UK, 10 March 2023 – Mitek: https://www.miteksystems.com , a global leader in digital identity verification, has joined the Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://openidentityexchange.org/members/anon/new.html?destination=%2Findex.html , a global co read more

The TBI “A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of Britain”: https://institute.global/policy/new-national-purpose-innovation-can-power-future-britain   report calls for a decentralised government-managed Digital ID.   Is this the read more

OIX was asked by the collective Trust Schemes in the UK to assess whether any additional data standards are needed for Digital ID presentation in the UK over and above the standard already published as part of the UK Digital Identity and Attributes Tr read more

2023 looks like it will be another year of enormous transformation for digital identity across the globe. We are seeing country after country offering citizens options to use digital IDs to access services within the public and private sector. Many of read more

OkularID: https://www.okularid.com/ , the world’s first biometric-based data privacy solution, has joined the Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://openidentityexchange.org/members/anon/new.html?destination=%2Findex.html community to contribute i read more

UK, 12th January 2023 – TrustID: https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furlsand.esvalabs.com%2F%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.trustid.co.uk%252F%26e%3D55505485%26h%3Dde4ca426%26f%3Dy%26p%3Dn&data=05%7C01%7Csarah.croft%40trus read more

The digital ID verification company joins the OIX to ensure safe, simple and inclusive access to digital IDs, across all sectors, globally.   London, UK. 29 November 2022 - World-leading digital ID verification company OCR Labs Global: https://ocrl read more

OIX’s Identity Trust Conference will place much needed focus on the needs of organisations that will have to rely on digital ID   UK, 08 September 2022 – Digital ID is here and evolving rapidly towards global adoption. All organisations, particula read more

OIX’s Identity Trust Conference will offer clarity around how global interoperability can be achieved   UK, 16 August 2022 – This is one of the most pressing issues around the implementation of digital ID for organisations that will soon have to a read more

OneSpan becomes Silver Sponsor UK, 05 August 2022 – OIX is delighted to announce that the European technology leader consulting, digital services and software development, Sopra Steria: https://www.soprasteria.co.uk/ , and a world leader in digital read more

UK, 28th July 2022 - Chris Lewis, Head of Solutions with data insight specialist Synectics Solutions: https://www.synectics-solutions.com/ , has been appointed to the Executive Board of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX).: https://openidentityexchang read more

OIX is urging governments and digital ID trust framework creators around the world to implement digital vouching and ensure no one is excluded from the essential services they are entitled to.Ensuring digital ID ecosystems are inclusive is a major cha read more

Global security leader joins the OIX to help drive secure digital ID adoption   UK, 30 June 2022 - OneSpan: https://www.onespan.com/ , the digital agreements security company, has joined the Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://openidentityexc read more

UK, 15 June 2022 – Two of the most influential global membership organisations in the digital ID space have aligned to forge a faster and more secure route to a shared and trusted digital future.   Both The Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://o read more

The innovator in the field of biometrics and digital identity management will help push the inclusion agenda.     UK, 19 May 2022 –  The : https://openidentityexchange.org/members/anon/new.html?destination=%2Findex.html Open Identity Exchange ( read more

UK, 10 May 2022 - The Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://openidentityexchange.org/members/anon/new.html?destination=%2Findex.html is pleased to announce that Daon: https://www.daon.com/ has joined the global OIX community to help drive positi read more

UK, 17 February 2022 - The Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://openidentityexchange.org/members/anon/new.html?destination=%2Findex.html is pleased to announce Geraint Rogers: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraint-rogers-9953b21/ , Product Directo read more

eIDAS 2.0 is certainly progressing at a pace to be applauded! The EU eIDAS expert group working on eIDAS 2.0 has just published the European Digital Identity Architecture and Reference Framework: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-regist read more

Open Identity Exchange urges organisations to leverage this guide and create frameworks and Smart Digital IDs that will ensure future global digital ID success.   UK, 04 February 2022 - The Open Identity Exchange (OIX): https://openidentityexchange read more

It is right and proper that the Open Identity Exchange acknowledge the passing of Kim Cameron, a giant in our field. Our colleague, Joerg Resch eloquently memorialized: https://www.kuppingercole.com/blog/resch/rest-in-peace-kim-cameron  Kim’s many c read more

Moore brings her experience alongside her current role as Director of Citizen and Devolved Government Services at Sopra Steria: https://www.soprasteria.co.uk/ UK: https://www.soprasteria.co.uk/ , to support the development of digital identity bes read more

Government urged to extend data available for identity digital verification techniques to increase access to government and private sector services, and increase inclusion   23 September 2021: The UK Government is being urged to expand its techniq read more

Etive are delighted to be a member of the OIX and the continuing support and leadership it provides to the industry, especially on the importance of identity and collaboration. Etive looks forward to being able to contribute to the work being carried read more

ForgeRock helps enterprises, governments and partners unlock the power of digital identity to deliver truly transformational, delightful, secure and trusted user experiences, and prides itself in helping people safely and simply access the connected w read more

On 2nd June 2021 the European Union released extensive proposed changes to the existing eIDAS regulation.    This will move Digital ID in the EU to the next level; expanding the regulation to cover the provision of attributes and mandating the pr read more

Thales UK joins The Open Identity Exchange London, May 2021   Global technology company Thales, a leading provider of physical and digital identity have announced they have joined OIX. Thales is trusted to produce all of the UK identity document read more

Sopra Steria and The Open Identity Exchange announce partnership to deliver trusted digital identities for government, business and citizens London,  April 2021   European consultancy and digital services leader Sopra Steria has announced that Jaso read more

The decision by Timpson Group to join the Board of Directors of the Open Identity Exchange is remarkable.    Timpson: https://www.timpson.co.uk/about/meet-the-timpsons is a company which proudly carries its entrepreneurial DNA.  Owned by the sa read more

In this consultation response Open Identity Exchange highlights 3 key delivery challenges for Covid Certificates:  User Trust and Certificate IssueCertificate Collation and Status Determination Certificate InteroperabilityThe conclusions drawn by the read more

OIX has today submitted it's member response to the ALPHA UK digital identity and attributes trust framework OIX sees the ALPHA as a good step towards defining how Digital ID can work successfully to support the UK economy. Our response is inten read more

  We are pleased to announce that the following candidates have been successful in the election for OIX General Member Board Representatives for 2021: Martin Ingram - NatWest Frank Joshi - mVine Jim Lound - tScheme Many congratulations to the succ read more

The Royal Holloway University of London has produced an excellent report on Digital Identity: Ground-up Perspectives.   The research and report, created by Lizzie Coles Kemp and Claude P.R. Heath, makes very interesting reading.   It looks a read more

OIX has published a short paper that recommends the approach UK Government might take to make Digital Identity in the UK a success in 2021. The paper also highlights the actions OIX proposes to undertake over the next few months to support this succes read more

OIX responded on 12th October 2020 to the ‘Next steps for DCMS Digital Identity policy development’ questionnaire. Key points made in the response can be summarised as: OIX advocates for a public-private approach to the definition of the UK Trust F read more

OIX has responded to the  consultation on behalf of it’s members. Input was gathered from members in a well attended workshop. Key points raise in OIX supplemental response are: •      OIX is supportive of the move to improve eIDAS regulation and read more

OIX is very pleased to welcome the Identity Provider “Nuggets” to the OIX community. Nuggets is a decentralised, self-sovereign ID and payments platform. It stores your personal and payment data with blockchain, so you never have to share it with a read more

The UK Government yesterday released its response to the Digital Identity: Call for Evidence: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-identity/outcome/digital-identity-call-for-evidence-response: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultatio read more

Today the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) launched OIXnet: http://oixnet.org/ ™, an online registry of trust frameworks and identity systems. It is the first registry developed by global leaders across industry sectors to enable online transactions at read more

OIX has this week released a comprehensive, user centric, technology agnostic guide to trust framework contents, roles, governance and interoperability. This new guide builds on ten years of work by the Open Identity Exchange to define and promote t read more

Implementing trusted digital IDs will create benefits for end users as well as service providers, says Nick Mothershaw, chair and executive director at the Open Identity Exchange. https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/building-trust-in-digital-identities read more

I wanted to update you a really positive change to the OIX governance policy made by the OIX Board. Firstly, we were concerned that general members were under-represented on the OIX board. To date, representation of the OIX general members on the O read more

The UK Joint Money Laundering Steering group (JMLSG) has this week updated its Prevention of money laundering/combating terrorist financing, Guidance for the UK Financial Sector to embrace the use of Digital Identities for the purposes of identity val read more

Aviation is changing drastically and a trust framework between airports, airlines and governments may be the hallmark of that change. With number of people traveling set to almost double from the expected 4 billion this year to 7.8 by 2036, the air read more

Why so much debate about personal data misses the point Ten years ago, when we were setting up Mydex we published a White Paper — The Case for Information Empowerment the rise of Personal Data Stores: https://mydex.org/sites/mydex.org/files/assets read more

The need for a new personal data infrastructure In our last blog: http://openidentityexchange.org/blog/2018/07/04/why-so-much-debate-about-personal-data-misses-the-point/  we argued that the core issue with personal data today is not a matter of read more

So far in this series, we have explained 1) that the biggest, most important issue about personal data is the one least talked about: the structural flaw at the heart of our system whereby individuals cannot gather, store or use their data for their o read more

When people talk about personal data, many quickly get ensnared by endless debates about consent: what it means, whether people really understand what they are consenting to, how best to give and get informed consent, and so on. Consent is meant to read more

Thanks to all who voted to elect a general member and their alternate who will represent you on the Open Identity Exchange Board of Directors. I am pleased to announce the election of Jim Lound as the 2019 General Member Representative on the OIX Bo read more

Dear Parliamentary Accounts Committee When reviewing GOV.UK Verify the Parliamentary Accounts Committee should consider a wider perspective as set out in the attached OIX report on the ‘Cost of Doing Nothing’ or the more recent McKinsey report – ra read more

The OIX UK Europe Board is represents of some of the identity industry’s best developers, marketers, and policy-makers. Their leadership is increasingly making a real difference for UK citizens, government officials and businesses. We are pleased to a read more

The Open Identity Exchange is pleased to announce that HSBC have become an Executive level member, taking up positions on both the OIX global and OIX UK Europe Chapter board of directors.  This global bank strengthens OIX’s financial services represen read more

New OIX Project, White Paper and Workshop policies  At our September OIX members meeting in London thoughts and views concerning the benefits members and non-members receive through OIX projects, white papers and workshops were discussed in some det read more

Economics of Identity: The Road to 2020 Following Up: Further information regarding the Proposed Working Groups Following the Economics of Identity Conference in collaboration with techUK, four working groups are now in the process of being set up: read more

The identity landscape has changed significantly in recent years. From an OIX point of view, the changes that have taken place from the Economics of Identity meeting last May to next month’s Economics of Identity event on 11 February have been the mos read more

One of OIX objectives over the next 6-9 months is to produce and publish are a set of Overarching Trust Framework Guides and Interoperability Guides. A “framework of frameworks”. The purpose of this is to enable the following parties to better unde read more

The circumstances we currently find ourselves in with COVID-19 are certainly unprecedented. Social distancing and stay-at-home mean that transactions that could traditionally be face to face are now no longer possible.  From shopping to undertaking read more

For those of you unaware of LIGHTest, OIX was one of 14 partners of the consortium operating in nine European countries. LIGHTest was funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and aimed to build a global trust infrastructure where arb read more

A Blueprint for International Oversight of the Digital Identity Market In the first of these blogs, we looked at the recommendations for the UK set out in the new report we prepared for OIX;  A Blueprint for National and International Oversight of th read more

The goal laid down in today’s budget is to create a Digital Identity market that allows users to prove who they are digitally, without the need for paper. It’s no surprise that this is cited to boost the digital economy; in fact, it will boost the eco read more

The Trusted Environments Alpha Project is progressing well with three workshops and a kickoff having already taken place. The workshops are covering three of the deliverables: Agreeing a base set of implementation standardsMeta data model and tec read more

Markets are complex, with many moving parts and participants of various types. The Digital Identity market is no exception. Maintaining order in such complex systems almost always requires oversight of some type, and as a result, market oversight orga read more

On the eve of the OIX Economics of Identity conference next Tuesday, OIX is pleased to announce that Nick Mothershaw has been appointed Chief Executive of the Open Identity Exchange. Nick joined OIX back in November to initially help define and kic read more

A happy new year to you all! And welcome to the next decade! As we enter the 2020s we can expect to see the adoption of interoperable Digital ID really start to accelerate. Much has been achieved already, such as: The introduction of Verify in read more

To make sure that any Digital ID ecosystem operates to the rules that ensure the use of Digital ID is safe, consistent and interoperable, some sort of Competent Authority is required. These rules are not just defined at a national level, but in order read more

By Nick Mothershaw, OIX Chair  From an Identity perspective the result of the UK general election means we should see continuity in policy that gives certainty to the government’s strategy around Digital ID. This is fantastic news! OIX can press read more

In an era governed by digital transactions and data, our methods for managing digital identities, security, and privacy are proving inadequate. At the same time, consumers are looking to do business with companies that have minimal friction as part of read more

Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is delighted to announce that its chairperson, Nick Mothershaw, formerly Director of Identity and Fraud Solutions at Experian UK&I, has now also been appointed an Executive Director of OIX. Nick’s main objective is to d read more

Having participated in the EU Horizon 2020 LIGHTest project for the last three years, OIX is sad to see the project start to wrap up now! You can see a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEaCMcVer28&t=4s  demonstrating LIGHTest’s objective read more

One of the key objectives of TISA’s Open Savings and Investments project is to enable users to release data held in saving and investment accounts in the same way as they can from their current accounts through Open Banking. Using a trusted digital ID read more

The creation of the Industry Delivery Group (IDG) by the Money and Pensions Service heralds the start in earnest of the delivery of a Pensions Dashboard infrastructure for the UK which is a key next step in the evolution of Digital Identity in the UK. read more

Computer Weekly recently referred to OIX in its article commenting on potential changes within the governments Verify program. It seems timely to provide an update on what OIX is currently focussing on. OIX will be responding to the governments consul read more

The Scottish Government is seeking to develop a common approach to digital identity, that will enable individuals to access the public services in Scotland that they need to. This however is a complex and multi-faceted problem. Both individuals and re read more

The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) applauds the announcements that the Minister for Implementation, Oliver Dowden MP, made at last week’s Identity Week 2019 conference regarding the UK government’s continued commitment to digital identity. The establ read more

A new OIX White Paper explores the degree of interoperability and alignment between the Government’s recently updated Digital Identity Standards – Good Practice Guide 45 (GPG45) – and industry’s own guidance regarding the way that banks and other fina read more

OIX engage David Goodman as new Executive Director The Open Identity Exchange is delighted to announce at our Economics of Identity Conference that we’ve engaged David Goodman as our new Executive Director. David is a seasoned identity and access man read more

The evolution of the OIX and the search for its new Executive Director of OIX has begun in earnest! With OIX’s “surge strategy” now underway, and GDS’s new leadership in place, a new Executive Director is needed to lead the only UK based technology read more

The National Audit Office report published yesterday denigrates GOV.UK Verify to ‘yet another government IT failure’ and permits commentators to lament GDS failing to live up to its promise. The report fails to consider the enormity of the digital ide read more

In 2012 the Cabinet Office joined the Board of the newly formed Open Identity Exchange. It recognized the two traditional means of delivering government policy – procurement and regulation – would not be effective to GOV.UK: http://gov.uk/  Verify’s read more

OIX UK | Europe General Member Representative to the Board Announcement Thanks to all who voted to elect a general member and their alternate who will represent you on the Open Identity Exchange UK | Europe Board of Directors. This year at the sugges read more

Digital identity for thin file citizens and local authorities Alpha White Paper Federated identity is a powerful mechanism for increasing customer convenience, enhancing organisational efficiency and transforming the way online services are delivered read more

This year we are implementing the use a single transferable vote / instant-runoff system for the election of the OIX UK | Europe Board, General member representative, to replace the first-past-the-post approach we’ve used previously. Some useful de read more

Etive are holding a digital identity/Verify round table discussion at Rochdale Town Hall on the 8th November, facilitated by iNetwork. Local authorities and housing associations are invited to this round table discussion to find out more about the read more

Open Identity Exchange welcomes Post Office as an Executive Member : https://openidentityexchange.org/members/postoffice/ The Open Identity Exchange is thrilled to announce that the Post Office has joined as an Executive level member.   Post Offi read more

The Impact of Biometric Boarding on Airline Liability We published a new paper through OIX this week, titled Biometric Boarding using Identity as a Service: http://openidentityexchange.org/blog/2018/08/08/biometric-boarding-using-identity-as-a-servi read more

New OIX Project: Women in Identity Intern Women in Identity (WiD) aims to foster new relationships and mentorship between women in different areas of the identity industry. Their goal is to inspire confidence and community among women in this rapidly read more

The Accord Project (http://www.accordproject.org: http://www.accordproject.org/ ) is pleased to announce the release of its Open Identity Exchange white paper, Accord Project ID: The Smart Legal Contract Identity and Trust Framework Standard: http: read more

Using Verify for Local Authority Multi Service Portals (Alpha Project) – information governance A key project hypothesis is that local authorities collect high quality information, governed by rigorous processes, that will be suitable for helping thei read more

Digital Identity in the UK: The cost of doing nothing I often find it hard to believe that in an age of ubiquitous smart phones, each with voice recognition software and either facial recognition or finger print scanner included, that I so often have read more

Open Identity Exchange to Incubate the Distributed Ledger Foundation Incubation means different things to each of us. For those of us in the technology space, when we hear the term “incubation” we think of a start-up organization being incubated wi read more

Whether you’ve been a member of Open Identity Exchange (OIX) before, or know very little about us, we are looking for some feedback! We are conducting a short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/OIXmarketsurvey  open to all those who are act read more

OIX UK Europe General Member Representative to the Board Announcement Thanks to all who voted to elect a general member and alternate who will represent you on the Open Identity Exchange UK Europe Board of Directors. All general members were eligible read more

Blog #2 By Ian Litton, project manager. At the heart of the Etive OIX project is exploring how locally held data can help hard to reach groups achieve a GOV.UK Verify account. In this blog, though, I take a step back and talk about why highly assured read more

London Chapter of Women in Identity held its First Ever Meeting The London Chapter of Women in Identity held its first ever event on the 29th of January 2018. Three members of the steering committee: Emma Lindley of Innovate Identity, as well as Pame read more

OIX UK /Europe announces Sue Dawes as Executive Director The Open Identity Exchange UK/Europe is pleased to announce that Sue Dawes, who has been working for a number of years as Programme Manager, will be assuming the role of Executive Director. read more

Women In Identity Event – 29th January, 2018 Women In Identity (WiD) kicked off at Identiverse: https://identiverse.com/  in Chicago in June 2017. We were wondering at the time how many people would turn up…….we shouldn’t have been concerned becaus read more

Using Verify for Local Authority Multi Service Portals (Alpha Project) There is keen interest amongst local authorities in how GOV.UK Verify could be used to help them deliver services more effectively, more efficiently, at lower cost, and in ways th read more

I’ve resisted jumping on the blockchain bandwagon. No doubt blockchain and DLT continue to be hot topics. But the conversation is now maturing. Technical collaboration is happening at a rapid pace in places like the Decentralized Identity Foundatio read more

A consortium of leading European private and public sector organisations has announced it will begin a ground-breaking pilot into the use of a citizen’s national digital identity from France to open a bank account in the UK. The consortium comprise read more

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Open Identity Exchange UK Europe, I am pleased to announce our endorsement of the “Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development: Towards a Digital Age: http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/id4d read more

The question of how to reach the digital footprints of the demographics who are the highest public service users must be answered alongside the need to address behaviour change to make digital identity a reality for Local Authorities The OIX Discov read more

The financial service sector is currently undergoing a dramatic transformation as it embraces the digital revolution.  Technological, regulatory and customer behaviour driven change deliver threats to existing business models and create opportunities read more

Economics of Identity: The Road to 2020 Following Up: Further information regarding the Proposed Working Groups Following the Economics of Identity Conference in collaboration with techUK, four working groups are now in the process of being set up: read more