA released the Mobile Economy: Asia Pacific ...

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Realising Asia’s Potential: Identity Innovation Labs and the Future of Online Commerce

Digital identity services have an essential strategic role in the future of online commerce. The growth of e-commerce has been remarkable in Asia over the last year, where it now accounts for around a quarter of all annual B2C transactions globally, according to the Asian ...

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Mobile Connect Helping to Secure Online Commerce in India

India’s economy is becoming increasingly mobile-centric. 39 million smartphones were sold on the subcontinent in Q3 2017 alone – up 20% on the previous year – and almost 70% of transactions are now completed on a mobile phone. As mobile devices become India’s mode of choice ...

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Digital Identity Demonstrates its Crucial Role in Transforming Healthcare

Across the world, healthcare continues to be one of the biggest sources of public expenditure. As such, there is increasing pressure to find more efficient means of delivery. Digital and IoT solutions such as Turkcell’s Healthmeter, have long given us a glimpse of what the ...

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Identity Now Key to Statecraft Say Experts

One of the chief concerns of those in the identity ecosystem is the formulation of policy befitting for the emerging digital age. With the recent completion of PSD2 and successive eIDAS pilots in Europe, engagement from policymakers and regulators is steadily increasing; ...

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Mobile Network Operators to Provide Key Piece in Identity Puzzle

As digital services grow in number and sophistication, consumers have whetted their appetite for those which provide unrivalled everyday convenience. As businesses harness the variety of technological developments that enhance their commercial offerings, they are faced with ...

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CAPS Report on Authentication and Mobile Payments to aid Implementation of PSD2

With PSD2’s Regulatory Technical Standards now published, the broader financial ecosystem is moving closer towards full-scale implementation of the EU’s revised payment services directive. Designed to add greater security to payments and stimulate commerce, PSD2 enables ...

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eIDAS Pilot Recommends Mobile Connect for Cross-Border Digital Services

Having removed many of the barriers to European cross-border trade by way of the Single Market, the European Commission’s vision of a Digital Single Market aims to create secure, frictionless commerce to the many new forms of transaction that have emerged in recent years. ...