Identy.io provides biometric authentication on mobile phones, for secure and user-friendly identity verification, enabling government and corporate customers to grow operations with a cost-effective suite of products.
For twenty years, a six-digit code sent by text message was how the world proved identity online. That period is ending, and not because the industry decided to move on. Regulators decided for it. The United Arab Emirates set the hardest deadline: licensed financial institutions had to be off SMS
Most liveness detection vendors will show you the same demo. A phone, a face, a green checkmark. That tells you almost nothing about how the system behaves when someone actually tries to break it. This guide gives you a framework to evaluate liveness detection software on the things that separate
Mule accounts pass KYC. That is the whole problem. A money mule account is opened with a real name, a real document and a real face. Every check the onboarding flow was designed to run comes back clean, because nothing about the identity is false. The fraud is not in
The agricultural sector remains one of the main economic drivers throughout Latin America. In Brazil, this industry accounts for nearly 6.9% of GDP, according to data from the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA), while in Colombia, the growth in agricultural value added was 4.1% last year, exceeding the
The global financial system is currently facing mounting pressure due to the rise of digital fraud. According to recent data from the Central Bank of Brazil, in less than five months of 2026, 25 fraud incidents have already been recorded out of 33 security events reported by the agency—the highest
The best identity verification software is not a brand — it is a set of verifiable properties: independently benchmarked biometric accuracy, certified liveness detection, universal device reach, modality coverage that matches your use case, and a privacy architecture that survives regulatory scrutiny. This guide gives you the evaluation framework, the
Biometric authentication confirms a returning user’s identity through a unique biological trait (face, fingerprint or palm) instead of a password or token. Because the credential is the person, it cannot be phished, shared, reused across services or forgotten. This guide explains how biometric authentication works, the main methods and their
The rapid digitization of financial, administrative, and telecommunications services in Latin America has accelerated the adoption of biometric verification solutions and advanced biometrics for telecommunications to combat the growing rise of digital fraud and identity theft. In Mexico alone, nearly 16 million people could fall victim to some form of
Biometric verification is only as strong as its ability to know a real human is in front of the camera. Liveness detection software is the anti-fraud layer that makes that determination — rejecting printed photos, screen replays, 3D masks, synthetic identities and injected deepfakes before they ever reach the matching
The Football World Cup is, without a doubt, one of the major sporting and social events of the decade. Until July 19th, 48 national teams will be competing for victory in a tournament which, for the first time in history, is held across three different host countries (Mexico, Canada and
Identity verification is the process of confirming that a person is who they claim to be. It combines three layers of evidence: something the person has (a government-issued ID document), something the person is (a biometric trait such as face, fingerprint or palm), and data that can be checked against
Over the past few years, the internet has become one of the main tools facilitating financial inclusion. So much so that financial transactions conducted remotely now far outnumber those conducted in person. For example, in Colombia, it is estimated that eight out of ten financial transactions are now conducted online,
