FinTech – Global Intelligence Blog

April 9, 2019April 2, 2019 Melissa UK Team FinTech

Why delivering personalised communications is a must in financial services

Study after study highlights personalisation is what consumers increasingly expect from the brands they engage with. For example, research from Epsilon reveals that 80 per cent of consumers are more likely to do business with a company that offers personalised experiences. With online financial institutions that rises to 89 per cent, and for those banks with a physical high street…

April 2, 2019 Melissa UK Team FinTech

How can banks succeed in this new digital age?

Looking back over the first year of Open Banking, it’s only fairly recently that we have started to see the first signs of the innovation it promised in terms of improved services for customers in the digital age. For example, Barclays working with other banks to offer customers access to all their account information from rival banks within its core…

March 11, 2019 Melissa Team Customer Identities, Data Governance, Data Quality, Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, EIV, FinTech, Full Contact Authentication, Global Address Verification, Global Business, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, News & Events, Personator, Personator World, Press Release, Web API

Melissa Features Identity Verification at Money20/20 Asia

Demos Highlight How to Combat Fraud, Minimize Risk and False Positives, and Maintain Compliance While Pursuing a Frictionless Customer Experience Singapore and Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – March 12, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification (IDV) solutions, will demonstrate its comprehensive IDV solutions that work side-by-side with existing banking software platforms at…

February 12, 2019February 11, 2019 Melissa Team Address Check, Address Quality, Address Validation, Address Verification, Customer Identities, Data Quality, Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, FinTech, Full Contact Authentication, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global ID Verification, Healthcare Data Management, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, News & Events, Personator World, Press Release

Enterprise Demand for Identity Verification and Address Management Fuel Global Growth for Melissa

Melissa Opens New Locations in Europe and Asia to Deliver Data Quality Solutions to Expanding Financial Services, Healthcare, and Ecommerce Markets Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – February 12, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced global growth in support of enterprise customer needs for identity verification and address management solutions.…

February 1, 2019February 4, 2019 Melissa IN Team FinTech, India

Role of Technology in Fraud Detection within the Indian Banking Sector

The increasing levels of fraud have put every country on high alert. India, being a developing country, is not far behind, when it comes to being a victim of fraud. Since banks are the forces that drive the financial sector and the money market, they are most prone to frauds, putting them on the radar for forgery and cyber fraud.…

January 23, 2019January 17, 2019 Author Address Verification, Data Cleansing, Data Matching, Data Quality, Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, EIV, Email Verification, FinTech, Full Contact Authentication, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global Phone Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, Personator, Personator World

Check and Double Check Customer Identities

How Companies can use Technology and Multiple Sources to Properly Identify Customers and Head Off Illegalities Are you really who you say you are? Well, you may think so, but lots of other important people may not so sure. For many companies, taking a person’s identity at face value and without double or triple checking could be disastrous, which is…

January 21, 2019 Melissa UK Team Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Article, Data Audit, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Migration, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Quality Services, Express Entry, FinTech, GDPR, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global ID Verification, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, International Address Verification, United Kingdom

When does Big Data become Bad Data?

Last month, we spoke about big data and the importance of leveraging such data to provide insights to drive better informed business decisions. But at what point does this data become useless? As we mentioned, big data provides detailed insight as it draws upon information from a number of sources and data points and thus, big data can reveal new…

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…

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 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…