[Dave Birch] The second roundtable in the Visa Europe CSFI Fellowship series on "Identity and Financial Services" will be held at the Innholder's Hall, 30 College Street, London EC4R 2RH, from 12.30pm-2.15pm on 13th January 2010. Jon Shamah from BankID, Frank Leyman from the Belgian government e-ID scheme and David Rennie from the Cabinet Office will be on the panel and we will be trying to understand what the "identity problem" is: Download invitation (146.5K).
There is no European standard for how identity and authentication might be arranged between the government, the financial services sector and others. In some countries, the government provides this infrastructure. In Germany, for example, customers are given free USB smart card interfaces so that they can use their new national ID card to log on to their bank account. In contrast, Scandinavian customers use the ID provided by their bank to log in to government services. In many countries, customers use dongles, tokens and other devices, but they need different tokens for different accounts and can’t use these tokens to log in to other businesses.
We won’t concentrate on the technology, but on the organizational structures and institutions. There is an opportunity for the financial sector to turn identity from a cost (and a hassle) into a revenue stream by solving problems for other private and public sector providers. But does this make sense? Or would the best approach be to create a single government electronic identity that is used not only by the financial sector, but by others as well?
It makes sense to compare and contrast some different approaches and learn from existing schemes so and this discussion will do just that. The panel for this second roundtable will be:
- Jon Shamah from Nets, which was formed from the merger of BBS and PBS and is the leading Scandinavian PKI provider.
- Frank Leyman is Manger, International Relations, at Fedict which runs the Belgian government's eID card scheme.
- David Rennie from the Cabinet Office is helping to develop the UK's new strategy in identity.
Attendance is free, but space is limited. So if you or a colleague would like to join us, please let us know as soon as possible by e-mailing sophie (at) csfi.org.uk or by phoning the CSFI on +44 (20) 7493 0173 as soon as possible.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name;
Robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare, Othello (Act 3, Scene 3).
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