Our take on Gaming Regulations in India with insights from Nishith Desai Associates Only someone who’s been living under a rock for the last two years would have missed the explosion of real money-skill gaming in India. What used to be, at best, a niche activity amongst hardcore sports fans is now, right in the
Every time the driver starts a trip, the Uber app running on his smartphone can take his selfie and match it with the picture saved with them. Further, it can run a Liveness check to ensure that the selfie is ‘live’ and not a picture-of-a-picture. Uber has got banned in London. For the second time.
We have been gathering insights based on our research on instances of fraud in the recent past. And the more stories we hear, the more we realise about the countless different ways of getting defrauded. However, there is one thread that connects most of the stories we came across.
We live in interesting times. People are predicting the end of jobs (through machines), the end of diseases (again through machines), and the end of governments, and monetary/fiscal policies (through tech that run machines). There’ll be disruptions galore in the coming years. AI, Data Science, and Blockchain will be replaced by newer and fancier buzzwords.
I enjoy art and I was nervous for my session but Oh Boy! I did not expect fifty people. But there I was, in a dark room with a projector and people waiting to listen to me, in rapt silence. I did not expect the hall to be so full. Judith slaying Holofernes is a
A guest column is written by Wriju Ray (co-founder, and CBO at IDfy) on Aadhaar offline XML, published in ET Prime on March 25, 2019 If the Supreme Court’s Aadhaar Judgment on 26th Sep had shocked the industry into silence, the Aadhaar Amendment Ordinance has breathed a new lease of life into it. However, questions
Organisations from all sectors today are competing over the same pool of employees, customers, partners, and merchants. At such times, to have a competitive advantage over other businesses, you need a quick and frictionless document verification process. But, the traditional document verification process tells a different story: Requires physical presence of both the parties (verifier
If you have ever opened a bank account, you have performed the KYC process. KYC or Know Your Customer is used to verify a person’s identity. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it mandatory for banks to perform the KYC procedure for their customers. Here’s a list of documents that are required as part
A few weeks ago, I applied to open a savings account at a private bank. Around the same time, I applied for a credit card with a fintech company. One was a paper-intensive process, the other a single-click one (well, almost). Through these two contrasting experiences, I understood how the promise of CKYC is still
How does ‘pineapple on pizza’ sound to you? Weird or great? I felt something similar when I first heard of HR professionals asking for APIs. It sounds interesting but we’re simply not used to that combo. On recent demo calls with our BGV sales folks, I have heard some HRs ask for ‘API-led’ BGV solutions.
Imagine a normal Monday morning. A mug of coffee on your desk as you prepare to work through your inbox, alt-tabbing with your calendar. There are interviews to be scheduled, offers letters to be sent, and a few onboarding verification checks to be initiated. You notice a slight commotion in the office and look up
We have news for you. Fake photos sure make a good meme, but not everybody loves it. As businesses continue their digital drive and digital documentation becomes more the norm than the exception, we are witnessing an exponential rise in the number of people with great photo editing skills and low morals. Image tampering is
