Tag: identity
Identity checks for DBS – Digital identity validation vs face-to-face identity checks
Tony Machin
March 12, 2024
As a certified IDSP, we’re asked lots of questions by employers about what the choice between Digital / remote and face-to-face identity checks really means within the DBS application process. In this blog, we explore 3 of the key differences between the 2 validation methods.
Fraudulent Identity Documents and Modern Slavery
Sarah Croft
February 27, 2024
Modern Slavery is a subject that we are hearing more and more about in the UK. In this guest blog, Tony Dunkerley, a former Police Detective and Force Practitioner on Modern Slavery explores this growing problem and the links with fraudulent identity documents.
TrustID digital identity services approved by UK Government
Tony Machin
June 15, 2022
TrustID is a certified digital identity service provider (IDSP) for Right to Work (RtW), Right to Rent (RtR) and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks under the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.
Validating identity documents is step one in a secure process
Guest Writer
May 20, 2019
There are many reasons that businesses today need to confirm the identity of the people they employ or work with. This guest blog is from Darren Harding who is the on-boarding manager at our customer Boomerang Funding. They check ID documents as part of a Right to Work check and to ensure that only legitimate applicants are given access to rail infrastructure projects.
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.
