GIACT, a Refinitiv company, today announced that it has added a global consumer and business identity verification solution, gIDENTIFY® Global, to its EPIC Platform. gIDENTIFY Global represents a significant advancement in global identity verification, allowing U.S. organizations to validate non-U.S. persons across 38 countries and businesses across 11 countries, respectively.
For many small businesses struggling to survive the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) promised a lifeline.
On May 11, 2018, financial institutions opening new accounts were required to implement greater due diligence on their customers than ever before. By law, as issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), FIs must now collect and verify the identity of their legal entity customers’ beneficial owners. The potential cost, according to FinCEN estimates, to FIs and their clients in the first year of implementation alone ranges in the hundreds of millions.
GIACT Systems® – the leader in helping companies positively identify and authenticate customers – today issued a white paper, Beating Fraud, Beating Friction: How Insurers Slash Costs and Delight Policyholders with Payment Innovation, discussing how insurers can protect against fraud. The white paper explores the growth of insurance claims fraud as well as the risks and opportunities associated with insurers’ payment processes.
The increasing sophistication of claims fraud tactics has propelled insurers’ fraud losses to an all-time high. Not only are insurers forced to grapple with steep increases in fraudulent activity, they are also being pressured by their policyholders’ demands for faster claims processing, disbursements, and resolution — as well as minimized policyholder service friction. To stay competitive, insurers need to innovate. Not only updating their policyholder service delivery channels, but also the fraud prevention tools that protect those channels.
Deficient patient enrollment can result in serious financial and legal repercussions, including instances of medical identity theft and compliance issues. And with more healthcare data available to bad actors, fraud is at an all time high.
The Faster Payments Task Force is working toward launching a real-time payments network in the U.S. by 2020. But faster payments could open the door to more fraud, as has been experienced in other countries, such as the U.K. and Mexico. Meanwhile, the U.S. has already experienced fraud exploits on a number of P2P payments networks, including Venmo and Zelle, that offer money transfers between consumers. Those exploits focus on the lack of scrutiny that faster payment transactions receive due to the speed of funds transfers.
On May 11, 2018, a new FinCEN rule went into effect requiring financial institutions to implement greater due diligence on their legal entity customers than previously. FinCEN’s beneficial ownership rule impacts virtually any FI with legal entity customers. According to FinCEN estimates, the potential cost to FIs and their clients in the first year of implementation alone ranges in the hundreds of millions.
Dallas, Texas – GIACT Systems®, the leader in helping companies positively identify and authenticate customers, today announced the launch of Beneficial ID™ – a comprehensive digital platform built to directly address the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), U.S. Department of the Treasury ruling requiring additional Customer Due Diligence (CDD) on financial institutions’ legal entity customers’ beneficial ownership. Beneficial ID is the first all-in-one digital solution to provide beneficial ownership information collection and KYC, OFAC verification.
As the methods of fraud become more sophisticated, the traditional tools and techniques used to verify identity have become less effective over time. Synthetic Identities have quickly emerged as an acute blind spot that resulting in unnecessarily high rates of application fraud and charge-offs. In order to successfully discern between fraudsters and legitimate customers, financial institutions must be able to bring a wide range of capabilities to bear as part of their identity verification workflows.
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