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Mitek’s Sarah Clark (general manager, identity) returns to share her company’s latest enhancement to its Mobile Verify instant ID documentation verification technology. This technology thwarts any fraudsters’ attempts to use fake IDs to get into your account via a mobile device. Mitek didn’t stop there. According to Sarah, they have enhanced the product to now […]Read More

During one part of my recent conference activity, I asked the banks in the audience how they organised their innovation strategies. The good news is that all of them have one. However, all of them have different nuances of how they structure for innovation. The most common structure appears to be to have innovation under […]

With the adoption of the revised payments directive (PSD2), the European Parliament mandated a revolution in the European payment industry. Under the new regulation, the playing field is finally level for startups in the fintech space to play a more important role. Often though, we hear the same question: what does really change? What you […]

SHAKYKH MUHAMMAD Umar bin Ramadhan, chairman of the Ramadhan Foundation and Mohammed Shafiq, chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation have given their view on the passing of Muhammad Ali. A joint statement read: “It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Muhammad Ali and we pray to the Almighty Allah […]

An Arizona mother is suspected of stabbing her three sons to death, hiding their bodies in a closet and then trying to kill herself in Phoenix on Thursday morning, police said. The woman’s brother called police after finding her wounded in a bathroom, authorities said. Phoenix police said they walked into a horrific scene: The […]

AFRICANGLOBE – The bodies of at least 85 people who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea were found washed up on beaches near the Libyan city of Zuwarah, a Red Crescent official has said. Al-Khamis al-Bosaifi said on Thursday that most of the victims appeared to be African, though their bodies were decomposed and […]

An Ohio man was awarded $22 million after being beaten and locked in a storage closet by two East Cleveland police officers for four days. Arnold Black was arrested in 2012 for allegedly transporting cocaine in his pick-up truck while traveling through East Cleveland. One of the two arresting officers severely beat Black and took him […]

Kenyana author Binyavanga Wainaina was viciously assaulted by a racist taxi driver in Berlin, Germany, as a crowd watched in glee. Mr Wainaina, who is recovering from a stroke that had affected his speech, was in Berlin on a Daad Fellowship, one of the most prestigious in the world. The attack came a few moments […]

A dagger buried with King Tutankhamun was made from extraterrestrial iron from a meterorite, according to a new analysis. Two daggers — one iron and one with a blade of gold — were discovered in 1925 within the wrapping of the boy king, who was mummified more than 3,300 years ago and has mesmerised modern […]

There has been an outcry on social media after a broadcast journalist alleged that a story was canned because she was filmed wearing a headscarf. Nontobeko Sibisi, who is an arts and entertainment reporter for eNCA, directed damning accusations towards its management after she wore a headscarf, or doek, in the video on Africa Day. […]

SHAKYKH MUHAMMAD Umar bin Ramadhan, chairman of the Ramadhan Foundation and Mohammed Shafiq, chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation have given their view on the passing of Muhammad Ali. A joint statement read: “It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Muhammad Ali and we pray to the Almighty Allah […]

Mathew Henson belongs to that hardly race adventurers which from man’s earliest history paved the way for civilization by doing to the knowledge that was hitherto unattainable. Henson’s feat in reaching the North pole holds a high place in the saga of the adventurers. He played the leading part in accomplishing what some of the […]