We are pleased to announce that the following candidates have been successful in the election for OIX General Member Board Representatives for 2021: [...]

The Royal Holloway University of London has produced an excellent report on Digital Identity: Ground-up Perspectives. [...]

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 success. [...]

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 ad [...]

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 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 anyone – not even Nuggets. The platform enables consumers to retain control of their personal data. And spares businesses the enormous risks and costs of maintaining databases of customer records. [...]

The UK Government yesterday released its response to the Digital Identity: Call for Evidence: [...]

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 [...]

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-a-14547 [...]

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 validation and verification. This is an excellent step forward for the acceptability of Digital Identities in a vital new use case. It will enable users to easily open a new account and instantly pass AML KYC ID checks using [...]