April 29, 2019 @ 2:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the first cross border tests of the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) – a grouping of global regulators seeking to collaborate on Fintech innovation. The FCA states they received 44 applications for the pilot. After this initial… Read More

April 3, 2019 @ 9:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Onfido, a global identity verification provider, announced on Wednesday it has secured $50 million through its latest investment round, bringing the total investment in the company to over $100 million. According to Onfido, the round was led by SBI Investment and Salesforce Ventures, with support… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Onfido, a U.S. based identity verification platform, announced on Tuesday it has been appointed to the FIDO Alliance Board of Directors. As previously reported, Onfideo reportedly uses machine learning to help more than 1,500 companies to verify their users’ identity online. The company noted it… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 1:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Onfido, a U.S. based identity verification platform, announced on Wednesday it has formed a new partnership with BitPay to accept secured payments in Bitcoin. Onfidio reported that BitPay is also using its technology to meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements and onboard new users to its platform… Read More

August 13, 2018 @ 10:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Identity verification provider Onfido has formed a partnership with global remittance company TransferGo to help verify the identities of TransferGo’s users.  TransferGo currently offers transfers between nearly 50 countries and recently claimed to be the first remittance company to offer a cryptocurrency trading facility with… Read More

July 12, 2018 @ 6:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Who are you? LendInvest, a UK marketplace platform for mortgages, and Onfido, an identity verification provider, have partnered to streamline LendInvest’s digital application process for its Buy-to-Let (BTL) product to determine identity. In November 2017, LendInvest launched its first BTL product with a digital application process; the… Read More

July 11, 2018 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

HBUS, a cryptocurrency marketplace that has partnered with Huobi, has chosen IdentityMind Global, to provide anti-money laundering (AML) compliance for digital currency trading platform. HBUS only launched this week providing crypto trading to US residents (minus a few states). HBUS said it is dedicated to… Read More

February 6, 2017 @ 4:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK’s Department for International Trade announced last week it would bring a trade delegation of eleven of the country’s fintech companies to Australia and New Zealand in March 2017. The eleven companies selected were Aire, Clarus FT, Clearmacro, FundApps, ingage, iwoca, neyber, ObjectTech, Onfido, Sybenetix, and Tradle…. Read More

January 18, 2017 @ 2:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Onfido, a global identity verification company, announced this week it is helping to bring financial services to the 2 billion unbanked individuals worldwide with its Machine Learning-based solution. The company stated it plans to use its proprietary technology to verify people’s identification by comparing an identity document… Read More