CSFI Identity and Financial Services

Sixth roundtable in the series on Identity and Financial Services

The sixth 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 27th September 2011. Download invitation (113.4K).

We're going to move the fellowship on by shifting from analysing the problems and issues to discussing potential solutions. I don't mean technical solutions -- we have lots to choose from and we know that they work --but more wide-ranging business and social solutions that will provide a practical means to improve the situation for stakeholders. Now, one set of potential solutions are centred on the mobile phone and more than once in the preceding workshops the idea of banks working with mobile operators has been put forward. Should banks and/or mobile operators provide the identity infrastructure? It's a great topic for a roundtable because it's a live topic: business plans are being formulated as we speak so we're lucky to get three of the best to join you for informed discussion on the topic. They are:

Tony Fish is an entrepreneur with extensive experience at the intersection of finance and telecommunications and the man behind "My Digital Footprint".

Tom Gregory is the Head of Digital Payments at Barclaycard and lives day-to-day at the intersection of electronic money and electronic identity.

Dean Bubley is a respected analyst who understand the mobile operators world and writes one of the best telecommunications blogs in the business, Disruptive Wireless.

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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Fifth roundtable in the series on Identity and Financial Services

The fifth roundtable in the Visa Europe CSFI Fellowship series on "Identity and Financial Services" will be held at the Watermen's Hall, 16-18 St. Mary-at-Hill, London EC3R 8EF, from 12.30pm-2.15pm on 10th May 2011. Download Invitation (115.1K).

Having spent some time trying to understand what the problems around identity are, it’s time to start thinking about solutions. Before we rush into technology, though, it might be wise to pause and make sure that the financial sector is building on sound foundations. It’s time to raise the dread question: what is identity anyway? Not from an esoteric perspective, but from a practical perspective looking at finance.

I’m afraid we’re going to have to get to the bottom of this if we are going to come up with sensible suggestions for financial services organisations to develop some kind of infrastructure that will not only help with the problems already identified but provide a platform for future services. Personally, I think “common sense” notions of identity are very misleading, and I suspect that the legal framework may be outdated, but what do I know? Fortunately we have an expert panel of people who do know to help focus the discussion, which I expect to be wide-ranging:

Dr. Ian Brown is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and has variously been a trustee of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Marc Dautlich is a Partner in the Technology Group and Head of Data Protection at Olswang. His work involves complex infrastructure projects in both the public and private sector, encompassing IT and business process outsourcing, data protection and privacy.

Simon Deane-Johns is a consulting solicitor with Keystone Law and has extensive experience in the online world. He was a co-founder of Zopa and has recently been working with Amazon.

Attendance is free, but space is limited. So if you or a colleague would like to attend, please let us know by e-mailing [email protected] or by phoning the CSFI on +44 (20) 7493 0173 as soon as possible.

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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