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Sole proprietorships vs. LLCs: how to verify small businesses

KYC, KYB, and AML laws require financial institutions to verify a company’s (and its beneficial owners’) identity before offering the business financial services or products. We break down the nuances of onboarding sole props vs. LLCs.

Why knowledge-based authentication (KBA) is not effective

Alloy CTO, Charles Hearn, uses his own knowledge-based authentication (KBA) questions to prove why they are an not effective approach to identity verification.

Baker Hill Partners with Alloy to Help Financial Institutions Verify More Loan Applicants & Mitigate Fraud Risks

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What is ambient fraud?

The most common type of fraud is one you might not have heard of yet. Here’s how to identify and combat ambient fraud.

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Eight years of bringing Alloy’s vision, mission, and values to life

Alloy's co-founder and CEO, Tommy Nicholas, reflects on the foundations that help inform everything we do here at Alloy.

DEI @ Alloy: February 2023 roundup

Our DEI committee and employee resource groups (ERGs) are continuing to put together awesome events and volunteer opportunities for Alloy employees. Take a look at what went on over the past 30 days, including Black History Month and Lunar New Year celebrations.

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Why collaboration is key to fighting fraud

Alloy CEO Tommy Nicholas reacts to new State of Fraud Benchmark Report.

Identity decisioning platform Alloy launches in the UK

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Enigma Partners with Alloy to Diversify Access to Small Business Intelligence

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What is transaction monitoring?

In the age of dating apps, you have to sift through a lot of weird texts and bad first dates before you find your perfect match. Oddly enough, fintech companies and banks follow a similar process when they onboard new customers and monitor their ongoing financial activity.

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.

More than two-thirds of financial institutions lost over $500K to fraud in 2022, Alloy report finds

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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.

Alloy to Help Future-proof the Next Billion Crypto Users

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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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How to scale your fraud prevention

This guide illustrates how to scale a fraud prevention strategy by balancing coverage, cost, and user experience.

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