Infoglide Blog

Douglas Wood, Infoglide Senior Vice President In the months and years following the tragic events of 9/11, global governments introduced a variety of homeland security acts designed to stop the flow of money funding terrorism.  As such, Section 314(a) of the US Patriot Act was a milestone in the fight against terrorist financing and money [...]

  Douglas Wood, Infoglide Senior VP I confess. I have ‘borrowed’ some product and sales messages from people outside of the company from time to time. But, in fairness, these people are usually recognized industry experts. Take Ken Rijock, for example. Mr. Rijock is a former banking attorney at an international law firm. He’s also [...]

The International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI) annual conference begins next week in Charlotte, NC.  The association, a non-profit international organization, provides an environment within which information about financial fraud, fraud investigation and fraud prevention methods can be collected, exchanged and taught for the common good of the industry.  Infoglide Software Corporation is a proud sponsor [...]

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing The Aite Group recently authored a report entitled “Internal Fraud: The Devil Within.” After surveying 35 fraud and product executives at financial institutions across the U.S. and Canada, they concluded that internal fraud is a severe and growing problem that often goes undetected and almost always flies [...]

By Douglas Wood, Infoglide Senior Vice President International companies, particularly those in the financial services markets, have long struggled to comply with the varying data privacy laws of the countries in which they operate.  Simple data analysis practices in one region of the world may or may not be acceptable in another, and the penalties [...]

By Douglas Wood, Infoglide Senior Vice President On the heels of the very successful Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) conference last month comes an industry event which represents investigators of financial crimes and fraud.  The International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI) meets in Washington, DC next week with an agenda that is chock [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO It’s been quite awhile since we’ve addressed the challenge of balancing security and privacy. As authors of the software used more times every day than all other identity resolution software combined (video: Who Is Infoglide Software?), we are extremely conscious of how critical it is to strike a balance [...]

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Director of Marketing The accepted meaning of “multi-factor authentication” is employing at least two of the three standard factors used to authenticate identities: something the user knows (e.g. , PIN or password) something the user has (e.g., ATM or smart card) something the user is (e.g., biometric such as fingerprint) Building [...]

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Director of Marketing Who’d have thought that iTunes could be used for money laundering? Yet that is exactly what five men in Great Britain were recently jailed for the other day. Using stolen credit card numbers, they bought £750,000 in vouchers, then sold them at cheaper prices over eBay. Methods of [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Judging from recent remarks by Dr. Leonard Schaefer and Edward Lull Jr., the need for identity resolution is heightened by the turbulent economic circumstances of the “interesting times” we find ourselves living in.  While specifically referring to name analytics in a recent article in [...]