Global Intelligence Blog

Sanctions have been front of mind for organisations in 2023, due to the conflict in Ukraine resulting in a plethora of sanctions enacted largely against entities, politicians and businesspeople in Russia and Belarus. While it’s
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Triggered mainly by the growth in energy prices due to the conflict in Ukraine inflation is still hovering at around ten per cent – with a significant fall not expected anytime soon. As a result,
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Easy-to-use no code, no integration SaaS platform simplifies DQ efforts Melissa, a leading provider of global data quality, identity verification, and address management solutions, today announced the UK launch of Unison, its next-generation data quality
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Some mail providers have additional authentication systems in place such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC which may prevent your email from making its way into your recipient’s inbox. These authentication protocols are designed as a
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Compared with the average day in November those in eCommerce achieve around 300 per cent more sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. These two days are rapidly becoming an important part of the festive
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Melissa has announced a major update to its sanctions and global watchlists in response to the recent conflict in Ukraine. The list, which contains worldwide sanctions data from sources such as the United Nations, EU,
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The government has announced plans to cut up to 91,000 civil service jobs – about a fifth of the workforce – over the next three years to save £3.5 billion, as it attempts to balance
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Melissa is happy to participate in the Civil Service Live Trade Show at the Excel Centre in London on the 5th & 6th of July. Civil Service Live provides an excellent opportunity to engage with
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The invasion of Ukraine has seen a plethora of new sanctions instigated by many countries against leading politicians, businesspeople, and entities in Russia and Belarus. With new sanctions announced by the UK government and others,
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Digital Identity practices have taken their toll over the past few years offering a range of new benefits for businesses, especially now as we continue to move toward an online world. Unfortunately, the continuing surge
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With the transition to hybrid cloud technology accelerating across various sectors, the use of biometric technology has only been taken seriously over the past few years with the pandemic shining a spotlight on its benefits.
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The first benefit of ID Document Verification is being able to verify a customer’s physical ID in real-time digitally. This enables organisations to perform KYC checks from any remote location. This removes the need for
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Melissa is very pleased to be taking part in the Counter Fraud in Public Sector Conference 2022 at the QEII Centre in London on 23rd February. Back for its 11th year, this annual event provides
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The pandemic and evolving technology have put pressure on the public sector to improve engagement online, whilst people have also widely recognised the convenience of interacting online, whether that’s with a retailer or a government
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ID Document verification is a service used for verifying a person’s identity to ensure a person is who they say they are. Businesses will implement this solution to fulfil know your customer (KYC) and compliance
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Cryptocurrency has proven to be a popular choice amongst adventurous investors, with its anonymous nature, confidentiality, and lack of regulation, we can see the reason for its global trend. With each digital currency having its
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With predictions of the eCommerce market growing to 3.5 trillion pounds by 2021 and by 2022 almost 30% of all global consumer sales will be online, it’s no wonder why eCommerce is the trending space to be
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6AMLD, being asked by EU member states that financial institutions must make implementations to comply with its new measures by June 2021, this in the tail will add even more rigid laws and procedures in
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The year 2021 is upon us, and moving in a rather fast paste, with many industries hit hard by the pandemic, this coming year may be a chance to spring for those business goals, and
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The continuing rise in digitalisation has led to businesses embracing digital operations. Online businesses saw an even bigger uplift during the pandemic as they enabled consumers to shop for their favourite brands, and relatives to
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eCommerce has become a widespread buying option for most of us, especially from the effects of COVID which has forced many to further adapt to the option of buying online and being our only channel
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The festive season is vastly creeping upon us, with Black Friday around the corner, retailers must turn their throughs to what will be their most profitable period – quarter 4. In normal circumstances during Black Friday
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COVID lock-down has caused ongoing consumer fears about situating in busy public areas, leading to a downturn in high street sales for retailers, as a result, a greater appreciation for the convenience of online shopping
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What is Eircode Ireland was one of the few developed nations without a postcode system, this saw approximately 800,000 addresses and over 35% of properties sharing their address with at least one other property meaning
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Today, organisations heavily rely on data for everyday business activities. This makes data cleansing a critical requirement for anyone with a database, so their organisation can yield better results across all operations. Following are some
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What is a single customer view? A single customer view, also known as a 360 view of your customers is a method of consolidating all the data you have on your prospects or customers which
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For a long time, we have recognised email to be a core communication channel. With 37% of UK companies stating that email is the most important means of communication with their customer base, it’s a
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COVID-19 has put a halt to our economy. However, many sectors are improvising to survive during the pandemic to keep business flowing, or at least partly flowing. If you are reading this article you are
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We have come a long way from filling cards with customer details to outbound cold calling a list of numbers to upsell products (which tends to still happen). The rise of technology has uplifted the
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As you have probably noticed, building a web address form has almost become a compulsory element for all websites that have a checkout procedure, quotation process or simple customer registration. This blog leads nicely from
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As many of you know, a customer relationship management (CRM) platform is a vital part of the sales process, which entails keeping customers and prospects happy while moving them through the CRM pipeline. But many
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It all starts with accurate addresses We start this article by asking you what hurdles are resonating in your business today, we’re talking about the things costing you money, from returned mail & merchandise to
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The importance of Address Verification & Data Quality in the Insurance sector Data is becoming increasingly valuable in the technology age. There’s also a lot more of it available as consumers become more comfortable with
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Faster and More Efficient Deliveries Following the first part of this series Address Autocomplete for eCommerce: Better Conversion Rates, highlighting the aspects of a better UX experience for better conversion rates, we would now like
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Better UX Experience for Better Conversion Rates – I’m sure to anyone reading this would have experienced dropping off at the final stage of the checkout process, entering your details to the point of payment.
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Online gambling today Online gambling or as the new phase given, now being called “gaming” has had an overtake approach to young adults. As we see that these addictive mobile apps are drawing “punters” in
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Melissa UK has been shortlisted to win the prestigious award of Anti-Fraud Solution of the year, held by the Payments Awards. We are very honoured to be shortlisted as finalists in our competition. Thank you
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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
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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
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It is an inescapable fact that for effective Identity verification, and therefore KYC and AML compliance, financial services companies need to access billions of records in real-time to ensure adequate checks are made while onboarding
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We keep mentioning our expertise in data quality and we constantly talk about our Global Data Quality Suite but what does it all really mean? And why should you care about it? In a nutshell,
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For consumers looking for a smooth onboarding process, digital identity services provide an easy-to-follow procedure meaning that an organisation can quickly establish a customer’s ID enabling a positive customer experience. What is also equally important
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Regulation and technology are constantly being regarded as the key drivers in banking and although, they play a crucial role, it is data and the ability of big data that is really driving the industry.
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2% of contact data is subject to inaccuracies every month which means that almost 25% of data is corrupted on an annual basis. However, new statistics demonstrate that organisations find almost 30% of their contact
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Within financial services and insurance, KYC checks play a key role in compliance and regulation. These service providers have regulated institutions that use identity verification platforms to verify customers and their documentation as part of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mobile phone sales have been increasing year in and 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
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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
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Last week, the team had a fantastic time at Technology for Marketing 2018. It was a fun-filled and jam-packed two days but we couldn’t have wished for a better two days at the event. Although
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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,
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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
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According to the GDPR, personal data refers to any information related to a person including name, photo, email, address, bank details, social media updates, medical information and even IP addresses. It can come in various
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The government state that cloud and service platforms provide better value for money, recommending that public sector firms look at cloud solutions as an alternative and  since early July, more than 3000 suppliers have been
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