Identity theft is the beginning of a journey, one which often involves fraud, loss and a great deal of distress for those who have had their identities...
High profile data breaches have alerted us all to the increased risk we’re at from fraud. With criminals accessing the personal information of millions of people the search for new and clever ways...
Latest statistics show a marked shift in the level of third-party fraud– where a victim’s identity has been stolen. This trend has developed over the past year and fraud related to stolen...
In September 2013 the UK Payments Council launched the Current Account Switching Service, this means that people can switch their current account to a new participating bank and have their new...
Almost daily we read about scary data breaches, there have been some massively high profile cases. We greet each with a combination of horror and thankfulness that it’s not us that’s let...
Checking the identity of customers is an important part of doing business for many organisations, but it is not always a straight-forward...
It is predicted1 that we’ll be reaching a UK payments milestone on or about March 8th this year when our use of cash will be overtaken by cashless payment...
A recent survey by Interparcel.com1 was reported in the Telegraph on 27th Jan (click here), this showed just how impatient the UK public are – we’re really not willing to wait for...
To protect themselves from account takeover fraud and to protect customers from the effects of identity theft many businesses need to check they are dealing with their genuine customer whenever and...
Bank account validation is not is not just account number checking. This week our experts take a look into 3 extra benefits our customers are getting from bank account...
In the UK the Faster Payments system has been up and running for 6 years. We’ve become used to sending and receiving money, if not quite in real-time then much faster than previously; in an...
When I joined Experian almost four years ago I remembered struggling to understand the difference between bank account data validation and verification – weren’t they both checking that...