Blog, Identity & KYC
Merchant Identity Proofing: Building Strong B2B Relations
Identity Proofing: The success of e-commerce has been very remarkable. It is expected that global...
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Identification, Verification and Authentication – Cut from the same cloth
The modern era of technology has brought so many frauds to light. The digitized world has urged b...
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How FinTech can Leverage on FINMA Blockchain Initiative?
Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has taken a revolutionary step in the histo...
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Liveness Detection and IDV: An Overview of Biometric Facial Recognition
Identity fraud and cybercrime have significantly surged in the past few years. Deepfake technolog...
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Cannabis Industry – Risks, Predictions, Fraud & KYC/AML Obligations
The ever-growing industries across the world are opening gates for numerous opportunities to gree...
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5 Key Questions About KYC Compliance to Look Out for in 2021
With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing challenges every day for businesses, the rate of identity fra...
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Age Verification Solution – Restricting Minors from Becoming Mules
From playing online video games to betting on horses, the digital gaming and gambling industry is...
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AML/CFT Regulations of Hong Kong: Paper Over Cracks?
On September 15, 2021, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission issued consultation conclusi...
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Avoid Non-Compliance Fines with AML Transaction Monitoring
Cybercriminals in the realm of fraud and financial crime are constantly revising exploitation met...
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The Shufti Difference: Speed, Security, and Fairness Without Compromise
With over 100 fraud and identity companies operating worldwide, you might assume that something l...
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Debunking the Top 7 Myths about Video KYC with CEO of Shufti
Businesses were looking for more robust and remote ways of verifying the identities of customers ...
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The Power of Robotic Process Automation in the Banking Industry
Entering into the fourth industrial revolution, business processes are shifted to the digital sph...
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How Will Simplified Due Diligence SDD Help Industries in 2024?
For businesses, the due diligence process is an integral part of the Know Your Customer programme...
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Blog, Identity & KYC
How Brexit Impacts UK-based Identity Verification Companies?
Brexit and its ramifications for the UK seem to be the only topic that anyone is interested in Br...
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AML compliance checklist for efficient AML screening in 2020
2019 brought a plethora of AML regulations for businesses and non-compliance is no more an option...
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Shufti’s Insights on Enhancing Customer Onboarding Experience
The digital world nowadays requires a lot of effort from businesses to ensure customer satisfacti...
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Securing Transactions and Operations with Biometric Consent Verification in Digital Banking
In the modern digital world, secure business operations are crucial. The focus on maintaining se...
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Video KYC: A Complete Overview
The digitisation of KYC was inevitable, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated what would have oth...
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The Top Use Cases of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has transformed how businesses collect, process, a...
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Reshaping the Travel Industry with NFC Verification – How Shufti Can Help
With emerging technologies and the increasing use of digital services, the travel industry has be...
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Age-Verification Evasion in 2025: How Minors Outsmart Weak Age Gates — and How to Fight Back
Introduction
Minors are no longer deterred by simple “What’s your date of birth?” pop-ups. Armed ...
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Intelligent Security Systems & Digital ID Verification
Most technology solutions present a compromise between convenience and security to their users. I...
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New Regulatory Initiatives to Revamp the US Crypto Landscape
With digital currencies gaining prominence, the US financial landscape has seen major transformat...
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COVID Passports – Bringing Convenience to the Travel & Tourism Sector
“Sorry, the earth is closed today.”
Tony Stark’s sarcastic dialogue became the worst possible re...
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Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) Software – One step ahead of OCR
What is ICR?
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) is an extended technology of Optical...
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A Detailed Insight Into Australia’s Gaming and Gambling Regulations
In recent years, the online gaming and gambling industry has experienced significant growth as te...
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Enhanced Due Diligence Vs. Customer Due Diligence – The Practical Approach to Counter Cybercriminals
The nature of digital operations is changing, and users are now preferring to use remote services...
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AML Screening – Identifying and Overcoming Challenger Banks’ Weaknesses
There are approximately 77 challenger banks in Europe alone, the best range amongst the other reg...
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Deutsche Bank’s Epstein Fine – Lesson for Financial Institution
High-risk clients pose a serious threat to banks. Over the past few years, a significant number o...
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Perpetual KYC – Securing Businesses through Continuous Identity Verification
With regulatory scrutiny increasing globally, failures or loopholes in security systems pose a si...
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The Most Common Use Cases of Identity Document Verification
As data breaches and other crimes increase, regulators must impose strict rules that corporations...
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The Case Against Cryptocurrencies: Where is it Banned & What’s Causing the Crackdown?
Cryptocurrencies have long been viewed as the core of illicit activities by numerous governments ...
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Securing Gig Economy Operations and Contributing to the Growth with KYC Solutions
Startups, SMEs, and the gig industry have seen unprecedented growth. Not to mention, COVID-19 was...
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KYC & AML – A Top Priority for Soaring Buy Now, Pay Later Services
In today’s credit-thirsty world, Buy Now, Pay Later has emerged as a clear winner, forever changi...
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A Brief Insight into AML Regulations for the Art Market
While the banking sector faces increased scrutiny to prevent illicit financial flows, a significa...
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AML Solutions: Eliminating the Risks of Money Laundering
Money laundering is a serious crime that can have serious and long-term consequences for your bus...
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Blog, Online Marketplace
Age Verification – Must Have For Age Restricted Retailers
Mobile e-commerce makes up for nearly 29% of the entire e-commerce sales in the US. A majority of...
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CFT & AML Compliance To Hold Back Financial Crimes
In this digital era, many factors are greasing the wheel of money laundering. Due to online trans...
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Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Forex Trading: Insights from Hachem Rifai
The foreign exchange (Forex) market stands apart as the largest and most liquid financial market ...
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Addressing the Challenge of Money Laundering Risks for Payment Service Providers (PSPs)
During the last few decades, the financial industry has altogether revolutionized, and digital tr...
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5 Types of ID Fraud Skyrocketed in the First Half of 2021 – Shufti
Last year, Shufti’s AI-powered identity verification system captured a 3.36% increase in iden...
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Divergent AML/CFT Rules and Cross-border Payment Challenges – What FATF Has to Say?
While addressing AML/CFT requirements for cross-border payments, the global financial watchdog, F...
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Louisiana Age Verification Compliance Updates 2024
Age verification is crucial for online tasks like purchases and communication. The inte...
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Blog, Online Marketplace
How API-based Technologies Can Transform the Future of Online Marketplace
API Based Technologies: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are giving advanced ways of dig...
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How Shufti’s KYC Solution Can Ensure Compliance and Help in Battling Identity Fraud
With booming technology and rapid digitization, a large number of businesses are adopting the dig...
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The UK, US & Singapore – A Spotlight on the Crypto Regulations
Non-compliance with anti-money laundering regulations has been an issue for the finance and crypt...
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Know Your Patient – Eliminating Fraud and Crime in the Healthcare Sector
The digital transformation has reached the healthcare sector with new remote onboarding options f...
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Shufti’s Insights on Enhancing Customer Onboarding Experience
The digital world nowadays requires a lot of effort from businesses to ensure customer satisfacti...
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A Year In Review of the FinTech Industry [2021 Update]
The FinTech industry is soaring with a record of $91.5 billion in global funding so far this year...
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Blog, Financial Crime / AML
Impact of Regulatory Scrutiny & AML Compliance in Real Estate
Anti Money Laundering (AML): Criminals around the globe are targeting real estate to launder the ...
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KYC/AML Compliance – A Roadblock for Money Mules and Illicit Fund Transfers
Cybercrimes are becoming increasingly complex and diverse in the era of digitization, with frauds...
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Facial Recognition to Reshape the Retail Industry in 2020
The explosion of facial recognition technology in our smartphones – for instance in iPhone ...
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Top 8 Facial Recognition trends to watch in 2020
Facial recognition has been gaining prominence in recent times, owing to the benefits it offers o...
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Video KYC – Answer to Digital Revolution in the Gulf Region & UAE
The digital revolution in the Gulf region and UAE has been a hot topic these days. The economic d...
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Building Trust in Health and Telemedicine Services With Shufti’s Facial Biometric Verification Solution
Telecommunication technology in the healthcare industry is already widely used and is expanding t...
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China’s AML Framework and Regulatory Highlights of 2022
China has been fighting against money laundering and terrorism financing for a number of years.
A...
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The Definitive Guide to Anti-Money Laundering & Countering of Terrorist Financing
In this modern globalized era, money launderers, terrorist financiers and other criminal elements...
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Social Media Platforms and Increasing Crimes – How Shufti’s ID Verification Services Can Protect
The rise and evolution of social media have completely transformed the way people communicated an...
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Why Payment Processors Need Mobile ID Verification?
One of the many by-products of progressing technology is payment systems that have cropped up ove...
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Forex Market – Are there Enough KYC/AML Regulations to Keep Perpetrators at Bay?
Regulatory pressure, hefty penalties and increasing criminal instances are some risks associated ...
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How Shufti Ensures Gaming Regulatory Compliance with AML Screening for Online Gaming Platforms
The online gaming sector has revolutionized altogether along with emerging technologies. With adv...
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How can AML play a role to impede the financing of terrorism?
Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing are global issues and there is no dispute regarding it. ...
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Risk Assessment and Management | Why do Businesses need it?
B2B partnership always carries risks that must be managed whilst staying compliant. Business part...
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Blog, Online Marketplace
How API-based Technologies Can Transform the Future of Online Marketplace
API Based Technologies: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are giving advanced ways of dig...
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AML Screening – Identifying and Overcoming Challenger Banks’ Weaknesses
There are approximately 77 challenger banks in Europe alone, the best range amongst the other reg...
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Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) – Factors, Methods, and Benefits
In Europe, new customer authentication requirements for online payments were introduced on Septem...
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FinTech and FinCrime – The Global Regulatory Landscape
Also known as financial technology, FinTech is now among the fastest-growing industries. This sec...
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5 Key Cybersecurity Threats for 2020
Cybersecurity threats have become remarkably common and they continue to gain traction with the p...
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A Brief Overview of KYC Requirements for Foreign Exchanges in EMEA
The forex industry is recognizable for being a dynamic and profitable platform due to its high li...
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Reshaping Travel and Tourism with Instant Facial Recognition
Few technologies have sparked much debate as much as facial recognition. Today, it is considered ...
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Blog, Financial Crime / AML, Identity & KYC
Fighting Financial Crime: Why KYC and AML Compliance Is Essential for the Global Finance Sector
Banks and other financial institutions are often the first line of defense against financial crim...
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Video KYC – Ultimate Solution for Financial Institutions
With social distancing becoming the necessity during the pandemic, more and more companies began ...
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