Melissa UK Team – Global Intelligence Blog

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 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…

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 8, 2018 Melissa UK Team

The Generation of the mobile phone

Mobile phones sales have been increasing year in year out and the number of mobile users is expected to surpass five billion by 2019. It was estimated that approximately 63% of the world population owned a mobile phone in 2016 and this number is due to increase to 67% in 2019. This growth in mobile phone ownership demonstrates the need…

October 11, 2018 Melissa UK Team Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Big Data, Data Audit, Data Cleansing, Data Quality, Data Quality Services, United Kingdom

What’s all the fuss about Big Data?

According to data analytics company SAS, big data is a term used to describe large volumes of data, whether structured or unstructured, that businesses deal with on a daily basis. Big data can be broken down into the three Vs: Volume: businesses collect data from various sources and with increasing use of the internet and social platforms, there is more…

October 2, 2018 Melissa UK Team Article, Big Data, News & Events, United Kingdom

Another successful event for Team UK! #TFM18

Last week, the team had a fantastic time at Technology for Marketing 2018. It was fun-filled and jam packed two days but we couldn’t have wished for a better two days at the event. Although, getting to Olympia London was a slight issue with train delays running havoc on the event schedule, the team all made it in piece for…

September 24, 2018 Melissa UK Team Email Marketing, Marketing, News & Events

Technology for Marketing 2018

Technology for Marketing is right around the corner and the office is buzzing with all of our stand preparation. With a new stand, lots of stand goodies and an exclusive offer for all TFM attendees, we’re gearing up for an exciting two days. But a lot of our clients have been asking: ‘What is Technology for Marketing?’ We spoke to…

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 Melissa UK Team Data Quality, Global Data Quality, Global ID Verification, United Kingdom

Digital Identity

The use of technology is enabling governments, institutions and organisations to uniquely identify individuals and with a digital identity verification process in place, which includes identity document authentication and biometric recognition solutions, the problem of the 1.5 billion people estimated to be without an official form of identity could be solved. The technology of digital identity could also be the…