Category: Online identity checks
Remote identity checks – a new normal for HR teams
Tony Machin
September 3, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we all saw an overnight switch from face-to-face to online. For some organisations, this presented a huge challenge around recruitment and compliance checks and left them facing a seismic shift in their processes. Verifying identity remotely became a new and unique challenge for many recruiters.
Remote Right to Study checks – could ‘remote checks’ be the new normal?
Tony Machin
August 6, 2020
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we all saw an overnight switch from face-to-face to online. For the 2020 intake, verifying identity remotely became a new and unique challenge for many colleges and universities who quickly needed to find a way to confirm that the students they are enrolling are actually who they claim to be.
Remote identity checks: on-boarding your remote customers and staff more effectively.
David Park
June 30, 2020
Over the past few years at TrustID, we have seen a huge increase in the number of organisations turning to online identity verification services as a quick, reliable and scalable way to support remote identity checks. We’re pleased to now introduce new functionality, known as Guest Links, to further support this remote checking process.
Facial recognition software and passive liveness in identity verification
David Park
June 3, 2020
From May 2020, the TrustID Cloud service includes a facial recognition and liveness test option. But how can facial recognition support identity validation? We’ve created this overview of the service to help you find out more about what it means and how it could help your organisation with on-boarding.
Online Right to Work checks with TrustID
David Park
April 9, 2020
We are pleased to announce that we’ve incorporated the Home Office online Right to Work checking service into the TrustID validation services. This offers a unique ‘all in one’ solution for checking all employees, regardless of whether they present an identity document or a share code to prove their Right to Work.
Making remote identity checks in today’s world
Tony Machin
March 23, 2020
We’re all being advised to work from home where possible. This clearly makes receiving and checking physical documents in the presence of applicants a bit of challenge and lots of our customers are asking about checking identity documents remotely. Find out more about the changes in this blog.
Smarter identity checks to satisfy ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) requirements
Tony Machin
March 12, 2018
As you probably know, anti-money laundering (AML) regulations state that your first step should be to perform an appropriate level of identity check to satisfy ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) requirements. This most often starts by the person being asked to produce some form of official documentation to prove their identity.
