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January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Melissa UK Team Uncategorized

Why should financial organisations consider the use of cloud services?

Firms that operate within the financial services sector are facing an increasing number of challenges – from rising demand from both customers and shareholders to increasing pressures to reduce cost and meet regulatory requirements. Although these challenges have the means to cause disruptions, many firms within the industry are facing them head on by creating a new business model. This…

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Author Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification

does your address data fit the fields?

Can US addresses fit into 35 characters? At Melissa, we have seen this request where users of address verification software have predefined length and field-type restrictions. Most commonly, we have seen people using versions of SAP that restrict an address into the following fields with the maximum length in parenthesis. Address1 (35), Address2 (35), City (35), State (10), Zip (10).…

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Author Address Verification, Customer Identities, Data Cleansing, Data Profiling, Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, Email Verification, FinTech, Full Contact Authentication, Fuzzy Matching, GDPR, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global Phone Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, Personator, Personator World

The Money Laundering Bad Guys Never Quit

Businesses that Neglect ‘Know Your Customer’ Regulations are Messing with Fate and Government Regulations Here’s the weird thing about money laundering: The problem just doesn’t want to go away. According to statistics compiled by the IRS, the ways that crooks hide the sources of their ill-gotten gains appear to be infinitely creative, with investigations and prosecutions remaining steady over recent…

January 10, 2019 Melissa UK Team Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Quality, United Kingdom

Data Quality? That’s not in my job description!

It may not be explicitly stated but ensuring your company has good quality data is part of your job role. Why? Because all of us depend on data to do our work and if this data contains errors, it makes your job more complicated. What would I need to do? You need to advocate for data quality. When you come…

December 14, 2018January 2, 2019 Melissa UK Team

Fintech Connect 2018

Promising to be Europe’s most exciting fintech trade show, there was a real buzz surrounding Fintech Connect. The team had high hopes and we were not disappointed – Fintech Connect was a fantastic two days and we had a great time meeting other exhibitors and talking to a number of individuals about all things KYC and AML. Day 1 was…

December 12, 2018 Melissa Team Address Quality, Article, Big Data, CASS Certification, Data Cleansing, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Global Address Verification, Global ID Verification, HIPAA, News & Events, Postal Address Standards, SOC2, USPS

Melissa’s Trust and Compliance Checklist Promotes Comprehensive Enterprise Data Quality

Company Receives SOC2 Certification; Outlines Criteria for Trusted Data in Banking, Healthcare, Marketing and More Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced its trust and compliance checklist, helping enterprises understand and evaluate complex criteria for secure, optimized data quality operations. The company is committed to trust and compliance leadership, securing its continued SOC2…

December 4, 2018November 28, 2018 Author Clinical Data Quality, Healthcare Data Management, Machine Learning, Machine Reasoning, Melissa Informatics, News & Events, Press Release, Product Launch

Melissa Unlocks Insight and Revenue with Breakthrough AI Tools for Clinics and Research Centers

Cutting Edge Data Quality Transforms Real-World Clinical Data into a Future-Proofed, Research-Ready Data Goldmine for Better Patient Care Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that combine machine reasoning, natural language processing, and machine learning to tackle one of healthcare’s biggest problems: the time and cost of data…

November 28, 2018 Melissa UK Team

Fintech Connect – Excel, London

Fintech Connect is coming up next week and as we prepare for the show, we thought we would come to our blog to let attendees know what to expect from the team. This will be our second time at the event and as a leading fintech event, there will be a number of players in the fintech ecosystem attending the…

November 22, 2018 Melissa UK Team News & Events, United Kingdom

How London came to be

If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you’ll see that we shared our story and how the office in London came to be. But just in case you missed it, we thought that we would bring it to our blog. Melissa started in 1985 by our CEO and founder Ray Melissa in California. The business rapidly grew and became a…

November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 Author eIDV, FinTech, Identity Resolution, United Kingdom

Electronic Identity Verification Reduces Ecommerce Fraud by 90%

Ecommerce companies never seem to get ahead of sneaky fraudsters. Z1 Motorsports was no exception. Even after adopting an intensive 7-minute process to verify its customers, the company still suffered annual losses of $250,000, plus labor costs. Z1 realized something needed to be done - the automotive parts retailer called on Melissa for help with digital identity verification. After just one…