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Aug 20, 2021
Launching Post Office EasyID: a smarter way to prove who you are in store and online
We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Post Office EasyID app. As the name suggests, it’s your ID made easy and puts your valuable personal data on your phone and under your control. It’s free, smarter than your regular ID and lets you conveniently prove your identity in person and online, with just a tap or scan of a QR code. Following in the footsteps of digital money, we believe it’s time for Digital ID to shine and become your next phone essential. Particularly in the era where services continue to migrate online
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Aug 19, 2021
Age verification: the solution to buying age-restricted products in supermarkets
Supermarkets as we know them today are vastly different from the ones we were used to twenty years ago. Doing the weekly shop is quicker and easier thanks to supermarkets implementing technological solutions like scan-as-you-shop and self-checkout terminals. Shoppers are becoming increasingly independent, but how can supermarkets assure that their customers are old enough to buy age-restricted products with minimal staff intervention and manual ID checks? Across the UK, supermarkets are looking to adopt new ways to check that their customers are old enough to buy age-restricted products. By embedding our leading age verification technology into
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Aug 04, 2021
Identity-driven eSignatures [product sheet]
Know exactly who’s signing your documents with legally-binding electronic signatures linked to a verified digital ID. Simply upload your documents, place the signature boxes and request recipients sign with the Yoti app. They’ll receive an email with the documents and a QR code to scan with their Yoti Digital ID. They consent to sharing their verified identity details in their app and you can achieve eSignatures and KYC in one simple swoop. Download your product sheet
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Aug 02, 2021
AML Watchlist Screening [product sheet]
Let automation do the heavy lifting in your AML practices with our configurable identity verification solution. You can tailor the checks to suit your risk profile, with optional document authenticity checks and manual review by our verification specialists for enhanced security. Screen extracted customer data against thousands of AML databases in real-time and receive alerts to changes in the risk status of your cusomters with ongoing monitoring. Core steps for robust AML checks: Identity Verification AML Watchlist Screening Download your product sheet
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Jul 27, 2021
Digital hiring vs in-person hiring: a post-pandemic conundrum
Lord Holmes, life peer in the House of Lords and dedicated advocate for the power of technology, talks about the change in right to work checks as set out by the Home Office. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, digital hiring became more widely adopted following the temporary decision to allow digital right-to-work checks. The Home Office has since decided to revert back to in-person hiring, despite an overall sentiment from businesses that Digital ID checks are more secure and efficient. *** Building back better with digital hiring On the Home Office’s step by
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Jul 26, 2021
Romance fraud: how to tell if you're being scammed with Yoti peer-to-peer checks
In 2020, there were over 270 million online dating users and 2.89 billion users of social media. People have been seeking virtual social and romantic relationships more than ever before, with dating sites seeing huge increases in platform usage following the enforcement of national lockdowns. But if you have ever made one of these accounts, you’ll know just how easy it is to make a profile using a false identity. This practice has given rise to a phenomenon called romance fraud, which UK Finance reported to have cost its victims a total of £18.5 million. There