As President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), Joni builds on 15 plus years of experience in Digital Identity innovations and standards development. She helps DIACC to fulfil its vision of unlocking interoperability of public and private sector capabilities through the establishment of an i...

Richard is a Senior Policy Advisor for the FLA, specialising in fraud related issues within consumer credit, anti-money laundering and a number of other key issues for the consumer credit industry. He is also on the main Board and Editorial Board of the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG).

Rob has spent a working lifetime in IT and the last 17 years in the field of identity. As Business Development Director at GB Group, Rob was tasked with establishing a new division to design, develop and market the UK’s first purpose-built electronic identity verification service. The service became widely recognised as the market ...

Edward has over twenty-five years’ experience working with leading edge and innovative technologies to realise business benefit. Edward is the Head of Digital Services at Gemserv since joining in September 2018. He leads the digital services practice, and works with our clients to define and deliver their digital strategies, ensuring they align with the goals of their business.

He has held many enterprise architecture roles, leading teams to deliver business, technol...

Stella has extensive experience in the gambling sector. Her earlier career spans more than two decades, predominantly as Casino Manager at leading high end London casinos and in Resourcing & Development, specialising in training, compliance and licensing.

Stella joined the BGC in 2019 following transition in her role as Regulatory Affairs Manager at The Remote Gambling Association.

Prior to this, Stella spent 9 years at GamCare as Head of Ed...

Please visit our “About” & 'Find out More' pages.

Join HERE

OIX encourages membership from all elements of the ID ecosystem.

If you are a provider of identity services or a representative of an organisation that relies on verified IDs within its business processes, your input into the development of our guidance on trust frameworks and interoperability will be hugely valuable.  

Whether from the public or private sector, a regulator or trade association, media or analyst,

Open market models underpin the development of a sector that is innovative, competitive and focused on user needs. This includes:

More choice for eCommerce and product managers about the policies that they apply to user interactions.

Market pricing for products and services across the entire identity infrastructure.

Economies of scale as service standardization lowers costs for all parties

A more inclusive approach as the needs of diverse users are actively con...

Yes, the key challenge to providing identity assurance at scale is removing the need for direct trust agreements between ID services providers and those who rely on IDs for their business processes. OIX is a membership community for all those involved in the ID sector. Vendors and clients, regulators and influencers connect and collaborate to develop the rules, tools and confidence to create Trust Frameworks for identity in order to accept universally trusted identities.

Communications & events specialist with over 25 years experience.

Mark focuses on the development and clarification of operational strategy in complex integrating markets (telecoms/Internet). Primary interest in data monetisation, cybersecurity, and helping telecoms 'make money and grow subscribers'. A media friendly spokesman, he has appeared in the press, on television & moderating panels, discussing data privacy, the internet and all things digital.

Richard graduated as an electrical and electronic engineer and started his career in BBC Radio Engineering. Following on he moved into telecommunications as systems engineer for BT in Global Sales and then into SmartTrust to develop new content services for mobile devices. In 2003, after leaving SmartTrust, he launched the Oz Clarke Mobile Wine Guide in conjunction with his publisher on several mobile networks. 

Highly experienced communications professional with over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering strong strategic communications programmes. I have worked directly with leadership teams, managing expectations and securing support, while mapping out communications strategies aligned to commercial objectives. 

A sales professional experienced in all aspects of Account Management & Business Development, within Identity Management, Credit Risk, Fraud Avoidance, Authentication and Application Processing, across financial services, retail and mail order sectors.



Having worked across multiple lines of business and geographies, forming, developing and leading teams, ensuring stakeholder objectives are aligned across clients, partners and internally whilst engaging across the busine...

Government urged to extend data available for identity digital verification techniques to increase access to government and private sector services, and increase inclusion

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 out by the OIX.  We hope that the OIX, and it's members, feel they can contribute to our work in developing the digital identity trust scheme for the home buyin...

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 world.

On 2^nd 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 provision of European Digital I...

Thales UK joins The Open Identity Exchange

A project may be formed (sponsored) by any member of OIX in collaboration with one or more other members. Non-member organisation may collaborate on an OIX project. All non-members are required to sign the OIX Participant Agreement (Link) to protect IPR.

There are three ‘costs’ associated with running an OIX project: Participation fee, Facilitation Fee and Project Funds.

Participation Fee: All participating organisations will pay a ‘part...

At all times, participating members and non-members in projects and white papers must observe the Code of Conduct.

This policy is to set out the principles by which OIX projects should be formed, governed and executed with the intent of achieving a desirable outcome and to set out the principles relating to the publication of white papers. The objectives are to ensure OIX Projects:

• Further Identity
  
• Are clearly aligned to the OIX’s vision, mission and objectives
  
• Are effectively managed within the limitations of the scope, resources...

A Member paper may be written by one or more OIX members. It should reflect a current issue or opportunity that is relevant to the purpose of OIX and is to further identity

A member(s) who wishes to write a paper and publish it through OIX, should initially produce a synopsis of the intended paper and present it to the OIX Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will provide comment as to whether it believes it is suitable and relevant and, if not, offer informe...

A project report reflects the outcomes of a project. It is written by an author who should be appointed on commencement of a project.

A project report is published to an international community. It should be concise and written for a predominantly business-level readership. Industry jargon should be avoided. It is good practice to include a glossary.

Additional project material may be published alongside a project report. This may include techni...