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DEI @ Alloy: January 2023 roundup

Alloy’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group (ERG), Out & About, kicked off the year with a bang 💥— hosting our first ERG event of the year and biggest ERG event to date, a drag competition for charity to benefit Lambda Legal.

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How to stay compliant with sanctions screening obligations

Breaking down sanctions watchlists screening, know-your-counterparties, and more.

Alloy’s 2022 year in review

Looking back at the good (Alloy’s global expansion🌎), the bad (crypto crash📉), and the ugly (Taylor Swift ticket-gate🎟)

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Framing fintech: chatting with fintech founder & investor, Aaron Frank, pt 2

Framing Fintech is a blog series where our GM of Fintech, Charley Ma, interviews leaders in the industry. In part two of Charley Ma's conversation with Aaron Frank, Aaron unpacks the key customer lifecycle events for credit cards, areas where credit card companies get it wrong, and types of fraud that credit card companies should be looking out for.

DEI @ Alloy: December 2022 roundup

As we wrapped up the 2022 calendar year, our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) continued to put on some stellar events. Read on to catch up on how Trail Blazers, Black Alliance, AAPI @ Alloy, and HOLA closed out the year.

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Alloy launches new capabilities to enable clients to accelerate growth

Alloy streamlines global identity management with new features that help clients operating across markets stay compliant with local KYC and AML regulations while preventing fraud.

Why your KYB is only as good as your KYC

While much of the digital KYC (or know-your-customer) process can be automated today, its business counterpart—KYB, or “know your business”—still requires significant manual work for most financial institutions (FIs). We’re here to unpack the delicate relationship between KYC and KYB. A smooth KYC process can keep your team’s KYB workload manageable at scale, even when onboarding businesses of different types and sizes.

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Alloy expands crypto capabilities

We’re excited to announce Alloy’s identity and risk offering for crypto companies. We’ve been working with our existing crypto customers to build out a robust package of best practices and features. We’ve also deepened our coverage by forming data partnerships and integrations with crypto-native providers such as Chainalysis, Fiat Republic, and Fortress, making Alloy’s Identity Decisioning Platform even more powerful for crypto companies.

Framing fintech: chatting with fintech founder & investor, Aaron Frank, pt 1

In the new edition of Framing Fintech, Charley Ma sat down with Aaron Frank to get his advice on how new credit card startups should approach launching a credit product.

Fintech leaders share compliance, fraud concerns heading into 2023

A lot changed in fintech over the past year. 2021 was the year of the fintech founder. We saw epic funding rounds, huge valuations, and a number of lucrative exits. A year later, the market has shifted dramatically, priorities have changed, and fintech leaders are adapting to the new normal. Alloy and Gartner Peer Insights surveyed 100 fintech leaders to find out how the macroeconomic environment is affecting them.

DEI @ Alloy: November 2022 roundup

Alloy’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are hitting their stride as Trail Blazers and Out & About threw some spectacular events this past month.

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New report shows how banks and neobanks are responding to increased demand for personalized experiences

Customers want more personalized experiences. How does digital banking stack up? Gartner Peer Insights and Alloy surveyed 100 bank leaders to understand what their organizations are doing to provide a personalized and digital customer experience.

Alloy’s SDK powers the future of step-up verification

Alloy's SDK offers a codeless solution for customer onboarding and multi-vendor management. Integrate once and iterate endlessly without wasting engineering resources.

Alloy announces new features to fight fraud including codeless SDK

In response to the dramatic increase in fraud rates over the last year, Alloy has launched new features to help companies continue to grow while keeping up with the pace of fraud.

Fraud Startups announce $100B in new funding

Fraud Startups — the technologically savvy, well-funded, nimble, growth-oriented, and organized network of fraudsters — today announced they raised nearly $100B in a new funding round led by pandemic relief fraud. What are FIs doing about this?

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DEI @ Alloy: October 2022 roundup

Alloy’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) have continued to throw some incredible events over the past month to educate and connect our employees. We had a few more events honoring National Hispanic Heritage Month hosted by HOLA, a Mid-Autumn Festival party hosted by AAPI @ Alloy, and a National Coming Out Day storytime session hosted by our Out & About ERG.

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As the OCC takes closer aim at BaaS, banks and fintech companies need to do some trust exercises

In a recent article for Bank Automation News, our Director of Compliance, Clint Hewyworth, outlines the current regulatory landscape for bank/fintech partnerships and shares advice on how banks and fintech companies can strengthen their relationships in light of increased regulation.

Alloy and Stash team up to advance our shared mission of financial inclusion

We’re thrilled to announce that Alloy is teaming up with Stash to help launch their innovative new platform, Stash Core. Alloy’s Identity Decisioning Platform provides ongoing fraud monitoring to keep Stash’s customers’ assets secure.

DEI @ Alloy: September 2022 roundup

This month, we continued to support our newly launched Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) get off the ground and host some of their first events. We’ve also got some interesting stats about our ERGs to share.

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To reach fintech’s next level, infrastructure providers must address these pain points

Alloy CRO, Laura Spiekerman, writes about how infrastructure providers can help fintech companies address fraud and other common fintech pain points.

Fraudsters adapt. So should your fraud prevention strategy.

We asked Yigit Yildirim, Socure’s Vice President and Head of Fraud & Risk, to offer his perspective on the modern identity fraud stack, paths to optimize fraud efficacy, and consider how forward-thinking fraud teams should prepare for changing economic conditions.

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More money, less fraud

Alloy announces $52 million in additional Series C

Employee Spotlight: Kenny Vargas

For our latest installment of our Employee Spotlight series, I talked to Kenny about how he juggles working at Alloy and being a new father.

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NFTs: fraud or the future?

NFTs are a misunderstood innovation. While they may seem like a speculative asset class, many more potential use cases exist. But fraud is unfortunately rampant, and it's important to understand what will drive positive (or increasingly risky) developments in this space.

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