Acuant's Trusted Identity Platform powers trust for all industries with automated identity verification, regulatory compliance (AML/KYC) and digital identity solutions. Omnichannel deployment offers seamless customer experiences to fight fraud and establish trust from any location in seconds. Patented technology is powered by AI to deliver unparalleled results and efficiency in real time. With leading partners in every major industry and completing more than 1 billion transactions in over 200 countries and territories, Acuant is the leader in global coverage.

The Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) is a UKAS-accredited conformity assessment body, comprised of auditors, certification specialists, and data protection experts. We independently test and certify Digital Identity, Identity Assurance and Age Assurance systems for privacy and efficacy – we test that ID and Age Check systems work. We also offer Evaluation Assurance Level Testing from 1 – 7 using the common criteria for biometric, data look up and other types of assurance systems. All our schemes are UKAS-accredited and our Age Appropriate Design and UK GDPR schemes for ID and Age Assurance systems are the only ICO approved criteria of their kind. This offers providers Earned Recognition for compliance with ICO regulations.

Amiqus is the UK’s market leading compliance and onboarding platform across regulated sectors, combining reusable digital identity with staff and client screening at scale. Amiqus partners with and supports the government, regulators and organisations of all sizes to access secure, digital and efficient means to engage with clients and candidates, turning hours of paper-based admin into minutes of online activity. Find out how the Amiqus’ platform has enabled £1.3 million of time saved for NHS recruiters in 2021. Understand why 9/10 of the largest law firms in Scotland trust Amiqus to digitise their KYC and AML processes Learn how Amiqus reduced the end to end pre-employment process for Scottish Government by 80%.

Assuriant delivers the skills and considerable experience of its founder, Nick Tegg, to enable government departments to achieve operational, managerial and efficiency outcomes in the area of cyber security. Assuriant’s cyber security services are currently being deployed at the Department of Work & Pensions. Nick Tegg has over twelve years’ experience of delivering high quality risk assessments and accreditation documentation to system accreditors in the MOD, Police, Home Office and other government departments. As the author of the Who.Me? blog at www.assuriant.co.uk, Nick is researching the use of existing technologies and services to create a personal digital identity; one over which he has complete control and one that he can use for authentication on the Internet. Nick is a strong advocate of Self Sovereign Identity using Verifiable Credentials and founded on a purpose-built blockchain.

The data that drives commercial, banking, and government transactions needs to be used in a smart way. Data orchestration is used to build ID networks, providing the mechanism to use data to facilitate online transactions. Avoco offers an API that provides the functionality needed to create fluid, versatile, privacy-enhanced, secure, and usable, identity data networks. The Avoco API is used to build services and platforms for a variety of use cases, including: * government digital services * reuse of existing identities, such as bank ID, social providers (e.g., Amazon, GoogleID, etc.), * consent management * The API is RESTful and onboarding/off boarding are automated for ease of setup The system is highly configurable and rules-driven to deliver friction-reduced identity registration and data sharing.

We are UK market leaders in Microsoft Azure AD B2C integration and Decentralised Identity implementation. We are a team of more than 30 IAM specialists, including system architects, software developers, security specialists and test engineers. Our team support organisations in creating seamless user journeys built on Microsoft Azure AD. For over six years, we have been Microsoft Gold Partners in the Cloud Platform, and Datacenter categories, and Silver Partner in Security, Application Development and Data Analytics. We are closely involved in the development of the Azure AD B2C platform for external Identity and Access Management (IAM). We are also actively involved in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) with our partners.

Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy, based in the UK and US, specialising in secure electronic transactions. With over 30 years’ experience, we help organisations around the world exploit new technologies to secure electronic payments and identity transaction services. From mobile payments and chip & PIN, to contactless ticketing and smart identity cards, we deliver value to our clients by supporting them in delivering their strategy. We offer advisory services and technical consultancy using a practical approach and expert knowledge of relevant technologies. Hyperlab, our inhouse software development and testing team, further supports our globally recognised expertise at every step in the electronic transaction value chain, from authentication, access and networks, to databases and applications.

Remote Identity Verification Technology. Credas has seen companies across all sectors struggle to keep up with the changing face of compliance, and as a result, has developed identity verification and document authentication technologies that are shaped by legislation Credas has a proven track record in helping businesses fundamentally transform and revolutionise the way they manage their compliance and due diligence. Through technology, design, and implementation across multiple sectors, our world-class products and customer support have won numerous awards for excellence. The UK Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards commended Credas for Regulatory Excellence and recognised that Credas’ product and technology had achieved positive outcomes through ethical practice, for the UK public and businesses.

Daon is an innovator in developing and deploying biometric authentication and identity verification solutions worldwide. Daon has pioneered methods for securely and conveniently combining biometric and identity capabilities across multiple channels with large-scale deployments that span digital banking, insurance, telcos, health, government, education and seamless travel. Daon IdentityX® platform provides an inclusive, trusted digital security experience, enabling the creation, authentication and recovery of a user’s identity across any channel; and VeriFLY® serves as a digital wallet for COVID health credentials, and is becoming the most popular app used by domestic and international travel companies. Many of the world’s iconic brands have placed their trust in Daon for over 20 years, including BNP Paribas, Mastercard, American Airlines, NatWest Group, Hyatt, NZ Post, PWC, Standard Chartered, Australia Post, Banco Colombia, British Airways, Union Bank, and many more.

Deloitte UK is a leading professional services firm – one of the largest in the UK and part of a global network spanning 150 countries and territories. We’re made up of 20,000 professionals, with a wide range of specialist skills, who our clients rely on to help them with programmes and projects that are critical to their success. Whether it’s digital transformation expertise, sustainability know how, cyber skills or financial advice, we help clients in the public, private and third sectors meet challenges big and small. Our breadth of expertise is one of our biggest strengths; we bring together teams with a range of skills – in areas like digital technology, procurement, supply chain, project management and logistics – to apply to our clients’ most complex challenges. Our size means we can do this at speed and at scale, in ways that are making a positive impact on the lives of people all over the UK.

MyIdentity® is the digital identity trust scheme for the home buying and selling process, providing an identity trust framework for consumers getting their identity verification (IDV) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks done as part of the housing transaction. MyIdentity® provides a framework for new home builders, estate agents, conveyancer/lawyers, financial brokers and mortgage lenders. The MyIdentity® scheme provides a framework to enable Service Providers to use a proof of identity provided by certified Identity Providers (IDSPs) and meet their obligations under Customer Due Diligence (CDD). And this is detailed within The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019. A home buyer/seller can now get their IDV & AML checks done once, own these credentials, and share to all the relying parties that they need to share their details with. This reduces customer friction, increases the barriers to fraud, makes it easier to onboard a customer and creates a framework for identity reuse.

Digitisation has transformed ways of working. The linear processes and closed operating models that created value yesterday are today outperformed by loose networks that connect the services and data required to meet user needs, as and when they arise. To thrive – and even survive – in this new world, organisations must become rigorously data-centric, not only adopting new technologies, but also developing new capabilities and exercising new patterns of organisational behaviour. Factern works with business leaders who recognise both the opportunities and the challenges of adapting to an increasingly connected digital world. We shape strategies, prove benefits and lay the foundations to transform the organisation. We put data to work.

Folio was formed around a single vision – empowering the world through identity. The founders of Folio have had extensive experience delivering e-voting systems and saw firsthand the difficulties, inefficiencies and segregation that the current identity systems breeds. And so, Folio was born – a platform that delivers a simple digital identity solution for government and business, bringing inclusivity, security and efficiency to all identity transactions. Using a modular, end to end system Folio provides citizen registration, digital identity issuance and a public/private verification platform. Governments and businesses can use Folio to issue digital identities directly to citizens via the Folio mobile wallet app where the ID document is encrypted, locally stored and secured by multifactor authentication. Users can then use their Folio wallet to simply, quickly and remotely respond to any identity verification request. Folio believes that privacy and control are cornerstones of modern identity and so have designed the platform to ensure that identity owners remain in command of their data, whilst providing a simple and cost effective solution to governments and relying parties.

ForgeRock®, a leader in digital identity, delivers modern and comprehensive Identity and Access Management solutions for consumers, employees and things to simply and safely access the connected world. Using ForgeRock, more than a thousand global customer organizations orchestrate, manage and secure the complete lifecycle of identities from dynamic access controls, governance, APIs, and storing authoritative data – consumable in any cloud or hybrid environment. The company is privately held, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices around the world. For more information and free downloads, visit www.forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on social media: Facebook ForgeRock |Twitter @ForgeRock | LinkedIn ForgeRock |

GBG offers a range of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and verify the identity and location of their customers. Our market-leading technology, data and expertise help our customers improve digital access, deliver a seamless experience and establish trust so that they can transact quickly, safely and securely with their customers online. Headquartered in the UK and with over 1,000 team members across 16 countries, we work with 20,000 customers in over 70 countries. Some of the world's best-known businesses rely on GBG to provide digital services and keep the economy moving, from US e-commerce giants to Asia's biggest banks and European household brands.  To find out more about how we help our customers establish trust with their customers, visit www.gbgplc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @gbgplc

Digital identity and privacy consulting services.

ID Crowd’s expertise is centred on the design, delivery and assurance of business solutions that mitigate key risks and threats. We can help your business deliver solutions that are built on and aligned with international digital identity standards, allowing their use across markets and across global ecosystems.

IdenTrust, part of HID Global, is a leading provider of digital certificates that establish the basis for trusted identity solutions recognized by financial institutions, healthcare providers, government agencies and enterprises around the world.  As the only bank-developed identity authentication system in the world, IdenTrust delivers a legally and technologically interoperable environment for authenticating and using identities in more than 175 countries.  With over 5.1 million certificates in active production, IdenTrust supports over 18 billion validations per year.  IdenTrust provides a spectrum of digital certificates and associated services that ensure the “gold standard” for defining, issuing and managing TRUST on a global basis.  When you need to transact with confidence, look to IdenTrust to provide your digital certificates.

International Airlines Group is one of the world’s largest airline groups with 548 aircraft flying to 274 destinations and carrying almost 95 million passengers each year. It is the third largest group in Europe and the sixth largest in the world, based on revenue. Formed in January 2011, IAG is the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia and Vueling. It is a Spanish registered company with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange and Spanish Stock Exchanges. The corporate head office for IAG is in London, UK. IAG combines leading airlines in Ireland, the UK and Spain, enabling them to enhance their presence in the aviation market while retaining their individual brands and current operations. The airlines’ customers benefit from a larger combined network for both passengers and cargo and a greater ability to invest in new products and services through improved financial robustness. The airline industry is moving gradually towards consolidation though some regulatory restrictions still prevail. IAG’s mission is to play its full role in future industry consolidation both on a regional and global scale. British Airways and Iberia are members of the oneworld alliance.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency.

MIRACL provides the world’s only single step Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) which can replace passwords on 100% of mobiles, desktops or even Smart TVs. MIRACL Trust® ID is a SaaS solution which has no reliance on hardware or OS security features. A combination of proprietary cryptography and protocols provide true MFA security with no sensitive data stored or transmitted. Credential Stuffing, Phishing, Man-in-the-Middle and Replay attacks are stopped dead. End-user enrolment is seamlessly embedded within your registration process and the entire service takes only hours to integrate. This provides a friction-free replacement for outdated security practices such as passwords, OTPs, SMS Texts, push notifications, authenticator apps and key-cards. By eliminating hardware requirements and multi-step processes, your users will love the simplicity and you will appreciate the reduction in support and maintenance overheads. MIRACL Trust® ID is provisioned as a PAYG service at a fraction of the cost of hardware solutions or SMS texts and is capable of scaling to millions of users instantly. A combination of user friendliness, hardware independence and cost make it possible to deploy strong MFA to large enterprise or B2C networks where it was previously impossible or impractical.

Mvine is well known and well respected in the industry. Its work in identity infrastructure engineering stands out for its design and deployments. The company works for and with household names to deliver identity of people and identity of things at the heart of their digital IT estates, supply chains and customer interactions. Nobody understands multi-domain federations better than Mvine.

Mydex CIC, founded in 2007, is an asset and mission locked social enterprise, working to create a secure personal data and identity infrastructure that can transform the delivery of public services and the efficiency and effectiveness of the digital economy and society as a whole. Ours is a classic mission as laid out by Professor Mazzucato. It has a highly specific goal: the creation of a safe, citizen-empowering, efficiency-driving data infrastructure. It encompasses multiple sectors, such as financial services, public administration, health and social care, education. It involves multiple (different, but related) use cases, including management of consents and permissions and GDPR compliance and use of data for multiple purposes (administration, applications, insights and diagnostic, operational delivery of services etc). And it delivers multiple benefits to multiple stakeholders and the economy as a whole.

mypensionID provides leading digital identification and verification technology, specifically for the pensions industry. Utilising innovative, proven mobile technology and biometrics, mypensionID enables members to securely communicate with their pension provider. It confirms and authenticates personal identity against official validated documents, both within the UK and internationally. All within minutes.

We champion potential. Supporting our customers right the way through their lives. Making sure millions of people, families and businesses thrive. We want to be beside them for the barriers they face. Perhaps that’s financial capability and confidence with money. Maybe it’s enterprise and supporting small businesses. It could even be tackling the biggest single challenge of our lifetime. Climate change. By addressing each of these issues, we’re proud to be building something we all need to right now. A purpose-led bank, ready for the future.

Nuggets is a decentralized, self-sovereign payments and ID platform. It stores your personal and payment data with blockchain, so you never have to share it with anyone – not even Nuggets. That means you can stop worrying about data breaches. If companies don’t have to store your data, it’s not there to be breached. You can still buy what you want, and use the services you love. But without worrying about your privacy.

Onfido makes digital identity simple. The company makes it easy for people to access services by digitally verifying them using its Real Identity Platform. The platform allows businesses to tailor verification methods to the individual user and market needs in a no-code, orchestration layer – combining the right mix of document and biometric verifications, trusted data sources, and passive fraud signals to meet their risk, friction and regulatory requirements. 

Partnering with over 900 businesses globally, Onfido helps millions of people access services every day – from billion-dollar institutions to hyper-growth start-ups.
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The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) is the entity set up by the CMA in 2016 to deliver Open Banking. Its trading name is Open Banking Limited. OBIE is governed by the CMA and funded by the CMA9 (Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Danske, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, RBS Group and Santander). Its works with the CMA 9, as well as challenger banks, financial technology companies, third party providers and consumer groups. Open banking is well on its way to revolutionising the way individuals and businesses can use their financial data for their benefit. Since APIs became viable for use, we have experienced tremendous growth, and we now have 294 regulated third-party providers (businesses who use open banking technology) in our ecosystem.

Formed in June 2007, the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) promotes, protects and nurtures the OpenID community and technologies. The Foundation is a non-profit, international standardization organization of individuals and companies committed to enabling, promoting and protecting OpenID technologies. It serves as a public trust organization representing the global community of developers, vendors, and users. The Foundation supports this community by providing needed infrastructure and assistance in promoting and supporting the expanded adoption of OpenID technologies which entails managing intellectual property and brand marks as well as fostering viral growth and global participation. OIDF specifications are created within working groups that are focused on a specific problem, technology, or opportunity for which the contributors deliver a document or series of documents. Each working group has a number of contributors, one or more editors, one or more chairs, and a written charter. The charter defines the scope of work for the working group, as well as its goals and milestones. The completion of a working group charter and subsequent disbanding of the group are viewed as a sign of success. The Foundation engages and updates the global open community on it’s efforts through participation at industry events as well as hosting stand-alone workshops and workshops with key liaison partners. OIDF workshops provide technical insight and influence on current identity standards while allowing participants to engage with industry experts from leading organizations on the latest digital identity topics.

Thirdfort dramatically reduces risks for lawyers during client interactions by automating identity and source of funds checks. Fast, secure onboarding – Self-serve identity checks in minutes. No more waiting to get on with the work. Automatic AML checks – Confirm source of funds checks through integrated, FCA-regulated bank verification. Stay compliant, become efficient – Avoid exposure to financial and reputational risks. And get your time back. Thirdfort invests heavily in hardened, proven security technology. Bang up to date and better than bank grade. We are authorised and regulated by the FCA and the government’s cyber security accreditation scheme, Cyber Essentials Plus. Rest easy. We respect you and your clients’ privacy and comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR.

The Investing and Saving Alliance’s (TISA) ambition is to improve the financial wellbeing of UK consumers by bringing the financial services savings industry together to promote collective engagement, to deliver solutions and to champion innovation for the benefit of people, our industry and the nation. A key focus area for TISA is Digital, and within that Digital Identity. Working with members TISA is defining and creating a Trust Scheme that will allow ID Providers and ID Brokers to be accredited to provide AML KYC ID Verification.

TrustID are specialists in the verification of identity documents and a certified Identity Service Provider (IDSP) for the Home Office Right to Work, Right to Rent and DBS Digital Schemes. Our Identity Document Validation Technology (IDVT) meets Medium and High Level of Confidence checks facilitating straightforward, affordable digital identity validation from anywhere. Our range of flexible services support both digital and non-digital checks using a unique combination of leading technology and a team of highly-trained human experts.

We are trusted by thousands of HR, compliance and security teams, working across over 2000 organisations of all sizes in the public and private sectors. Thanks to our combination of identity validation and biometric services, they can accept identity documents with confidence, support their compliance and protect themselves from fraud, fines and reputational damage.

tScheme is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to improve levels of trust in digital economies. We provide an independent means of establishing and testing the trust of services to recognised standards. tScheme’s growth reflects the rapid growth of online services, particularly those that involve a need for trusted services. We keep a close watch on the needs of the market, regulatory frameworks, trends and other factors to ensure our services maintain their relevance and currency. tScheme also manages the UK trust service providers list in support of the eIDAS regulation on behalf of the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport working with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Digital identity as a force for good. We make it safer for people to prove who they are.