Tagged: identity

December 12, 2019 @ 8:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Onfido, a global identity verification provider, announced on Thursday it has extended its partnership with European challenger bank bunq to offer users with a trusted identity verification onboarding experience. The duo further explained: “Onfido’s identity verification solution enables secure and simple onboarding for bunq users…. Read More

December 9, 2019 @ 1:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Trulioo, an on-demand global identity verification company, announced on Monday it has expanded its identity verification coverage services to Nigeria and Ghana through GlobalGateway, its marketplace of identity data and services.  According to Trulioo, GlobalGateway’s coverage in Nigeria and Ghana will help financial institutions accurately… Read More

October 18, 2019 @ 9:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

IdentityMind Global, a SaaS RegTech platform that builds, maintains and analyzes digital identities worldwide, announced on Thursday it has formed a new partnership with Acuant, a global provider of identity verification solutions, to strengthen digital identity proofing.  IdentityMind reported that through the partnership Acuant’s identity… Read More

July 23, 2019 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Civic Technologies, the premier blockchain-powered identity and payment solution provider, announced on Tuesday it has collaborated with BitGo to launch the Civic Wallet, the first consumer digital wallet built on top of BitGo’s multisig technology, which will be released in the fourth quarter. According to Civic,… Read More

May 18, 2019 @ 4:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

During the ICO (initial coin offering) heyday of 2016 and 2017, no less than 28 “identity protection projects” raised money from investors through ICOs hosted on Ethereum. Token sellers promised to build systems that would allow individuals to control access to identifying information cached about… Read More

May 4, 2019 @ 2:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

It appears that Canada’s financial services sector is making progress on incorporating blockchain tech for identity verification. SecureKey Technologies is out with a note saying their digital identity network, Verified.Me, is now available for use at TD, Scotiabank, RBC, Desjardins, and CIBC. SecureKey says that… Read More

January 29, 2018 @ 7:50 am By JD Alois  |  

R3, a bespoke distributed ledger technology (DLT) provider that is working with over 100 financial institutions,  has formed a partnership with Evernym to apply self-sovereign identity to financial services. R3 seeks to create a standardized financial service focused DLT. R3 was the genesis of frustration amongst banks… Read More

December 11, 2017 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

SelfKey, a “self sovereign identity” firm, has just completed a pre-sale of KEY tokens raising $5 million. Now SelfKey is preparing to launch its public Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on December 15th. The token sale has a hard cap of US$21.78 million. The SelfKey white… Read More