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Let’s Talk about Business Banking Problems and Innovative Solutions

Users are always looking at those products that save their time and meet their specific needs.

RegTech Companies in the US Driving Down Compliance Costs to Enable Innovation

Regulatory and compliance issues are some of the most important, complex, and resource-consuming problems to solve for any organization, especially for startups with limited resources.

How Gamification Can be a Big Boost for Loyalty & Banking Services

Gamification essentially transforms the way customers are compelled to interact with the services being offered by utilizing different interactive incentives.

30 Companies Providing Enterprise-Grade Blockchain Solutions

A list of some of the most promising blockchain companies providing enterprise-grade solutions.

Flexibility of IT Infrastructure as a Stress Test for Market Viability in Banking

Largely under the influence of FinTech, the robustness of internal infrastructure in banking went from being an industry norm to a disadvantageous hallmark.

The Dawn of 5G and Its Impact on Banking

Throughout 2019, we saw major cellular carriers like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile roll out 5G networks.

Escaping Bank Fees with FinTech

We no longer walk with too much money in the wallet, and transfer rates between banks are high.

China UnionPay Launches Mobile Payment Solution with Over 20 Banks

China UnionPay (CUP), the world’s largest bank cards issuer, enters the mobile payment space by launching QuickPass in Beijing in cooperation with over 20 commercial banks.

Banks & FIs Double Up Investments in FinTech Startups

Incumbents on both sides (banks and FinTechs) are working towards coming together to meet growing customer expectations.

8 Amazing Banking Insights from 3 Mn+ Data Points on Consumer Complaints (US)

In this exclusive in-depth analysis, a banking domain expert sat down with an analytics team and analyzed three years of data from the CFPB to understand the service levels in financial services.

It takes Three to Help SMEs: Banking, Finance & Accounting, and Technology

Are the SMEs finally going to get their dues with the evolving banking services driven by technological advancements after years of being underserved? Or will this innovation be driven by neobanks and FinTechs?

Applications of Machine Learning in FinTech

Prove Trust Score™: Fighting the Rising Threat of SIM Swap Fraud in the UK and Eliminating False Positives

The explosive rise in digital transactions has led to an alarming rise in online identity fraud, often executed by fraudulently taking over the consumer’s phone.

Square Acquires the Last Piece of the Puzzle to Launch a Bank, Worries Smaller Banks

Square, Inc. is all set to start its bank “Square Financial Services” in 2021 and open it to small-business customers.

One of the Biggest Moments in Banking History Just Went Unnoticed

What is getting smart investors, entrepreneurs, and savvy bankers excited?

OTPs & Selfies Are Leading the Next Wave of Customer Onboarding in Banking

Banks now realize that one of the most crucial areas of business where tech can elevate their perception is the process of onboarding.

Upgrading Identity Verification and Authentication with FIDO

Passwords pose a dual challenge of security and friction and need to be phased out.

Prove Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Binance.US to Enhance Customer Verification Process

The partnership will bolster Binance.US’ existing cutting-edge customer onboarding process and enable the platform to continue to accommodate new customers quickly and securely.

The Bank of the Future: What Will It Be?

The future of the banking ecosystem will extend well beyond financial services.

7 Bank-Led Open Innovation Initiatives to Work With Startups

Banks are now finding ways to involve themselves with startups to reap benefits by making early-stage investments and launching mentorship programs to attract talent.

10 Banking Concepts That Turn an iPad into a Branch

Customers can now have the option of fulfilling all their banking needs through an iPad.

Payment Banks Case Study 1: Why They Got Licenses + Expectations

It is estimated that the Cholamandalam's parent company Murugappa group together has over 3.5 million rural customers.

Should FinTech Startups Have Access to Banking Data?

FinTech startups logically want data to be freely available to customers (and startups, of course), while banks tend to be protecting precious information they own.

QR Code-based Auto-fill for Frictionless Omnichannel Onboarding

The QR Code has emerged as a powerful portal between the material and the digital spheres and is fast becoming a retailer’s best friend.

Silicon Valley Bank Buys Standard Treasury to Build the Future of API Banking Services

Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative companies, announced it had acquired the assets and team from startup company Standard Treasury to accelerate the development of its banking services APIs.

Top Banking APIs Enabling Access to Aggregated, Rich Financial Data

A host of banking API providers has expanded opportunities for entrepreneurs to build solutions for different segments of the financial services industry.

The Benefits of Cloud-Based Banking Infrastructure

Cloud-based services have been driving efficiency and cost reduction across industries for quite some time now.

Retail Banking: Six Steps to Improving the Collections Experience

There's one area of banking that has not evolved as it should have over the decade: missed payments and collections.

EMV and CNP Fraud

Due to the way current EMV cards are currently personalized and issued, maintaining the EMV status quo shouldn’t be justified anymore.

How AI Can Be Applied to InsurTech

One of the ways AI could foster the development of InsurTech is data capture and storage.

Leveraging Phone-Centric Identity™ to Uplift Revenue for Online Retailers

E-commerce has provided consumers with more options than ever before, making it more challenging for retailers to inspire brand loyalty.

Behavioral Biometrics: Dynamic Approach to Authentication and Security

Behavioral biometrics solutions are able to create a more precise picture of the user by examining a range of behavioral patterns.

The Behavior-Centric Future of Commerce

Rapid cross-industry digitization has a significant impact on how businesses operate and grow—from the very business model to how they acquire and interact with customers and expand to international markets.

How Non-Bank Incumbents are Dealing With the Rise of FinTech

Enhancing Customer Experience and Boosting Sign-ups with Identity Auto-fill for FinTechs

As digital activity volume increases, digital-native FinTechs are compelled to combat application abandonment and reduce identity fraud.

How to Prevent Mobile Payments Fraud

The value of fraudulent online transactions is expected to grow from $10.7 billion last year to $25.6 billion in 2020.

The Next Level of Authentication: Vein Recognition

Applications of Big Data Analytics That Yield the Most Value

As data-rich organizations look for ways to leverage the endless opportunities insights into customers provide, big data analytics finds a variety of other applications.

Mobile Phones: A Culture of Convenience

The mobile phone is increasingly becoming central to how we live our lives—from checking the weather to booking a personal training session at the gym.

Multi-Factor Authentication Poised to Deter Password Sharing Amid Streaming Wars

Password sharing results in millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Prove Partners with TransUnion to Launch eKYC Solution in Hong Kong

Entrance into Hong Kong’s highly penetrated smartphone market furthers rapid expansion of Prove’s Phone Identity Network™ to 60 countries

Why Top Banks and FinTechs Are Adopting Phone-Centric Identity for Frictionless PSD2 SCA

Prove’s Phone-Centric Identity technology can improve your identity verification strategies to make your customer experiences safer, faster, and easier.

Phone-Centric Identity Verification Is Key to Eliminating Historic IRS Tax Refund Backlog

The primary cause of the historic delay in issuing tax refunds this year is not a logistical hiccup caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but rather a rapid influx in identity fraud.

Digital Insurance: Enhancing Customer Experience and Boosting Sign-ups with Identity Auto-fill

COVID-19 has accelerated the insurance industry’s transition to digital-native models.

Prove Joins Good Health Pass Collaborative, Endorses Principles and Work Toward Global Standards for Digital Health Passes

The Collaborative is a project of ID2020, a public-private partnership made up of businesses, nonprofits, governments, and individuals focused on ethical, privacy-protecting approaches to digital ID.

Use Identity Tokenization to Transform Customer Experience and Uplift Revenue

Identity tokenization can elevate digital servicing by improving customer service while respecting data privacy.

The Next Generation of Biometric Technology Is Here, and It’s Revolutionizing Digital Authentication

Biometrics are playing an increasingly critical role in securing the rapidly growing number of digital transactions worldwide.

Improving Challenger Bank Metrics with Phone-Centric Identity™

While a better banking experience has been the mantra for challenger banks, diversity in operating models and customer journeys specific to target segments pose barriers to their growth.

Infographic: Sharp Rise in Cyber Fraud During the Pandemic

Scamsters are increasingly prying on unsuspecting first-time digital users.

Prove to Acquire Mobile Behavioral Biometrics Company UnifyID to Accelerate Dynamic Multi-Factor Authentication

Prove to Add UnifyID’s Mobile Behavioral Biometrics and Push Authentication technologies to offer companies a modern multi-factor authentication platform as businesses seek to reduce reliance on one-time passcodes and passwords

3 Strategies to Improve ROI of Fraud Prevention

In addition to direct losses, investments in fraud prevention systems and tools, personnel cost, and the adverse impact on revenue caused by bad customer experience add up significantly to the total cost of fraud in an enterprise.

Redesigning Digital Identity – Australia’s Trusted Digital Identity Framework

In Australia, the Digital Transformation Office is creating a trusted digital identity framework to lay the groundwork for a centralized digital identity solution.

Whose Identity Is It Anyway? – Why Digital Verification Is Crucial For Your Business

Existing means of verification, such as in-person ID checks or having to supply copious amounts of documentation, are extremely cumbersome.

Leveraging QR Codes to Uplift Funnel Conversion

As the QR code becomes more popular, its use cases have become more complex and creative.

Prove Launches QR Pre-fill™

Big improvements to a familiar technology make QR Pre-fill™ a must-have for Chief Marketing Officers

Addressing KYC in a Fragmented Identity Landscape

KYC practices may vary by country based on unique identification sources and the maturity of digital infrastructure to automate operationally heavy processes.

Securing Crypto Businesses Using Trust Score™

There has been an increasing number of scams in the ecosystem, resulting in loss of money and reputation for exchanges and the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Prove Accelerates Global Expansion with New Product Offerings in Australia, France, and Germany

Today’s product launches in Australia, France, and Germany are the latest advancements in Prove’s global-forward strategy.

Fighting Fake Accounts: Simple MFA May Not Suffice

There is always a chance of a fraudster lurking in the background, trying to grab the right opportunity to take over your digital accounts.

Identity Verification Tools Can Combat Rising Computer Crime in Germany

Identity verification tools can safeguard both the establishment and the customers from identity fraud that results in heavy losses.

The Now and Next of Mobile Wallets – Keep Them Secure with Trust Score™

Mobile wallets do win in simplicity and convenience. But the question consumers often ask is, “How safe are mobile wallets?”

Securing Mobile Banking Apps Using Phone-Centric Identity™

Modern identity authentication methods such as Mobile Auth connect to mobile networks and leverage mobile data intelligence to ensure that the device used to access the service is indeed linked to the phone number being used for the service.

Fighting Fraud: Why Raw Mobile Intelligence Data Is Not Good Enough

Exponential growth in digital transactions globally and increasing sophistication in fraud have highlighted the need for an algorithmic model that taps into multiple data sources and attributes in order to assess the trustworthiness of a transaction.

How FinTechs Can Reduce Their Customer Acquisition Costs

In the digital-first world, startups from multiple industries such as e-commerce, financial, healthcare, and insurance are getting impacted due to customer impatience with application experiences.

The Financial Times Awards Prove with Win in Its Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies List for Second Consecutive Year

Identity verification and authentication leader recognized for dramatic 670% revenue growth and innovative solutions

Identity Authentication Solutions - You Only Need One for the Enterprise

The typical solution approach to addressing these problems is highly fragmented in an enterprise. However, with a single platform that satisfies many use cases, you could rationalize and streamline the enterprise solution landscape.

Keeping Your Health Data Safe With the Good Health Pass Collaborative

Prove, the newest member of the Good Health Pass Collaborative, will provide the group with expertise on preventing fraud by reliably authenticating users with just their phone numbers.

Prove Wins ‘Best Company Outlook’ and ‘Best Places to Work’ in Comparably Awards

Leading digital identity technology company Prove recognized for most promising future and best work environment for its employees

The UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework – Could This Be the Holy Grail of Digital Identity?

The UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework details the principles, policies, and standards that must be followed by organizations providing or using digital identity services.

How to Fight the Menace of Rising SIM Swap Fraud in the UK

SIM Swap, also known as SIM Splitting or SIM jacking is a fraudulent activity, where a fraudster takes complete control of users’ phone accounts by either porting or cloning their SIM without their knowledge.

Passwordless Login: A Step Closer to a Streamlined Online Experience

Passwordless Login utilizes multi-factor authentication factors to verify a user’s identity without a password.

Prove Trust Score™ Ready to Detect and Stop New Fraud Vector

Prove has architected a trust and identity platform to help the nation stay several steps ahead of attackers that exploit vulnerabilities in telecommunication systems. 

Prove Acquires MEDICI Global

Prove announced today the acquisition of MEDICI Global, the leading insights and advisory platform for the global FinTech industry.

How to Prevent Scammers from Bypassing 2FA

As cybercriminals grow more sophisticated, bolstering the Two-Factor Verification process is critical for both businesses and their consumers.

Mobile and FinTech: Creating Synergy

The massive growth of mobile phones has also turned Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) into key drivers of growth and financial inclusion.

Fortifying Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a key requirement in ensuring a safe and secure transaction in the digital world.

Building Trust in Healthcare Using Digital Identity

From banking to e-commerce, industries have adopted digital identity verification in an attempt to make services more transparent, secure, and agile. The healthcare sector is not far behind.

How to Overcome Customer Service Challenges Caused by Fragmented Identity Data

As more companies embrace digital, flawless customer service has become a prerequisite for businesses to differentiate themselves in a highly competitive environment.

Move Over SSN – Here’s Why Phone Numbers Are the New National Identifiers

Because of the diversity and volume of digital data associated directly and indirectly with phone numbers, more and more companies are adopting them as superior identifiers to traditional identity verification sources

SIM Swap Fraud is Preventable – Why Aren’t More Companies Doing Something About It?

The focus of the Princeton study, Senator Wyden’s letter, and really most of what has been written on the internet about SIM swap fraud has been the role that mobile carriers play in attackers carrying out fraud.

Prove announces UK launch of Mobile Authentication, reducing reliance on SMS one-time passcodes to mobile devices

The technology has already been adopted by one of the world’s largest banks based within the UK as a way to meet government regulations whilst also enhancing the customer experience.

3 Ways Companies Can Cut Call Center Wait Times Dramatically

The longer your customers have to wait in your call center, the worse their customer experience is going to be.

Prove raises $100M for its mobile phone-based digital verification and ID platform

TechCrunch reporter Ingrid Lunden covered the news of our $100 million funding round led by Apax Digital in an exclusive

3 CX Fixes That Reduce Form Abandonment and Thwart Identity Fraud

81% of people recently abandoned at least one online form and most won’t return to complete it. The top two reasons?

How to Stop Digital Banking Application Abandonment

Digital onboarding abandonment is one of the biggest hurdles faced by banks in registering new customers through online channels.

What is Phone Intelligence?

Be Ready for Unprecedented Mobile Usage for Financial Services in 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to implement much-needed improvements in mobile channels.

How to Drive More Revenue Using Identity Pre-Fill Technology

Interested in learning more about how your company can improve your customer experiences and secure onboarding by pre-filling identity? Download our detailed white paper, Leveraging Modern Identity - Drive Revenue, Not Abandonment.

Strengthen Your Identity Authentication Using Phone-Centric Identity – A Shield Against Identity Fraud

Identity theft continues to be the most common contributor to fraud globally, and it is rising since...

Is Inaccurate Data Damaging Your Business and Your Bottom Line?

68% of companies recognize that data quality issues are an obstacle to digital transformation (source: Experian), while companies with “high-quality data management” generated 66% more revenue than companies with insufficient data quality strategies (source: SiriusDecisions). For businesses, the negative impacts of poor data quality include productivity loss, operational expense, reputational damage, and missed marketing, sales or relationship-deepening opportunities. For customers, poor data quality often makes it difficult to complete processes designed for self-service.

Top Five Predictions for Financial Services in 2021

The Financial Services industry was already undergoing significant digital transformation before 2020. However, the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted and accelerated the need to implement much-needed improvements in customer experience, support the digital-first customer, improve identity and authentication processes, and create new ways to serve customers better. As we head into 2021, these themes will continue to dominate the financial services landscape.

PSD2 SCA Deadline Nears: How to Comply Using 3DS2 and Phone-Centric Identity™

As the end of 2020 draws near, banks and payment service providers in the European Union face yet another PSD2 deadline. Full enforcement of the much-debated Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) across the region will begin from January 1, 2021*. This implementation comes under extraordinary circumstances caused by the pandemic. Much of Europe has moved into another phase of lockdowns, causing a shift in shopping behavior from brick-and-mortar to digital. The change in purchasing habits has also brought in several first-time online shoppers.

4 Multi-Factor Vulnerabilities to Watch Out For

Black Friday is right around the corner and while bargain hunters are preparing to find the best deals, fraudsters are making plans to prey on unsuspecting consumers. If your company uses multi-factor authentication (MFA) such as one-time SMS passwords (OTPs) to safeguard customer accounts, you might think you’re covered. But our recently published analysis of over 385,000 retroactive SMS & Voice OTP transactions, conducted using our Trust Score™ technology, unearthed 4 concerning multi-factor authentication vulnerabilities:

Prove’s Explosive Growth Recognized by Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500™ for Fourth Consecutive Year

NEW YORK, November 19, 2020 – Prove, the modern platform for phone identity, today announced it has been named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America, for the fourth year in a row.

New Study by Prove Unveils Large-Scale Consumer Multi-Factor Authentication Vulnerabilities

New York, NY (November 18, 2020) – Prove, the modern platform for phone identity, today announced the release of a new analysis highlighting critical consumer multi-factor authentication (MFA) vulnerabilities.

How to Close the Trust Gap and Approve More Customers Online

“Trust gap” is a term that has been trending since the start of the COVID pandemic – have you heard of it? It refers to the discrepancy between the percentage of customers that companies can trust and greenlight immediately in-person vs. how many they can trust online. With more and more consumers interacting online than ever before, and more fraudsters taking advantage of that surge, the trust gap is forcing companies to put more security hurdles in place, hindering the customer experience.

Instnt selects Prove's modern, phone number-based identity authentication

Digital onboarding platform Instnt announced today that it has selected Prove as its identity authentication partner based on the company's modern way of authenticating identity based on the phone number.

Prove Sees 300% Increase in YoY New Business Wins, Now Serves 9 of the Top 10 Financial Institutions

Increase in Digital Transactions Drives Surge in Demand for Prove’s Modern Identity Authentication Technology

Join Prove at Aite Financial Crime Forum 2020

Heading to Aite Group's Financial Crime Forum on 9/16-9/17? Stop by our virtual booth to learn how financial institutions can use phone intelligence to mitigate fraud such as new account fraud while also enhancing the customer experience. This year's event is free for financial institutions!