Identity Management

The transformation of banking services is setting a new trajectory for a hyper relevant target – personalised wealth management. Two ground-breaking pieces of legislation, PSD2 and GDPR, are causing a shift in the mental model for all who engage in designing the methods of high value, trusted digital engagement in Financial Services.

For retailers and etailers, the travails plaguing Facebook in recent months after the Cambridge Analytica revelations should be yet another bellwether of consumer concern about the sanctity of personal data. Or perhaps canary in a coal mine is a more apt metaphor?

Tom Bucklar, Director of IoT at Caterpillar, is using IoT-enabled solutions to create more value for his customers. While an industrial organization, Caterpillar looks to partner with a variety of industries to gain more consumer insights and solve their customers’ challenges. In this interview, Tom tells Hot Topics about the biggest opportunities of today enabled by connected technologies.

One of the happier developments at last month's IdentityLive Austin Summit was that we were able to involve the Center for Identity from the University of Texas at Austin into a couple of our sessions in the person of Ryan Anderson, Director of Strategic Partners and Outreach.

At CES this year, there were no less than five separate announcements of how Alexa was being integrated into automobiles. This was another step in Amazon’s strategy of putting Alexa, as VentureBeat explained, “everywhere: ubiquitous, omnipresent, and all-knowing, like some AI god.”