EEMA Brief January 2017
Issue 2
EEMA News
The View from the EEMA Chair
Visit the EEMA website to read the latest post ‘The View from the EEMA Chair’ by Jon Shamah
in which he summarises 2016 and looks forward to an exciting 2017 for EEMA. As he says, in
many ways 2016 was a milestone year for the Association and its members. We launched the
European Trust Foundation in The Hague, and our new High-Level Fireside briefings proved
very popular in both Brussels and London. EEMA was also delighted to announce its
involvement in two EU-funded projects – LIGHTest and FutureTrust, as well as its ongoing
work with Cloud for Europe, all of which you will hear much more about in 2017. At our 17th
ISSE conference, which took place in Paris in November, we were delighted to introduce new
event supporters Darktrace and Cryptomathic. We also had the pleasure of signing a
Memorandum of Understanding with the Kantara Initiative, that will give members from both
organisation great opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge.
This year promises to be an even more exciting year for EEMA and plans are already afoot for
the 30th anniversary of our annual conference, which this year takes place in London, as well
as ISSE (watch this space for details coming soon!).
To read the full post visit www.eema.org.
EEMA Events
EEMA Fireside High Level Briefing: Just how many
passports do you need? Do you need a financial
passport too?
16 March: 6:00pm – 8:30pm, London, Hosted by ATOS
For portability of KYC (Know your Customer) the
greatest efficiency and privacy would be to have the data owned and managed by the
individual. Where does this leave traditional players like credit rating agencies? Is there an
ecosystem where credit rating agencies and user centric KYC can - co-exist? Join us for a
thought-provoking debate and discussion on this critical subject. The speakers are:
 Dave Birch: Dave is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic
transactions consultancy. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital
identity and digital money.
 Mark Pearce: Mark is a Strategic Business Development Director at Experian the
Global Information Service and responsible for the initiative that aims to position
Experian as the consumers’ ‘trusted data custodian’.
 Gene Vayngrib: Gene is CEO & Co-founder of Tradle, whose software products run at
90% of Fortune 500 companies. Gene is applying his extensive distributed networks
expertise to a new blockchain-based KYC utility.
There will be a buffet, wine and networking before and after the meeting. Register now to
avoid disappointment.
Further information
EEMA’s 30th Annual Conference, 4-5 July, London
Bookmark the date now and be sure to join us in July.
Member Events
The Future of Digital Identity, 31 January, Amsterdam
Next Tuesday is the second edition of the Future of Digital Identity event organised by
Euroforum in collaboration with IDnextplatform. This meeting will discuss current
developments in the field of online payments, onboarding of customers, and identification
and authentication of customers. The IDnext community is offered a discount of 25% for this
event.
Registration
Tomorrow's Transactions London Unconference 2017, 6 February, London
Come and join with global FinTech guru Dave Birch, Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion
and a Visiting Professor at the Surrey University Business School, in a day of discussions on the
future of digital transactions at the annual Tomorrow’s Transactions London Unconference
(#TTLU16). As is the tradition, the Unconference will mix stimulating talks from experts with
global perspectives with discussions on innovation in the world of FinTech and digital
commerce. It is organized on a participant-driven agenda leveraging the ‘unconference’
format where the discussion topics are decided by the delegates on the day. This year’s focus
will be a peek at the post-card payments world because at some point in the imaginable
future, mobile ‘tap and pay’ and ‘app and pay’ will overtake card payments or, as we prefer,
#cardmaggedon or the #cardocalypse, where plastic card products no longer dominate and
begin their slide into history. How will payments change in a world of voice commerce, Apple
Pay and cryptocurrencies? How will the business change? How will money itself change?
Further information
Industry News
Commission launches a public consultation for the review of ENISA.
Full release
Top 25 worst-of-the-worst most common passwords used in 2017.
Full release
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, positions himself as the voice of reason between Silicon
Valley and the White House.
Full release
Croatia welcomes new border kit.
Full release
EE's 4G-based emergency services network (ESN) runs behind schedule.
Full release
Enforcement of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to
start in about 18 months.
Full release
BT issues a profit warning following an accounting scandal.
Full release
The latest database attacks: Tips of the icebergs.
Full release
Vodafone's first commercial NB-IoT network goes live in Spain.
Full release
China patches a hole in its online censorship apparatus.
Full release
Samsung blames faulty batteries for flaming Note 7s.
Full release
Australia wants to replace passports with biometrics by 2020
Full release
Yahoo confirms delay to Verizon deal closure.
Full release
Trump breaks live streaming records.
Full release
How fortified is your SAP against security breaches?
Full release
Apple sues Qualcomm in China.
Full release
EU rights agency warns about fingerprinting migrant children
Full release
Dates to bookmark
10th Annual Border Security Conference, 15 – 16 February, Rome
Further information
ERF 2017 – Smart Robots for the Real World, 22 – 24 March, Edinburgh
Further information