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Money Muling Detection and Prevention

Money muling activities can be detected and prevented with a robust AML & KYC solution. Here's how.

What is Micro Laundering?

As fraudsters seek ways to move large amounts of cash online without attracting the attention, here's what you should know about micro laundering

How To Make Identity Verification Interesting at Sign Up

Keeping users engaged during an identity verification process can be taxing. But there are ways to make the process interesting!

How to Fix Online Identity Verification Challenges Facing Your Business

As more businesses continue to adopt the use of online platforms, staying AML compliant and authenticating customers is critical to building trust

What is ATO Fraud and How Can it be Prevented?

ATO fraud unlocks access to a victim’s personal information. Here's how to prevent it

What is FINRA?

FINRA enacts rules governing financial activities which brokers and dealers are encouraged to implement in their AML program

How to Prevent Fraud and Reduce Onboarding Friction with Liveness Detection

Raise the assurance level of user onboarding and prevent spoofing attacks with Liveness Detection

What TV Shows Don’t Tell You About Money Laundering

Not all you see on TV is obtainable in reality. Here’s what TV shows don’t tell you about money laundering

How to Recognize Fake Documents and Secure Your Business

With the spike in identity theft and fraud, how can you recognize forged documents and save your business?

Tips for Taking Verification Selfie With ID Card

Taking a verification selfie with ID card can be tasking sometimes. Here are tips to help guide you.

AML vs. KYC: Differences and Similarities [All You Need to Know]

Understanding AML vs KYC helps you integrate their processes easily. Here are their similarities and differences

How crypto companies can avoid AML fines and penalties

Crypto and virtual assets trading is getting regulated and platforms need to keep up. Here’s how to avoid AML fines and penalties

Money Laundering Prevention Tips & Strategies for Fintech Businesses

Here are money laundering prevention tips and strategies to help protect your crypto or fintech business

Best Practices for Transaction Monitoring for Crypto

Guide to transaction monitoring for crypto - best practices to build AML compliance programs

Getting started on suspicious activity reports for crypto

An overview of AML regulatory reporting and KYC for better fraud prevention for growing companies

Passbase raises $13.5M to help crypto solve KYC

After 8x revenue growth in 2021, Passbase is expanding its product suite to help businesses manage complex, international compliance requirements

Should NFT platforms have KYC to verify users' identities?

An overview of considerations of KYC and AML regulations and how they can increase security for companies handling NFTs

Using KYC Strategy for Conversion Rate Optimization

How to improve your user onboarding UX with identity verification

Tips to Pass Online Identity Verification

FAQs and troubleshooting tips to help customers pass your KYC checks

Introducing Ongoing Monitoring for AML

Create your own customized AML screening logic to handle scaling operations

Ahead of regulations: 5 ways KYC has improved product UX

How digital services have introduced identity verification to increase trust, security, and operational efficiency

Introducing CDC Covid Vaccination Card Scans

A frictionless way to increase safety and assurance for in-person events through the Covid-19 pandemic

Overview to PEPs for product teams

A quick guide to definitions, regulations, risk-based approaches and how identity verification can help

An AML overview for digital companies

An overview of money laundering, AML regulations, and ways that businesses can increase security, reduce fraud, and stay compliant

It's 2021. Diversity cannot stay reactive

3 initiatives I started since becoming Head of People at Passbase

We are announcing our $3.6M seed round

Just six months after their pre-seed round [...]

2021: A Year in Review at Passbase

Highlights and new ID verification features from the team building digital identity infrastructure for online businesses

How programmatic identity verification will power Web 3.0

How smart verification policies and workflows will scale businesses for Web 3.0

Ongoing Monitoring for Crypto: 8 Factors for Integration

Cover your AML compliance bases with updated customer profiles as you grow your business

Webinar Recap: Building Customer-Centric KYC in FinTech

Linus and Microblink share how they help customers succeed with KYC through automation, micro interactions, and customer service

Using KYC for fraud detection and prevention in crypto

How forward-thinking companies can use KYC to verify users and create more robust fraud prevention systems

Using security by design for crypto KYC implementation

How to use identity verification as part of a security by design strategy

5 tips for using KYC in your customer success strategy

How CX teams can use identity verifiation to build customer confidence and trust

5 risk management considerations for identity verification

A risk management framework for IT managers when selecting an identity verification service provider

How to get started on vendor security assessments

Upgrade your company’s risk management

Introducing Passbase Identity Auditor

Secure your business with contextual identity data

How we pivoted to solve the identity verification gap

Taking on the challenge to build better compliance and KYC identity verification services

How 5 crypto companies use KYC

An overview of companies at the intersection of FinTech, crypto, DeFi, gaming and media use KYC

How to get ahead of crypto regulations

Highlights about crypto regulation from Zebedee, Donut and Cowboy Ventures

Webinar: How to Get Ahead of Crypto Regulation

Crypto industry leaders from Zebedee, Donut and Cowboy Ventures discuss KYC and building compliance programs as part of regulatory strategy

An overview of the latest crypto regulations for APAC

The latest crypto regulations for APAC markets such as South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, The Philippines, and Thailand

Passbase vs Jumio: A Service Comparison

Covering identity verification services offered by Passbase and Jumio as well as their features, applications and pricing

Passbase vs Onfido: A Service Comparison

A look at identity verification services provided by Passbase and Onfido

The FATF Travel Rule for Crypto [EXPLAINED]

How KYC helps crypto companies comply with AML/CFT regulations and confidently serve global markets

Passbase vs Veriff:  A Service Comparison

Identity verification services offered by Passbase and Veriff considering features, security and pricing

What is a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP)?

What crypto, blockchain, and digital asset companies should note

Crypto KYC & Identity Verification: What companies should know

How KYC helps crypto companies stay ahead of regulations and build trust

What’s new in the EU’s AML/CFT package?

An overview of implications for the crypto industry

Fair play: Age verification in online gambling and eSports

How age verification helps gaming businesses open up new markets

Passbase becomes the first identity verification provider to accept cryptocurrency

Passbase will be accepting bitcoin and ethereum

Passbase Webinars: Navigating the Tension Between Security and Conversion

Insights from Cameron D'Ambrosi from One World Identity and Moiz Malik from Nooklyn

Introducing Advanced Customization

Create branded identity verification flows with logo, color, font, document selections and more

Reflections on intersectional inclusion

Reflecting on how we inclusion can be incorporated throughout company culture and product design

Founder-led sales: from zero to 100+ clients in a year

Our go-to-market strategy for identity verification

What is 6AMLD? A Quick Overview of the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive

Summary of the 6AMLD and 5 things to help you stay compliant

Passbase has upgraded its liveness detection

Passbase has introduced a new video liveness detection to improve user onboarding experience and reduce fraud prevention

UK’s AI-Based Apartment Rental Market Leader Mashroom Selects Passbase to Provide Secure Onboarding and Verification

Passbase’s liveness detection powered identity verification service enables Mashroom customers to securely sign up and rent an apartment in just a few steps.

Age verification for online retail

How cannabis and alcohol retailers can make age verification work for their business, not against it

What is KYC? A guide for product teams

Understand Know Your Customer requirements for your product and services, from ecommerce to crypto

Introducing reusable documents

Accelerate identity verifications with reusable documents for end users

Introducing Identity Timeline

Track user authentications and events with ease

Introducing Biometric Authentication

Unifying identity verification and secure user logins

Flip the script - being a human in interviews

How to discover talented people and make an impression on candidates

Best practices for interviews

How to bring on top-tier talent to your growing startup

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Why digital identity verification is gaining ground

The paradigm shift to digital identity verification to fight fraud and retain users

2020 Year in Review - Shaping the Future of Digital Identification

How we worked to build online trust through 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic and a sneak peek of what’s to come

Passbase welcomes Sidney François as VP of Product

B2B technology veteran CPO to lead the company's product vision

Zapier and Passbase integration guide

Set up your identity verification workflow automation with Zapier

30 tools to supercharge your company’s performance

Discover the tools you need to keep productivity up while managing a remote team

Reauthentication - the future of digital user identification

Reauthentication from Passbase helps verify returning users faster and speed up account recovery, age verification and more

Identity verification service guide: how to choose the right IDV software

Important criteria to keep in mind when choosing the right identity software for your business

The ultimate guide to identity verification in sports betting and online gambling

As the industry is set to grow by $114 billion, so will the risks around it. Learn what they are and where you need KYC and AML in sports betting and online gambling

We've partnered with Appjobs to enhance identity verification for the gig economy

Our identity and document verification technology will help the world’s largest gig economy platform provide an end to end solution for managing on demand work

What is a Customer Identification Program (CIP)?

Are you a FinTech operating in the US? Here's everything you need to know about the US-based Customer Identity Program (CIP)

Las Vegas PRIDE teams up with Passbase for seamless identity verification

We're thrilled to help the non profit digitize faster and in a more secure way by using the company’s no code identity verification solution

How to educate users about identity verification

3 things your users should know about identity verification to maximize conversion

Passbase welcomes Dan Lee as VP of Sales as we continue to grow

Industry veteran brings 15 years of sales and team development experience to new role as we continue to grow globally.

Linus partners with Passbase for its new crypto-powered cash deposit account

ID checks and our AML compliance solution will help the emerging FinTech scale effortlessly

What are the different authentication methods?

Businesses are facing increasing risks and a large part of this can be tackled through proper authentication. In this post, we look at its different forms.

Boundless and Passbase unveil the future of remote [...]

Our identity verification solution will enable the remote employment company to expand and verify users at scale.

Strong identity verification alternatives

Adoption of identity verification is growing. But does every company need a solution this rigorous? We look at the other options that companies can explore.

Digital identity: providing data privacy and building trust online

A concise look at digital identities and how governments and businesses around the world are embracing them.

Why secure user management is key to winning customer trust

A practical guide to user management and how businesses can manage risk through strong user management practices

Looking for a Jumio alternative with flexible pricing?

User verification with pay-as-go pricing that helps your conversion rates

Fighting fraud with document watermarking

Here's our take on watermarking at Passbase and how we're building a more secure digital environment for our customers.

Our principles for managing distributed teams and [...]

The lessons we've learned being a distributed team from day one and how we manage working remotely during Covid-19.

Supporting health startups with ID verification during Covid

We’re offering priority integration support and no subscription fees for any health company.

How biometrics perform identity authentication

We look under the hood of the technology that's regarded as the most reliable methods of identity authentication.

What is the difference between authentication vs verification?

Verification vs authentication might look confusing and are sometimes used interchangeably. Here we settle the score.

What is biometric authentication?

Biometric authentication is used by both businesses and individuals. But how exactly does it work?

Case study: GigZoo partners with Passbase

How GigZoo uses Passbase to verify rockstars and gain a competitive edge in its industry.

Identity proofing: how to prevent identity theft online

A handy guide for users and businesses on how to conduct identity proofing and prevent online identity theft.

Facebook and Google are tracking you

Data collection and tracking is still a huge problem. Here you can learn what to do about it.

Biometric authentication: is facial recognition the new security standard?

Facial recognition is touted as a key security enhancement. We explore the business challenges the technology can solve.

Driving license check: why strong authentication is critical

Driving license checks are crucial to authenticate people on the web.

We are welcoming Georg Vooglaid to Passbase

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How Age verification benefits digital businesses

How biometrics and identity verification and secure businesses with age-restricted goods and services

Why digital identities drive security and privacy

And how it can help enterprises mitigate fraud, focus on data privacy and protect people's [...]

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Why decentralization matters

The Internet is a playground — one that has enabled some of the biggest innovations across ...