Global Intelligence Blog

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 authenticate that a person is who they say they are, from any
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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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Many businesses are now implementing know your customer (KYC) processes when onboarding new customers into their systems, high-risk transactions, and even general business activities. This is due to the growth in digitalisation, and the rising risk of
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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 tail will add even more rigid laws and procedures in place
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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, targets
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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, relatives to transfer
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eCommerce has become a widespread buying option for most of us, especially from the effects from 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 address 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 who has a database, so their organisation can yield better results across all operations. Following are
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What is a single customer view? A single customer view, also known as a 360 view on 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 communications channel. With 37% of UK companies stating that email is the most important means of communications with their customer base it’s a
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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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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, 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
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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,
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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 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
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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 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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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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