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September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Verification, Article, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Identity Resolution, Personator

There’s a Big Elephant in Your Business – Name it and Tame it!

There is an elephant in every business – and it’s trampling company profits, scaring away customers and blocking valuable insights. What’s your company’s elephant? Is it returned mail? Fraudulent transactions? Bad business decisions? Beware, these problems all stem from one big beast – bad address data. It’s time to address the elephant. Effective communications, predictive analytics, fraud prevention and ultimately,…

June 11, 2019 Melissa Team Digital Identity Verification, Ecommerce, eIDV, EIV, Global ID Verification, Personator, Personator World

Huawei Ban, U.S. Sanctions – What this Means for American Ecommerce

The Trump Administration has brought U.S. economic sanctions back into the public spotlight. Since placing Huawei, the world’s second largest smartphone maker, on the U.S. entity list, the Trump Administration has threatened more economic sanctions to countries and organizations throughout the world. The White House continues to tighten sanctions on Iran, threatens Turkey and warns European organization, Instex, with new…

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 21, 2019 Author Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Demographics, Digital Identity Verification, Personator

How useful is demographic data for targeted advertising use?

Demographic data can be very useful for an advertiser to know who his target customer is. As an example, knowledge about a family’s household income can be used by a realtor when marketing a potential home to a client. Likewise, banks can use an individual’s income and occupation to properly target services and products such as credit cards to people…

January 28, 2019January 21, 2019 Melissa UK Team Customer Identities, Global ID Verification, Identity Resolution, Personator, Personator World, United Kingdom

ID Verification: a growing trend

Within financial services and insurance, identity verification plays a key role in compliance and regulation. These service providers are regulated institutions who use identity verification platforms to verify customers and their documentation as part of their KYC and AML policies. Verifying your identity with these providers is crucial not only because it helps to build mutual trust between yourself and…

January 23, 2019July 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 be so sure. For many companies, taking a person’s identity at face value and without double or triple checking could be disastrous, which…

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…

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Melissa Team Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, FinTech, Global ID Verification, Personator, Personator World

OFAC and KYC Loom Large for Financial Institutions

In the alphabet soup of government agencies, OFAC looms large for financial institutions. Sometimes considered one of “the most powerful yet unknown" government agencies, the Office of Foreign Assets Control—a part of the Treasury Department—enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy. Simply put, many bad actors attempt to realize their plans via financial…

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 Melissa Team Global Address Verification, Global Business, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global IP Locator, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, Personator, U.S. Property Service, Web API

Melissa Featured in Programmable Web’s API RoundUp

We were excited to learn - and announce - that 8 of Melissa's APIs were featured in ProgrammableWeb's Daily API RoundUp. The article stated, "Highlights include APIs from data intelligence solution provider Melissa for ensuring correct business contact data." Feel free to play around with our APIs - for free - using our Developer Portal. Check out Melissa.com/Developer for more info. Thanks…

November 6, 2017 Blog Administrator Address Verification, Analyzing Data, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Email Verification, Global Address Verification, Global ID Verification, Global Phone Verification, Personator

Verify National ID like SSN with Personator

by Michael Johnson, Sales Engineer Personator has never yielded the crown of contact verification, and that is no accident. Personator is the quintessential contact verification service. Nowhere else can you find a fast, no maintenance, easy-to-use web service that will give you a level of certainty your data is not only good, but that it is correct. One of our newest…