What is an identity verification service?

An identity verification service is used by businesses to ensure that users or customers provide information that is associated with the identity of a real person. The service may verify the authenticity of physical identity documents such as a drivers license, passport, or a nationally issued identity document through documentary verification.

What is document verification?

Document verification is a digital identity verification method used to check whether an applicant’s ID document (e.g. passport, ID card, driver’s license, etc.) is legitimate. The goal is to capture, extract, and analyze ID data in order to authenticate government-issued identity documents.

How does automated ID verification work?

The goal is to capture, extract, and analyze ID data in order to authenticate government-issued identity documents. This helps discern between what is real and what is fraudulent. Using automated ID document verification, identity documents can be authenticated in real-time and within seconds.

What is a non-documentary Identity verification?

The Financial Actions Task Force (FATF) is a global anti-money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog organization. A non-documentary identity verification requires the user or customer to provide personal identity data which is sent to the identity verification service.