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Nov 03, 2020
Online gaming innovators MrQ speeds up KYC with digital verification technology from Yoti
3rd November 2020, LONDON — Online gaming operator MrQ.com is enhancing the customer experience while tackling identity fraud using Yoti’s advanced identity verification technology for KYC. Yoti’s integrated solution brings a simple, private and secure identity verification flow to MrQ.com’s games on the web, mobile, and tablet. MrQ.com built its platform from the ground up to deliver a fluid customer-led experience, which eliminated all wagering requirements and led with a product-first strategy delivered through modern technology and a pulse across all data points. Yoti is now embedded into the MrQ.com platform to deliver know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks.
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Oct 31, 2020
Teens put our age estimation technology to the test
Our anonymous age estimation technology allows anybody to have their age checked by simply looking into the camera on a device. This privacy-friendly approach to age verification doesn’t require any personal details or documents, and all information is instantly deleted once someone receives their estimated age – nothing is ever viewed by a human. We challenged teens, or should we say they challenged us. And the results were brilliant. Product: Facial Age Estimation Read the white paper
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Oct 30, 2020
'FRANKD with Yoti' selected for CivTech 5.0 Accelerator Programme
We’re really excited to announce that our COVID-19 testing system ‘FRANKD with Yoti’ has been selected to enter a 12-week accelerator programme run by the Scottish Government, CivTech 5.0. CivTech is a worldwide network of public, private and third sector organisations working across the Civic and GovTech space to solve real-life problems and make people’s lives better. This is the fifth edition of the CivTech accelerator programme, which this year focuses on helping Scotland rebuild and recover from the coronavirus crisis. We’ve been selected to tackle Challenge 9; ‘How can innovation help NHS Scotland support employers to
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Oct 23, 2020
Automated age checks for StrongPoint
We’ve teamed up with StrongPoint to deliver automated age checks in their self-checkouts, Click & Collect lockers and Vensafe dispensing machines. Customers can simply look into the camera on the device and have their age anonymously estimated in seconds. If they look under the configured age threshold, they can prove their age with the Yoti app. Products: Facial Age Estimation, Digital ID Read more about transforming your shopping experience
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Oct 20, 2020
Introducing the New College Lanarkshire student digital ID card
We’re helping New College Lanarkshire make life easier for their students with digital ID cards on their phone. The contactless, digital student ID cards are remotely issued via the Yoti app and can be digitally updated in real time. All students need to do is set up a Yoti account, add their photo, student email address and as if by magic, their card will appear on their home screen. No printing plastic, no queuing for photos – just your student ID card delivered straight to your phone. New College Lanarkshire New College Lanarkshire
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Oct 20, 2020
Our CEO Robin Tombs is a Meaningful Business 100 Leader for 2020
We’re honoured to see our CEO Robin Tombs be recognised as a Meaningful Business 100 Leader for 2020. This award recognises outstanding business leaders across the world who are combining profit and purpose to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of the SDGs is to ‘provide legal identity to all’. Since Yoti was founded in 2014, we’ve been fully committed to the concept of digital identity for all. Our commercial activities are centred around online tools and apps that allow people to prove who they are, whilst our social purpose activities support the building of
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Say hello to our 2024 B Corp Impact Report
We’re delighted to reach our ninth year of being a B Corp. When Yoti was founded 10 years ago, we knew that we wanted to do business the right way. Because that’s the only way we can truly make the digital world safer for everyone. Our founders knew that in this industry, we were going to come up against some complex ethical questions. Working with identity, personal data and biometrics is a delicate matter. And that’s one of the reasons we became a B Corp – to hold us accountable to all our stakeholders including our people, clients, suppliers, the
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Feb 22, 2024
Addressing social challenges: How eSignatures can help solve everyday problems
Our purpose is at the core of everything we do. Our principles are integrated throughout our business, whether that’s how we go about our day-to-day operations, interact with one another or design and build our solutions. This series looks beyond just how our products can benefit businesses. It also explores how they are helpful to the people using them. This article focuses on eSignatures. Tackling fraud People are becoming more aware and better informed of the different types of scams out there. So fraudsters have had to respond with new and increasingly complex techniques. In turn, people and businesses need
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Jan 18, 2024
Addressing social challenges: How identity verification can help solve everyday problems
At Yoti, we consider our social purpose alongside everything we do. Through every step of the design process, we think about the everyday challenges that our solutions can solve. This series looks at how our products can benefit individual users and wider society. This article focuses on how identity verification could help with some common issues. Why do we need to verify our identity online? As technology evolves, more services are moving online. Companies need to ensure that the right people can access the right services for them. This has resulted in a growing need for people to prove