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Oct 20, 2020
Our CEO Robin Tombs is a Meaningful Business 100 Leader for 2020
We’re honoured to see our CEO Robin Tombs be recognised as a Meaningful Business 100 Leader for 2020. This award recognises outstanding business leaders across the world who are combining profit and purpose to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of the SDGs is to ‘provide legal identity to all’. Since Yoti was founded in 2014, we’ve been fully committed to the concept of digital identity for all. Our commercial activities are centred around online tools and apps that allow people to prove who they are, whilst our social purpose activities support the building of
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Oct 19, 2020
ID checks in your website or app
We combine world-leading technology with expert human recognisers to ensure only genuine customers can get through your identity checks. For your customers, it’s as simple as taking a photo of their government-approved ID document and a photo of themselves. Customers can also add proof of address in the same session. Solution: Identity Verification
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Oct 19, 2020
White paper: Social purpose in a time of crisis
Is the true measure of a company how it responds in a crisis, or what it does the rest of the time? With a global pandemic raging, and one of the largest global movements for racial equality taking hold, now might be a better time than any to find out. This paper looks at the emergence of social purpose in the corporate world and how companies have responded to Covid and the death of George Floyd – two of the most significant events of recent times. Contents: Corporate social responsibility. Defining mission and vision statements. Corporate responses to BLM.
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Oct 19, 2020
Project Endeavour: eKYC and customer acquisition platform
Project Endeavour is our partnership pilot which combines our best-in-class digital identity technology with anti-fraud and AML risk screening data services from Synectics Solutions. Our shared tool is designed to enable customers to onboard instantly with a financial institution using their phone. Low risk customers, who make up roughly 90% of a customer portfolio of a Tier 1 UK bank, will be identified and granted instant access to products and services via a third-party marketplace.
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Oct 15, 2020
Developing our anonymous age estimation technology
Having spent the last six years building a digital identity platform, we’ve made some impressive advancements in the age checking space. Our free app is a powerful tool that lets anyone convert their government-issued ID document into an encrypted, digital ID. Once verified, users can share age details, such as ‘Over 18’ or ‘Under 18’, without revealing their entire date of birth. Age checks without an ID document After delivering age verification in this way for a few years, it struck us that in the UK 33% of under 18s and 24% of over 18s do
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Oct 04, 2020
Virgin Atlantic trials pre-flight Covid-19 testing for crew using FRANKD with Yoti
We’re excited to share the news that Virgin Atlantic is the first UK airline to introduce Covid-19 pre-flight testing for its cabin crew and pilots. Britain’s Global Five Star Airline has begun trialing our FRANKD with Yoti Covid-19 testing solution on flights to Shanghai and Hong Kong, with the introduction of Barbados and additional flights planned later in the month. The aim is a wider roll out to test every operating crew at least once per month. Rapid testing using FRANKD with Yoti This move follows Heathrow Airport trials in August using FRANKD, which is a