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Jun 25, 2020
JNCTN and Yoti’s strategic partnership to provide a single verified digital identity and credential management solution
25th June 2020, LONDON — New Zealand’s game changing credential management platform JNCTN and digital identity company Yoti are excited to officially announce their partnership today. This new partnership will bring consumers a verified credential and digital identity solution for the global market. Wayne Stemp, Founder of JNCTN says “Working together will allow both of us to provide integrated identity and credential management solutions for international clients. We believe this will be one of the fastest growing market sectors and we see the partnership as eliminating the risks associated with increased fake identities, allowing businesses to be able to instantly
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Jun 19, 2020
Yoti wins the Business Transformation award in the 2020 DigitalAgenda Impact Awards
We’re delighted to win the Business Transformation Award in the Digital Agenda Impact Awards for being “a genuinely transformative innovation that could affect all of our lives for the better” (their words not ours). There were hundreds of entries for this year’s prestigious awards, which celebrate technological innovations that improve people’s lives and the world around us. Now in their fourth year, the awards are open to any UK-operating business, individual, government or non-profit using digital products or services for positive social impact. Sponsored by HSBC, the Business Transformation award champions companies and projects that help business, government and nonprofits
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Jun 10, 2020
Educating young people about their digital identity with MyMahi
Since day one at Yoti, we have been strong advocates for protecting young people online and helping them understand their digital identity. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new partnership with MyMahi, an online platform that helps young New Zealanders understand the relevance of what they’re learning at school and help them plan ideas for their next steps. The portal is an incredible tool for young people that not only helps them manage their academic learning with timetables, results and daily notifications, but it allows them to discover their true potential by setting goals, self-reflecting and working on their
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May 29, 2020
German regulator FSM approves Yoti digital identities and age estimation for for online child protection in Germany
LONDON, 29/05/20 – In a world-first, age estimation and age verification from Yoti have been approved for age-restricted access and protection of young people in Germany. The German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media Service Providers (FSM) evaluated Yoti’s facial age estimation technology (Yoti Age Scan) and the Yoti app for age verification and certified that both comply with the legal provisions of online child protection in Germany. Yoti Age Scan is an accurate age estimation technology that enables people that do not have an identity document to prove their age easily and securely. An individual uses the camera
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May 26, 2020
We've partnered with OneFamily to help UK teenagers take ownership of their Child Trust Funds with the Yoti app
Yoti has partnered with OneFamily to make life easier for its 1.6 million child trust fund account holders who can now take control of their accounts with our digital identity app. OneFamily OneFamily holds around a quarter of the UK’s child trust funds (CTFs), which are tax-free savings accounts that were awarded to every child born between 1 September 2002 and 1 January 2011. On Tuesday 1 September 2020, the first recipients will be eligible to access their funds. It’s anticipated that the OneFamily accounts will mature at the rate of around 20,000 per month from September for the
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May 25, 2020
No fuss teen-friendly tech for child trust fund holders
London, UK – 25th May 2020: Friendly society OneFamily is to use teen-friendly tech to make life easier for its 1.6 million child trust fund account holders, as their accounts mature from September this year. OneFamily holds around a quarter of the UK’s child trust funds. It will be working with digital identity platform Yoti to manage the secure identification of its young customers as they begin to take control of their accounts. Child trust funds were awarded to every child born between 1 September 2002 and 1 January 2011. On Tuesday 1 September 2020, the first recipients will be