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Oct 20, 2020
Introducing the New College Lanarkshire student digital ID card
We’re helping New College Lanarkshire make life easier for their students with digital ID cards on their phone. The contactless, digital student ID cards are remotely issued via the Yoti app and can be digitally updated in real time. All students need to do is set up a Yoti account, add their photo, student email address and as if by magic, their card will appear on their home screen. No printing plastic, no queuing for photos – just your student ID card delivered straight to your phone. New College Lanarkshire New College Lanarkshire
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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