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TrustID help support compliance for ADVANCE
Sarah Croft
April 10, 2019
Lots of businesses talk about compliance but at ADVANCE, a leading provider of employment, contractor and freelancer solutions, compliance is the core of everything they do, including during the on-boarding of over 40,000 contractors and freelancers.
Our view of fraudulent identity documents in 2018
Tony Machin
March 11, 2019
If you follow our blog, you’ll know that at TrustID, we’re really keen on gathering and analysing data around document checks, including trends across different industries and fraudulent document types. With another year of data captured, in this blog, we summarise our annual findings for 2018 and compare them with trends from 2017.
Why introduce electronic identity document checks if you don’t have to?
Matt Green-Armyatge
June 6, 2018
We work with two main types of business: those that have to introduce some form of identity validation technology – due to enforced compliance requirements – and those who choose to introduce it – perhaps because they are worried about making checks in the face of high staff turnover or fall into a ‘high-risk’ sector. you can benefit from electronic identity scanning, not just to drive compliance and find fraudulent documents, but in ways that you may not expect…
Helping recruitment businesses improve Right to Work compliance with identity checks.
Sarah Croft
April 25, 2018
We caught up with the team at Anderselite recently who have introduced TrustID Cloud to all their recruitment consultants to allow them to check identity documents from anywhere. Recruitment business, Anderselite, was established in 1984. They specialises in supplying staff to the construction, civil engineering, rail and IT sectors. Operating from six regional offices across the UK, they support 500 clients and deal with over a thousand contractors every week.
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.
Making identity checks according to likely risk
Matt Green-Armyatge
February 6, 2018
Our expert team here is often asked lots of questions about the details of false identity documents, around how they are manufactured and distributed and what happens when they spot one. So, in this blog, we’re going to talk about the quality of false documents that our client helpdesk encounters and how our ID checking systems can help according to the likely level of risk.
ID scanning system thwarts fraud attempt for Fluent Money
Sarah Croft
June 15, 2017
Fluent Money, the UK’s largest secured loan distributor, recently thwarted an attempt by a fraudster to obtain a loan using a fake driving licence thanks to electronic ID verification. In this blog, we talk to Tim Wheeldon, COO, and Stuart Almond, Group Compliance Director at Fluent Money about why they introduced ID scanning technology and how it works in their business.
Making Right to Work checks easier in Facilities Management
Tony Machin
February 2, 2017
As a Facilities Management Company, supplying cleaning, security or catering contracts, you know that you must make checks on your employees to ensure that they have the Right to Work in the UK. But if your team are spread across different sites, working for different customers, you’ll also know that making visual checks and filing copy documents can be a time-consuming challenge. But getting ID checks right is crucial!
How we protect our recruitment business from illegal workers
Guest Writer
August 11, 2016
With the number of fake passports seized at UK borders reaching a five-year high and high-profile stories of ‘illegal workers’ hitting the press, such as the tale of Byron Burgers, many companies may be concerned about their own screening and on-boarding process. In our guest blog, Abbie Pullman, Head of Talent Management at Off to Work, the UK’s leading event staffing solutions, consultancy, recruitment and training academy, shares her ‘Top 10 Tips’ for protecting a business from the risks of illegal workers.
Finding fake identity documents in the NHS
Tony Machin
January 25, 2016
We have had a couple of noteworthy document referrals here at TrustID from NHS Trusts. For me, they really showcase how effective identity document verification can be in different scenarios facing the NHS and I thought they would be interesting to share.
