Press releases

Yoti and Avakin Life logos presented together

Avakin Life steps up player protection with Yoti’s age assurance, ensuring a secure and enjoyable experience for players

Avakin Life adult players can choose to verify their age to unlock exclusive 18+ game features    15th November 2023, London, UK – Avakin Life, a 3D life-simulation video game has introduced age assurance technology from digital identity company Yoti. Players can now verify their age to unlock exclusive age-restricted features, and any players who are suspected to be underage will be asked to confirm their age. The move is the latest step from Lockwood Publishing to enhance privacy and safety features on the Avakin Life platform.  Players can choose to verify their age using Yoti’s facial age estimation

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Paays and Yoti Partner to Reduce Identity Fraud in Auto Financing

2nd November 2023, London, UK – Paays Financial Technologies Inc. (“Paays”), a leading provider of Fraud Detection, KYC, AML and Income Verification software solutions in Canada, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Yoti, a leading digital identity company. Paays will integrate Yoti’s identity verification technology with the Paays ID Verifier solution, to streamline the customer journey, strengthen identity checks and reduce the risk of fraud in auto finance applications. Lenders and dealers in auto finance are seeing increasing customer demand for digital processes. The Paays ID Verifier enables auto dealers and lenders to verify the identity of customers

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Pages of the Lloyds Bank Smart ID displayed on two smartphone screens

Yoti releases a new Digital ID app with Lloyds Bank

This follows the £10 million Lloyds Banking Group invested in Yoti to support the development of a new, reusable digital identity proposition London, UK, 2nd October 2023: Yoti has released a new Digital ID app with Lloyds Bank – Lloyds Bank Smart ID. The app gives people a more private, secure and convenient way to prove their age or identity from their phone.  This follows the £10 million investment Lloyds Banking Group made in Yoti earlier this year. The investment supported the development of a new, reusable digital identity app to help combat the growing risks of identity fraud,

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Britton Management Profile partners with Yoti to streamline pre-employment identity checks

28th June, London, UK – Today, Britton Management Profiles, Canada’s first background screening company, has partnered with digital identity company Yoti to streamline and strengthen pre-employment identity checks. Britton Management has been trusted by global companies for over 48 years. They complete a number of background screening checks on a global level – from references, employment verifications, criminal background checks and identity verification on a global level. Historically, identity checks were completed by physically inspecting identity documents. But during the Covid pandemic, organisations had to pivot and find new ways to verify the identity of candidates. Britton Management has integrated

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Yoti, Mitek and Synectics Solutions logos presented together for Project Shield

Digital ID 'Shared Signals Pilot' launched to tackle evolving fraud risks

The first of-its-kind pilot is set to prove the feasibility of real-time fraud intelligence sharing between Identity Service Providers (IDSPs), the outcome of which could have major implications for fraud prevention, and help boost mainstream Digital Identity adoption.   Stoke-on-Trent, 05 June, 2023 — Data insight specialist, Synectics Solutions, has announced that it has joined forces with leading IDSPs Mitek and Yoti on ‘Project Shield’. This ground-breaking proof of concept (POC) initiative aims to show how IDSPs can efficiently and securely share data connected to compromised credentials, accounts, and identities, via a shared signals co-ordination platform. In so doing,

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Yoti and SuperAwesome announce partnership to improve online safety and enhance parental consent

Digital identity company Yoti has today announced a partnership with SuperAwesome, an Epic Games company that provides tools for safer, responsible digital engagement with younger audiences. The two companies are integrating Yoti’s facial age estimation into SuperAwesome’s Kids Web Services (KWS) parent verification tool. KWS enables developers to verify the identity of parents or guardians when granting their children permission to use features that collect personal information. This process, known as Verifiable Parental Consent (VPC), is needed to confirm that the parent giving permission is, in fact, an adult and ensure compliance with privacy laws. VPC is typically done by

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