The IDnow Blog: Ideas That Build Trust.

Behind the billions stolen by fraud lies a dark reality: hundreds of thousands of human trafficking victims, enslaved to carry out scams. This article explores how criminal networks recruit and train their forced workforce, and reveals the strategies banks can adopt, from enhanced identity verification to intelligence sharing, to break this cycle and protect their customers.

Regulations can be complicated, especially when it comes to KYC and digital identity. That doesn’t mean explanations need to be. […]

Discover how Finologee, IDnow and LSEG Risk Intelligence are helping financial institutions build a smarter KYC ecosystem – connecting identity verification, screening and monitoring to accelerate onboarding, strengthen compliance and reduce operational load. Watch the on-demand webinar for key insights and practical takeaways.

Patchwork of regulations are putting huge economic pressures on financial services. Will a more harmonized, pan-European approach to identity verification and AML make operations easier? Or will the associated costs of compliance make it worse? As of June 2025, there were approximately 4,752 bank […]

Digital identity verification should be inclusive, intuitive, and accessible to all, regardless of disability. That’s why, in 2025, we set out to enhance our solutions to comply with […]

The world’s most dangerous criminal organizations don’t look like what you’d expect – they resemble Fortune 500 companies. They are sophisticated, disciplined and scaled to the point of industrialization. In this part of our fraud series, we examine the inner workings of the world’s most pervasive crime: social engineering fraud. We go inside the compounds and their corporate-style departments to reveal the organized machinery that makes them so hard to dismantle. 

speed with security and compliance. We sat down with Christopher Krause, Senior Manager Customer Finance at congstar, to discuss how the company’s partnership with IDnow enables seamless eSIM activations and postpaid sign-ups in seconds through AI-powered identity verification, why digital trust has become as important as price or network speed, and why telcos are uniquely positioned to become anchors of digital identity in the era of EU Digital Wallets and decentralized credentials.

How IDnow’s latest collaborative research project, MAMMOth, will make the connected world fairer for all – regardless of skin tone. While the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize certain processes is well documented, there […]

Forget the lone hacker stereotype. Today’s fraud is a $1 trillion global industry run by organized crime syndicates operating from industrial-scale compounds across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. These networks use trafficked workers, corporate structures, and sophisticated tech infrastructure to deceive victims worldwide—and banks are facing mounting losses, compliance costs, and eroded customer trust as a result.

We sat down with Carlo Maragliano from digital platform Finologee to explore how financial institutions are getting ready for the […]

We spoke with Florian Werner, CEO of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Glücksspiel (DGGS), the operator behind the JackpotPiraten and BingBong brands, […]

We spoke with Kai Stuebane, Managing Director for DACH at Docusign, to explore how secure digital identity verification is transforming […]