Identity Verification

Confirm the identity of your customer with our range of verification services.

Get to know you customer

The critical first step in your anti money laundering defences is to know the identity to your customer. Different approaches will work better depending on the type of business and the nature of the relationship. Our AML Guard service provides a wide range of identity verification services to support all situations. Have confidence that your customer is who they say they are whether they are based in the UK or abroad.

Electronic ID

Verify your customer’s identity in seconds.
Reduce friction and improve your customer experience.

Benefit from Experian’s over 30 years experience in providing services to the UK’s largest banks and retailers.
3 dimensional approach, analysing the breadth, depth and quality of the available data.

International

Coverage in over 50 countries across 6 continents.
Validate name, address, date of birth, national ID and contact information.

Physical ID

Screen customers from over 190 countries remotely and securely.
Secure web app to capture images of physical ID and comparison photo.
Anti-fraud and forgery checks.
Liveness detection.
Digital and physical manipulation checks.
Biometric analysis.

ID Document Verification

Validate passports, driving licences and more.
Simple secure upload direct to our web portal.
Enhanced technology to assess the document quality.
Anti-fraud and forgery checks.
Digital and physical manipulation checks.
Publicly exposed document detection.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do the ID verification checks include sanctions and politically exposed person screening?

Watchlist screening is included in all of our AML guard identity verification requests. This covers a wide range of sanction and regulatory lists as well as a global database of politically exposed persons (PEPs).

What if my customer has no physical ID to provide?

An alternative to the Physical ID or ID Documents verification checks would be the electronic ID verification. Partnered with industry leading Experian, a wide range of data sources are scanned to verify name, address and date of birth.

Which documents are supported for the Physical ID and ID Documents check?

The service is able to verify passports, driving licences, ID cards and selected residence permits.

Do the identity checks cater for international customers?

Both our Electronic and Physical ID verification solutions can be used to screen customers from all over the globe. Physical ID verification can authenticate documents from over 190 countries and our Electronic ID provides verification from over 50 countries.

Which anti-fraud features does ComplianceAssist provide?

The addition of a UK bank account check and/or Fraud Score can provide extra security to help identify potentially fraudulent applications.