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More than a quarter of gig platform users will experience fraud or identity theft – double the rate outside these marketplaces. The platforms that get hit mostly are usually the ones that treated identity verification as something to sort out later.

Not all age verification apps for Shopify are the same thing. Some put a popup in front of your store and call it done. Others actually check who’s buying. This blog post breaks down the best options available right now – what each one does, who it’s built for, and where the real gaps are between them.

Find out how Sumsub compares to iDenfy and other identity verification providers across KYC accuracy, KYB depth, AML screening, pricing transparency, and support — and what to actually look for when switching.

Fraud used to require technical skill. That is already gone. Fraud-as-a-Service has turned financial crime into a subscription product – complete with phishing kits and other various synthetic identity packages. This blog post breaks down how the FaaS ecosystem works and why it’s so hard to catch.

The compliance industry has spent years automating individual tasks. Agentic AI is something different – it doesn’t just handle a step, it runs entire workflows, moving between systems and making decisions until a case is complete. This blog post breaks down what that actually means for KYC and where it’s already being applied.

Read this explanation guide on identity verification for iGaming and learn how to verify players and reduce drop-offs, and, at the same time, comply with regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions.

Find out why fraudsters love the concept of a shelf company, how this business structure is used to hide real company owners, and where exactly the grey zone is, compliance-wise.

The idea behind perpetual KYC is straightforward – stop treating customer due diligence as a box you tick once a year and start treating it as something that runs in the background all the time. In practice making that shift is more difficult than it sounds. This blog post gets into how pKYC actually works, and why the old periodic review model is leaving institutions.

France was a few steps ahead when it introduced PSAN registration back in 2019. But the framework has evolved considerably since then, and what the AMF expects from crypto firms today looks quite different from the early days of the PACTE Law. With the MiCA transition deadline at July 1, 2026, firms that haven’t started thinking about their compliance roadmap are already behind.

Find out which eID verification software providers offer the most ROI-adapted onboarding tools in the market and the reasons behind such an assessment.

Business verification in the US is deceptively complex. With no single federal registry, over 50 state-level databases, and popular incorporation states like Delaware offering minimal public disclosure, know your business verification in the USA demands far more than a simple lookup – and the compliance stakes for getting it wrong have never been higher.

In a business environment as efficient and well-regulated as Singapore, legitimacy can be convincingly hidden. A company can be incorporated in days, issued a Unique Entity Number (UEN), appoint nominee directors, and secure a registered address – all without demonstrating meaningful operational substance.