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TED@BCG Berlin

October 2014

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A vision for truly secure and seamless transactions

Our feverish appreciation of the virtual economy is tempered only by our concerns about privacy. If it's so easy to spend money online ... how hard could it be to breach security? Carey Kolaja, the head of PayPal, describes the future of money and fraud protection -- going beyond passwords and PINs to consider personal behavior, physical markers and even everyday relationships.

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This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with BCG.

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Our feverish appreciation of the virtual economy is tempered only by our concerns about privacy. If it's so easy to spend money online ... how hard could it be to breach security? Carey Kolaja, the head of PayPal, describes the future of money and fraud protection -- going beyond passwords and PINs to consider personal behavior, physical markers and even everyday relationships.

This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with BCG.

Read more about the TED Institute.

About the speaker

Carey Kolaja

Transactions architect

Carey Kolaja is Vice President of Global Product Solutions at PayPal. She has more than 20 years of diverse experience in financial services and technology consulting at companies such as UBS Warburg, Waterstone Consulting, Windomar Financial and divine interVentures. She earned a BS from the University of Indiana and is a graduate from the Executive Program at Stanford University.

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