NICE Actimize has announced that Green Dot has selected a number of NICE Actimize's risk management solutions, including Card Fraud, AML Suspicious Activity Monitoring, Know Your Customer (KYC) Due Diligence and Enterprise Risk Case Manager.

Verid has announced that CashEdge will integrate Verid's Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) technology into CashEdge's online account opening and funding solutions to enhance the depth and quality of its risk management capabilities using Verid's industry-leading KBA process, already in use at eight of the top ten financial institutions.

Fortent, a company created specifically to deliver a comprehensive suite of risk and compliance solutions to financial institutions worldwide, was launched today. Fortent combines Searchspace, a leading anti-money laundering solution, and Semagix, a pioneering Know Your Customer and Enhanced Due Diligence product, into a single brand.

A great friend of Glenbrook's is Broox Peterson, formerly Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Visa for over 20 years. Broox retired from Visa a couple of years ago and since then has been doing free lance legal work with information technology and payments companies.

Broox has written (and recently updated) a great article about some of the implications that entrepreneurs may want to consider regarding the regulatory implications of building a new payments company - something that, in our experience, entrepreneurs may not fully understand or appreciate.