Who am I? Identity management and strong customer authentication

byDr. Susanne Grohé
20. November 2018
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Identity management and strong customer authentication are the talk of the day. However, the terminology is more than confusing.

For example, customers need to be identified for the purposes of AML, they need to authorize a payment, and when authenticating themselves, it is checked whether they are actually the person they pretend to be.

I have created a cheat sheet (infographic) for you in order to shed some light on the topics “identify, authorise, authenticate“.

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AML

Dr. Susanne Grohé

Susanne started her legal career at Linklaters. Most recently, she headed the legal department of PayPal for the DACH region. Before that, she worked at eBay mainly on payment related topics. Her focus are regulatory issues and product advice in the payment and ecommerce industry. Susanne dealt with completely different legal topics as head of legal director for the Bundesdruckerei (federal printing office).

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