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Europe wants to go its own way on digital identity

In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital identity) — which it said today it wants to be available to all citizens, residents and businesses to make it easer to use a national digital identity to prove who they…
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4 June 2021 0

4-part series on Digital Identity. Part 4 = The investor says this is a big opportunity.

Digital identity is a big market, worth USD 13.7 billion in 2019, forecast to grow at a CAGR of 17.3% to USD 30.5 billion by 2024 (according to Markets and Markets™). To quote Markets and Markets: The increased focus on enhanced customer experience is anticipated to be a major driver, and the trend is expected…
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27 April 2021 0

4-part series on Digital Identity. Part 3 = JoQPublic says this is about the trade-off between privacy & convenience.

Do you do passwords properly (long & complex & frequently changed)? Or do you think life is too short, so you entrust your identity to some service that becomes your gateway to the Internet? Do you find it a bit disturbing that these services know your most intimate secrets, but you are too busy to…
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20 April 2021 0

4-part series on Digital Identity. Part 2 = The bank says this is about CYA, KYC, KYT and CAC/LTV.

Starting with the rude stuff, CYA = Cover Your Ass. Clean part of headline: KYC = Know Your Customer, KYT = Know Your Transaction, CAC = Customer Acquisition Cost, LTV = Life Time Value. Read on, all will be revealed. For banks this is CYA because they need enough legal cover to minimise fines when…
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13 April 2021 0

4-part series on Digital Identity. Part 1 = regulators say “stop those bad guys”

Are you really sure I am not a dog? Maybe I am a really smart dog with an AI implant pretending to be a human. Disclosure, Daily Fintech is written by a stealth mode AI venture as a proof of concept. Seriously folks, you cannot know my Identity. To read this post you don’t care.…
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6 April 2021 0