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Networks of Trust: How Digital Identity Can Solve Key Barriers to Transformation in Financial Services

Networks of Trust: How Digital Identity Can Solve Key Barriers to Transformation in Financial Services

by | Jun 18, 2020 | Blog, Events, iComply Insights

Fireside Chat – Networks of Trust

How Digital Identity Can Solve Key Barriers to Transformation in Financial Services

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2020, 10am PST – 1pm EST – 7pm CET

 

Can digital identity unlock new business models in financial services?
Will new regulations for privacy, client authentication, and data impact my IT infrastructure?

As an industry, financial service providers are just beginning to decipher these questions. New initiatives such as digital charters, open banking, and verified networks of trust have made significant technological progress but lack a common standard or interoperability. Without a trusted and ubiquitous framework for digital identity authentication, however, these applications are limited in their potential to isolated networks.

Join “Networks of trust: how digital identity can solve key barriers to transformation in financial services” live fireside chat with industry experts and thought leaders to discuss:

  • What is digital identity? Key characteristics of digital identities
  • What are the barriers to mass consumer adoption of digital identity?
  • Can single sign-on solutions or identity and access management providers be used to improve the client experience of KYC procedures?


Join this Fireside Chat on digital identity on June 25th, featuring a live panel of industry experts and thought leaders across various industries on this critical aspect of the future of financial services.

Register today!

About iComply
iComply Investor Services Inc. (“iComply”) is a Regtech company that provides fully-digital KYC and AML compliance solutions for non-face-to-face financial and legal interactions. iComply enables financial services providers to reduce costs, risk, and complexity and improve staff capacity, effectiveness, and customer experience. By partnering with multinational technology vendors such as Microsoft, DocuSign, Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv, iComply is bringing compliance teams into the digital age. Learn more: www.icomplyis.com

 

iComply Outlines Vision of a Trusted Digital Ecosystem in Newly Released White Paper
iComply Outlines Vision of a Trusted Digital Ecosystem in Newly Released White Paper

May 31, 2023

iComply’s white paper, “The Importance of Digital Identity in the Modern World,” delves into the challenges of our current digital identity landscape, presents an optimistic vision for the future, and outlines our mission to create a trusted, secure digital ecosystem. This document is a must-read for anyone invested in shaping a future where every transaction is secure, private, and compliant.

Travel Rule Facts: What to Know About FATF’s Recommendation 16
Travel Rule Facts: What to Know About FATF’s Recommendation 16

May 3, 2023

Are you aware of the key details pertaining to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s Travel Rule? As a relative newcomer into the global securities and digital legislation field, the Travel Rule—also referred to as “FATF Recommendation 16”—has garnered significant...

Digital Securities: 2020 & Beyond

Digital Securities: 2020 & Beyond

by | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog, Events, iComply Insights

Fireside Chat – Digital Securities: 2020 and Beyond

What Is The Next Chapter For Digital Securities?

Date: Thursday, June 25, 2020, 10am PST – 1pm EST – 7pm CET

 

Are Stablecoins, Money Market Tokens, and Structured Products The Next Big Thing in Digital Securities?

Digital securities – an electronic representation of shares, equity, debt on public blockchain – have attracted the attention of the world’s largest banks and corporations for their potential to reduce transaction costs and friction, increase liquidity and transparency in capital markets.

Recently, World Bank Group, JPMorgan, and Societe Generale have made headlines with debt securities and stablecoins. Despite leading experts worldwide predicting the global expansion of digital securities and interest from institutional players is growing – we are still far from mainstream adoption.

iComply is hosting a “Digital Securities: 2020 & Beyond” fireside chat to discuss the current state of the digital securities industry, the role of regulation in mass adoption, as well as benefits and pitfalls of putting structured financial instruments onto public blockchains:

  • Overhyped or underestimated: what is the real value that digital securities can bring to the financial industry
  • Digital securities regulation: what are the key regulatory updates and trends to watch related to digital securities?
  • The future of digital securities: is institutional adoption happening and when?


Register below for free to join the discussion with the leading experts in finance and blockchain.

Register Now

Panelists:

  • Joel Telpner, Senior Partner, Sullivan & Worcester
  • Matthew Unger, CEO, iComply Investor Services
  • Cathy Yoon, Special Counsel, Katten Muchin Rosenman 
  • Arnaud Salomon, CEO, Mt Pelerin

About iComply
iComply Investor Services Inc. (“iComply”) is a Regtech company that provides fully-digital KYC and AML compliance solutions for non-face-to-face financial and legal interactions. iComply enables financial services providers to reduce costs, risk, and complexity and improve staff capacity, effectiveness, and customer experience. By partnering with multinational technology vendors such as Microsoft, DocuSign, Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv, iComply is bringing compliance teams into the digital age. Learn more: www.icomplyis.com

 

iComply Outlines Vision of a Trusted Digital Ecosystem in Newly Released White Paper
iComply Outlines Vision of a Trusted Digital Ecosystem in Newly Released White Paper

May 31, 2023

iComply’s white paper, “The Importance of Digital Identity in the Modern World,” delves into the challenges of our current digital identity landscape, presents an optimistic vision for the future, and outlines our mission to create a trusted, secure digital ecosystem. This document is a must-read for anyone invested in shaping a future where every transaction is secure, private, and compliant.

Travel Rule Facts: What to Know About FATF’s Recommendation 16
Travel Rule Facts: What to Know About FATF’s Recommendation 16

May 3, 2023

Are you aware of the key details pertaining to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s Travel Rule? As a relative newcomer into the global securities and digital legislation field, the Travel Rule—also referred to as “FATF Recommendation 16”—has garnered significant...

Out of the Filing Cabinet, Into the Cloud

Out of the Filing Cabinet, Into the Cloud

by | May 28, 2020 | Blog, Events, iComply Insights, KYC - Know Your Customer

Fireside Chat: Out of the Filing Cabinet, Into the Cloud

How Digital Onboarding is Transforming Financial Services

Date: Thursday, June 11, 2020, 10am PST – 1pm EST – 7pm CET

 

Does KYC friction impact my ability to gain or retain market share? When it comes to onboarding a new client, financial service providers, online gaming platforms, professional service providers, and virtual asset service providers are facing increasingly complex regulatory burdens from privacy, data security, KYC, and AML legislation.

Our panel of experts will be discussing the key benefits, risks, and considerations of taking your traditional, manual onboarding procedures out of the filing cabinet and moving to automated workflows in the cloud.

Together with the leading experts in digital identity, KYC, AML, and risk management we will discuss:

  • What is digital onboarding: KYC and AML best practices
  • Traditional onboarding: cost and risks of manual procedures
  • Evolution of the onboarding workflow: tips for creating your roadmap
Register Now

Panelists 

  • Matthew Unger, CEO, iComply Investor Services
  • Denisse Rudich, Director, Rudich Consulting
  • Lav Odorovic, CEO, Forto CH 
  • Matt McGuire, Cofounder, AML Shop
  • Mariela Tanchez, Director of Marketing, Bitfoliex

About iComply
iComply Investor Services Inc. (“iComply”) is a Regtech company that provides fully-digital KYC and AML compliance solutions for non-face-to-face financial and legal interactions. iComply enables financial services providers to reduce costs, risk, and complexity and improve staff capacity, effectiveness, and customer experience. By partnering with multinational technology vendors such as Microsoft, DocuSign, Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv, iComply is bringing compliance teams into the digital age. Learn more: www.icomplyis.com

 

iComply Outlines Vision of a Trusted Digital Ecosystem in Newly Released White Paper
iComply Outlines Vision of a Trusted Digital Ecosystem in Newly Released White Paper

May 31, 2023

iComply’s white paper, “The Importance of Digital Identity in the Modern World,” delves into the challenges of our current digital identity landscape, presents an optimistic vision for the future, and outlines our mission to create a trusted, secure digital ecosystem. This document is a must-read for anyone invested in shaping a future where every transaction is secure, private, and compliant.

Travel Rule Facts: What to Know About FATF’s Recommendation 16
Travel Rule Facts: What to Know About FATF’s Recommendation 16

May 3, 2023

Are you aware of the key details pertaining to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s Travel Rule? As a relative newcomer into the global securities and digital legislation field, the Travel Rule—also referred to as “FATF Recommendation 16”—has garnered significant...

iComply Announces $2M Grant for COVID-19 Relief

iComply Announces $2M Grant for COVID-19 Relief

by | Mar 31, 2020 | Events

iComply Announces $2M Grant for COVID-19 Relief

Announcing iComply for Good, a $2M Services Grant for Government and Community Organizations Responding to COVID-19

Overview

March 31, 2020: The iComply for Good Services Grant is a $2M USD funding stream delivered for COVID-19 relief or response through eligible government agencies, registered charities, and community organizations. As the community support and engagement program for iComply Investor Services, iComply for Good‘s purpose is to strengthen the resilience, continuity, and remote operations capacity of our community organizations and social services.

Due to COVID-19, many organizations are scrambling to ensure their core functions can be safely and securely completed remotely. Governments need to identify and serve their citizens digitally. Universities, schools, and workplace education have moved online. Reporters and healthcare workers are battling misinformation and need to validate subject matter experts at scale. Charities need to accept donations and verify the source of funds without physical paperwork or face-to-face meetings.

iComply for Good is here to help these organizations survive and thrive despite the unique challenges of this new landscape.

We accomplish this by focusing on:

1. Building capacity through technology
2. Scaling impact through business process automation
3. Empowering organizations to support remote operations
4. Inspiring our peers to find creative ways to give back to our communities

Eligibility

Funding can be used to support client-side identity verification and document authentication, and e-signatures for remote operations, government subsidy claims, witnessing e-signatures digitally, source of funds, or source of wealth, KYC process automation, and AML risk intelligence data.

The following types of organizations will be prioritized in the grant assessment process:

      • Healthcare
        Meet “Know Your Patient” requirements. Support virtual consultations. Protect patient identities and personal data according to local data and privacy regulations.
      • Government
        Protect citizens’ personal information with client-side identity verification. Reduce fraud in subsidy claims processes. Directly and securely integrate verification programs into government datasets.
      • Online Education
        Move classrooms and tests online. Avoid the “streamlined onboarding” fallacy and ensure the user behind the screen today is the same person that was originally verified.
      • Charitable Organizations
        Verify the identities of new staff, volunteers, donors, and more. Perform enhanced due diligence, source of funds, and source of wealth checks according to your policies and procedure
      • Community Organizations
        We are happy to support community services and relief efforts such as verifying employees, volunteers, or stakeholders directly through your social media channel, website, email,  or mobile application.

Applying to iComply for Good

iComply for Good’s service grants program provides funds to cover 25-100% of the costs of iComply products, services, and data. 

There is no deadline to apply, and we evaluate applications on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are a government or community organization that needs digital identity resources to support remote operations, apply now!

Apply Today

 

 

Why iComply

iComply’s solution loads a unique identity verification program into your website or mobile application. This ensures your user’s data stays on their device, in their jurisdiction, and can be sent directly and securely to your own servers, websites, or applications.

Client-side verification is a new technology that reduces the cost of identity verification by up to 80% compared to API or mobile app based KYC or identity verification services. This proprietary iComply technology ensures the highest institutional standards for data privacy, processing, and retention. Deployed in minutes using drag-and-drop verification widgets, these tools can optimize remote operations.

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Is your AML compliance too expensive, time-consuming, or ineffective?

iComply enables financial services providers to reduce costs, risk, and complexity and improve staff capacity, effectiveness, and customer experience.

Request a demo today.

Paris FinTech Forum 2020: Highlights and Takeaways

Paris FinTech Forum 2020: Highlights and Takeaways

by | Feb 12, 2020 | Events

Paris FinTech Forum 2020: Highlights and Takeaways

This month, iComply attended the Paris FinTech Forum 2020 with Toronto Finance International to represent Canada alongside four other innovative companies driving digital transformation in global finance. The Paris FinTech Forum 2020 (or PFF2020) hosted many of the world’s best fintech, regtech, insurtech, and financial institutions, with a focus on the evolving European ecosystem.

The event itself was two days long, packed to the brim from 7:30 AM to 9:30 PM both days with speakers, panels, workshops, networking lounges, company demo booths, and much more.

Our head of operations, Ash Viens, presented on Stage 7 to an audience keen to learn about how iComply is driving down the cost of AML compliance in key markets such as Europe, North America, and Asia. iComply’s unique value in this market is helping compliance teams to streamline and automate many of their back-office tasks, saving thousands in compliance costs annually and multiplying the effective output of their team.

Our team also held meetings with several key European banking and lending leaders, including Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas, to demonstrate how we’re helping companies automate user validation, identity verification, document authentication, AML and CTF risk screening, and ongoing monitoring across multiple jurisdictions in real-time. These firms were most impressed with how cost-effective, robust, and easy to implement iComply was compared to other solutions they have seen previously.

When you consider the impacts of Brexit, AMLD5, the FATF Travel Rule, and new digital identity regulations being implemented worldwide, many companies struggle to maintain their compliance operations and most fall back to manual workflows. Some brands are facing the reality of losing their license altogether while others, such as Revolut have had to leave Tier 1 financial markets like the UK and seek licensing in jurisdictions with lower compliance burden and oversight.

All in all, we were thrilled to be invited by TFI to participate in this year’s Paris FinTech Forum 2020, which gave our team valuable insights and relationships in the European ecosystem.

To learn more about how iComply can save you time and money on your AML compliance requirements, click below to connect with a member of our team.

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2020 Paris Fintech Forum: iComply and Toronto Finance International

2020 Paris Fintech Forum: iComply and Toronto Finance International

by | Jan 15, 2020 | Events

2020 Paris Fintech Forum: iComply and Toronto Finance International

With the first few weeks of 2020 already behind us, our global calendar of events and conferences is filling up quickly!

Our team has been invited to join the Canadian delegation along with Toronto Finance International at what is considered one of the largest and most exclusive fintech events in the world.

iComply Investor Services will be heading to the Paris FinTech Forum from January 28th – 29th, as well as attending several trade meetings scheduled in the days leading up to, during, and following the event.

Hosted in the historical Paris stock exchange building Palais Brongniart, the 2020 Paris Fintech Forum brings together over 2,600 attendees from more than 70 countries worldwide, featuring more than 160 global fintech companies and nearly 300 speakers.

If you and your team plan on attending the Paris Fintech Forum this January, our team would love to connect with you! We will be available to meet throughout the Forum to discuss how we are helping fintech and digital finance companies across the globe.

To connect, secure a time slot in our calendar here.

Which speakers are you most excited to see and which companies are you most eager to meet at the Paris Fintech Forum? We want to hear your thoughts on what motivated you to attend, and what your partnership goals are for 2020!

Vaidyanathan Chandrashekhar

Vaidyanathan Chandrashekhar

Advisors

“Chandy,” is a technology and risk expert with executive experience at Boston Consulting Group, Citi, and PwC. With over two decades in financial services, digital transformation, and enterprise risk, he advises iComply on scalable compliance infrastructure for global markets.
Thomas Linder

Thomas Linder

Advisors

Thomas is a global tax and compliance expert with deep specialization in digital assets, blockchain, and tokenization. As a partner at MME Legal | Tax | Compliance, he advises iComply on regulatory strategy, cross-border compliance, and digital finance innovation.
Thomas Hardjono

Thomas Hardjono

Advisors

Thomas is a renowned identity and cybersecurity expert, serving as CTO of Connection Science at MIT. With deep expertise in decentralized identity, zero trust, and secure data exchange, he advises iComply on cutting-edge technology and privacy-first compliance architecture.
Rodney Dobson

Rodney Dobson

Advisors

Rodney is the former President of ADP Canada and international executive with over two decades of leadership in global HR and enterprise technology. He advises iComply with deep expertise in international service delivery, M&A, and scaling high-growth operations across regulated markets.
Praveen Mandal

Praveen Mandal

Advisors

Praveen is a serial entrepreneur and technology innovator, known for leadership roles at Lucent Bell Labs, ChargePoint, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator. He advises iComply on advanced computing, scalable infrastructure, and the intersection of AI, energy, and compliance tech.
Paul Childerhose

Paul Childerhose

Advisors

Paul is a Canadian RegTech leader and founder of Maple Peak Group, with extensive experience in financial services compliance, AML, and digital transformation. He advises iComply on regulatory alignment, operational strategy, and scaling compliance programs in complex markets.
John Engle

John Engle

Advisors

John is a seasoned business executive with senior leadership experience at CIBC, UBS, and Accenture. With deep expertise in investment banking, private equity, and digital transformation, he advises iComply on strategic growth, partnerships, and global market expansion.
Jeff Bandman

Jeff Bandman

Advisors

Jeff is a former CFTC official and globally recognized expert in financial regulation, fintech, and digital assets. As founder of Bandman Advisors, he brings deep insight into regulatory policy, market infrastructure, and innovation to guide iComply’s global compliance strategy.
Greg Pearlman

Greg Pearlman

Advisors

Greg is a seasoned investment banker with over 35 years of experience, including leadership roles at BMO Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup. Greg brings deep expertise in financial strategy and growth to support iComply's expansion in the RegTech sector.
Deven Sharma

Deven Sharma

Advisors

Deven is the former President of S&P and a globally respected authority in risk, data, and capital markets. With decades of leadership across financial services and tech, he advises iComply on strategic growth, governance, and the future of trusted data in AML compliance.