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 Pamela Dingle & Colette D’Alessandro of Ping Identity, hosted the event at the Barclays [...]

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. Don Thibeau, Chairman [...]

Women In Identity Event – 29th January, 2018 Women In Identity (WiD) kicked off at Identiverse in Chicago in June 2017. We were wondering at the time how many people would turn up…….we shouldn’t have been concerned beca [...]

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 that improve the lives of their residents. This OIX Alpha project, which builds on the [...]

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 announce the 2018 elections for the General Member representative to join that Board. First, please join me in thanking to [...]

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 Foundation (DIF), a consortium formed earlier this y [...]

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 airport operations and passenger facilitation [...]

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 detail. Members exchanged their ideas on what changes m [...]

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 comprises HSBC, Barclays, the UK Government Digital [...]

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 representation at this time of new regulation drivers in the UK and Europe and we look to new resulting projects and p [...]