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It is time to modernize SIN use for credit verification.
Fraud Starts with Identity. So Should the Fix. It is time to modernize SIN use for credit verification. Abstract: Canada’s credit system is increasingly exposed to identity-based fraud because it was built to assess borrower behaviour, not to verify identity at the point of entry. The article argues that synthetic identities are being used to […]
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