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OneFamily has announced that Child Trust Fund beneficiaries will be able to use the Yoti app to prove their identity when claiming their accounts. The trust funds in question were introduced as part of a 2005 UK initiative to encourage families to save money for their children, which created a trust fund for every child […]
An independent auditor has evaluated Yoti’s identity technology and determined that it satisfies HIPAA’s security and privacy requirements. The assessment should clear the way for healthcare organizations that are looking to streamline their operations with digital identities. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was initially passed in 1996, and establishes strict guidelines for […]
The Polish biotech company GeneMe has developed a faster and more affordable COVID-19 test that should enable testing on a massive scale. The test itself has been dubbed FRANKD, and it uses a mouth swab to generate results in 13-25 minutes at a price point of £10 per test. According to GeneMe, FRANKD has been […]
Yoti will be providing biometric onboarding services for Co-op’s community support program. The cooperative organization is one of the UK’s biggest food retailers with more than 2,500 locations across the country, and also offers insurance, legal advice, and other services to its customers. The partnership with Yoti specifically concerns Co-op’s community co-operate platform, which consolidates […]
Subhashish Panigrahi has published a field diary that details the impact of COVID-19 on India’s Aadhaar program. Panigrahi is one of Yoti’s three Digital Identity Fellows, and is currently examining the effects of Aadhaar on India’s marginalized population. In that regard, he argues that COVID-19 has exacerbated issues that were present before the pandemic. Aadhaar […]
Yoti has launched a new eKYC pilot in collaboration with Synectics Solutions. The new project has been dubbed Endeavour, and it will blend Yoti’s digital identity technology with Synectics’ data-based anti-fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) screening services. Endeavour is geared primarily towards financial institutions, who will benefit from the platform’s identity verification and risk assessment […]
Yoti has announced that it will be offering its digital identity verification services for free to any public health organizations, emergency services and community initiatives that are helping in the fight against COVID-19. Yoti’s digital identity app, which leverages facial recognition and document reading for user authentication, has always been offered for free to eligible […]
Yoti has added three new startups to its Humanitarian Tech Support Programme. The Programme was first announced earlier this year, and was set up to help socially-oriented tech companies develop solutions that will fulfill the needs of specific communities. The new members of the program are People in Need, Bitprop, and Humanity Data Systems. The […]
The Gamesys Group will be integrating Yoti’s Doc Scan solution into its various online bingo and online casino operations. Doc Scan uses face and document recognition to verify people’s identities after matching a selfie to the image on an official government ID. The Doc Scan solution is compatible with more than 1,000 different documents from […]
Industry professionals who participated in FindBiometrics’ Year in Review survey remain interested in using biometrics for age verification when buying restricted goods like alcohol or cannabis. This year, the number of respondents who said they would use biometric age verification in these cases totaled 81 percent, with roughly half of those respondents – 43 percent […]
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