The digital drive to replace the passport in financial services

February 17, 2020

Despite the onward march of technology, especially in the financial services sector, methods of authentication and identity confirmation appear to be falling behind the curve. While biometrics may be making inroads into the industry, the passport and the paper document remain the dominant way that many organizations authenticate their users via know your customer (KYC) checks and controls, which have become an ever-more important factor in a banks’ success.

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Fidelis is a financial company specialised in corporate foreign exchange services. Owned 100% privately with no shareholders, we incur no loss making activities. Fidelis provides SPOT and FORWARD contracts to a client base of FTSE-listed companies, several financial institutions in Europe and the Americas, many SMEs around the globe and some private banks in the Baltic region.

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