Industry News

Last week we were at DataIQ in London, a gathering of the leading data providers, marketers and industry experts and hosted by our partners Callcredit.

Last week we were at the first Trust In The Digital World event organised by Trust In Digital Life (TDL) and EEMA (The European Association for e-identity and security) and hosted by DG Connect at the European Commission.

Market analyst and advisory company Ctrl-Shift has published a Briefing Paper “Breakthrough Efficiency: the power of volunteered information”.

As the issue and importance of trust online continues to gather momentum, it was fantastic to join some of our fellow Respect Network founding partners for the "Trust on the Internet" program on Trust Across America yesterday.

A recent report by Javelin Strategy & Research in the US '2013 IDENTITY FRAUD REPORT: Data Breaches Becoming a Treasure Trove for Fraudsters' is the latest piece of industry research to highlight the growing problem of identity-related fraud.

We are very proud to have been placed on the 2013 FinTech 50 Watchlist, a collaborative project between The CEO Agenda, ICON, Silicon Valley Bank, Hotwire & Fox Williams.

Our CEO James Varga was interviewed by TheCEOAgenda on how miiCard makes it safe to transact online though trusted and proven online identities. Watch the interview here:

Last week we hosted the first Trust In Digital Life (TDL) meeting for the year. A European community formed by leading industry partners and institutes, TDL is working to increase trust levels, security and privacy on the web.

In his welcoming address miiCard's James Varga signaled the rise of customer-driven Bring Your Own Identity (BYOID) solutions as being core to creating greater trust online.

We were pleased to host the first working group meeting of the year for Trust In Digital Life at The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh on Monday, and it was fantastic to see the group making great progress on increasing trust levels, security and privacy in our connected, online world.

Here's a great podcast from The Economist's Mark Johnson concerning recent developments

Identity fraud is now the biggest single cause of all fraud, the UK's Fraud Prevention Service CIFAS revealed in their Annual Report issued last week.

CIFAS found fraud is up 5% overall compared to 2011, and of that, more than 50% was made up of identity related fraud.