Transforming EU Identity Verification: Signicat's Biometric Leap with Innovatrics
Signicat's integration of Innovatrics' biometric engine into VideoID enhances EU identity verification. Discover how this upgrade addresses fraud, inclusivit...
Key Takeaways
- Signicat's integration of Innovatrics' biometric engine enhances VideoID's accuracy and security.
- The new system meets stringent eIDAS and SEPBLAC requirements, ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Innovatrics' technology reduces false rejection rates, particularly for elderly and ethnically diverse users.
- The platform supports thousands of daily verifications across the EU, reinforcing fraud prevention.
The Future of EU Identity Verification: Signicat and Innovatrics Lead the Way
In a significant step forward for digital identity solutions, Signicat has integrated Innovatrics' biometric engine into its VideoID platform, enhancing remote verification capabilities across the European Union. This integration marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of identity verification, addressing the growing sophistication of fraud techniques while ensuring regulatory compliance and inclusivity.
Meeting Stringent Regulatory Requirements
The European Union has stringent regulations for digital identity verification, particularly under the eIDAS framework and Spain's AML/KYC authority, SEPBLAC. These regulations demand high accuracy, security, and inclusiveness, making it challenging for many providers to meet the necessary standards. Signicat's previous provisional biometric system, while suitable for early deployments, needed a robust upgrade to keep pace with evolving threats.
Why Innovatrics?
After evaluating alternatives from major cloud providers, Signicat chose Innovatrics for its 1:1 face matching engine with passive biometric liveness detection. Innovatrics' technology stands out for its high performance, fairness, and compliance with eIDAS and SEPBLAC requirements. The biometric engine, benchmarked by NIST FRTE, ensures reliable and unbiased performance across diverse demographics.
Key Features of the Upgraded Platform
Enhanced Accuracy and Inclusivity
The integration of Innovatrics' biometric engine into VideoID has significantly improved accuracy and reduced false rejection rates, especially for elderly users and individuals from ethnically diverse backgrounds. This is achieved through risk-based, adjustable settings that can be fine-tuned to meet the specific needs of different customer profiles.
Layered Fraud Prevention
The upgraded platform employs a multi-layered approach to fraud prevention. Video-injection protection secures the capture channel, passive liveness detection confirms the presence of a real person, and deepfake detection adds an extra layer of security. These measures collectively ensure that the verification process is both secure and user-friendly.
Scalability and Flexibility
One of the standout features of the new system is its scalability and flexibility. The integration was completed in six months with minimal disruption, and threshold configurations can be adjusted per market, enabling fast, multi-country rollouts. This flexibility is crucial for Signicat as it expands into new markets, ensuring that the platform remains adaptable to varying regulatory and operational requirements.
The Impact on Daily Operations
Since the integration, the upgraded VideoID platform has been performing thousands of verifications daily across the EU. This robust system supports the remote issuance of eIDs and qualified certificates, providing legal validity equivalent to in-person checks. The enhanced capabilities of the platform are particularly valuable in regulated, high-risk environments where the balance between usability and security is critical.
Expert Insight
Silvia Lafuente, Tribe Lead at Signicat, highlighted the significance of the integration: 'Innovatrics identity verification technology strengthened the heart of our VideoID solution, giving us the flexibility and reliability needed to strike the complicated balance between usability and security—especially in regulated, high-risk environments. The guarantee of biometric models trained on unbiased datasets gives us the confidence to expand into new markets.'
The Bottom Line
Signicat's integration of Innovatrics' biometric engine into VideoID represents a transformative leap in EU identity verification. By combining cutting-edge technology with stringent regulatory compliance, the platform sets a new standard for accuracy, security, and inclusivity. As fraud techniques continue to evolve, this collaboration ensures that Signicat remains at the forefront of digital identity solutions, empowering businesses and individuals across the EU with reliable and efficient verification services.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Signicat's integration with Innovatrics improve identity verification?
The integration enhances accuracy and reduces false rejection rates, particularly for elderly and ethnically diverse users, through Innovatrics' 1:1 face matching engine and passive biometric liveness detection.
What regulatory standards does the upgraded VideoID platform meet?
The platform meets the stringent requirements of eIDAS and SEPBLAC, ensuring regulatory compliance and high standards of accuracy and security.
What is the impact of the new system on daily verifications?
The upgraded VideoID platform now performs thousands of verifications daily across the EU, supporting remote issuance of eIDs and qualified certificates with legal validity equivalent to in-person checks.
How long did the integration process take, and what was its impact on operations?
The integration was completed in six months with minimal disruption, and threshold configurations can be adjusted per market, enabling fast, multi-country rollouts.
What is the significance of Innovatrics' biometric models being trained on unbiased datasets?
This ensures high performance and fairness across demographics, reducing bias and improving the overall reliability of the identity verification process.
