Signicat introduces new solutions to identity verification offering

Identity services provider Signicat has unveiled new additions for its digital identity verification solution, on top of extending its coverage to a total of 208 countries.

With the latest update, Signicat incorporated a fresh interface plus new third party integrations to its platform; other new features include identity document scanning, web-based video interviews, and NFC scanning of passports.

Developing a new API is expected to ensure underlying technologies and methods can be enhanced, combined, or replaced easily. 

“The internet has damaged the concept of trust and created a world where it is easy to masquerade as someone else,” commented Gunnar Nordseth, CEO, Signicat.

“Businesses, particularly those in regulated industries, need to maintain trust in their customer relationships. But as digitisation of customer engagement processes grows, reducing risk and fraud is vital.”

New integrations to the product includes web-based video interviews for identity verification transactions; the agent-based verification solution complies with eIDAS level “High”.

Signicat also introduced automated identity document verification which enables its clients to automatically process different identity documents types via an integration with Onfido’s AI-powered document verification system.

Being able to verify such documents as passports, drivers licenses, national ID cards using artificial intelligence removes manual inspection processes consequently cutting processing times. 

The final addition to the firm’s product enables NFC reading of passports which – when used with supported eMRTD (electronic Machine Readable Travel Documents) – results in signed identity attributes and a high resolution image from the document that aims to remove the risk of fraudulent documents.

This solution is available via an integration with ReadID’s mobile ID verification system.

Nordseth concluded: “Our aim with this release is to future-proof our platform to ensure we can provide our customers with access to best-in-class identity verification technologies across a wide range of markets, all accessible through a single integration point.”