Nigel Smart is a professor in the COSIC group at the KU Leuven. He is known as the expert in the domain Cryptography and has acted as security expert advisor towards the UK financial services industry. He has held two ERC Advanced grants. He was Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2014-2016) and is a Fellow of the IACR. He is co-founder of Unbound Tech and the Real World Cryptography conference series. During this debate with the CTO of nextAuth, he will give his vision on how the financial services industry should evolve in the domain of authentication, taking into account trends like quantum computing and going passwordless.
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