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"It's a 10x bigger business concern to reject a good person than to let a fraudster through." Most identity verification teams are still measuring the wrong things: pass rates, audit findings, and avoiding fines. That mindset was built entirely to satisfy regulators. KYC has officially left the era of compliance and entered the era of performance. A false rejection rate that looks like a rounding error actually puts thousands of angry users on the phone to your contact center and hands your acquisition spend directly to competitors. The true performance of an identity provider is the false approval rate combined with the conversion rate they can guarantee. They are two sides of the same number.

We could try to describe the energy of Summer Week...or we could just show you! 🪩 Turn your sound on for this one. Kaarel Kotkas' words capture exactly what it means to operate as One Veriff. We brought our global team together to connect, celebrate, and align on the massive opportunities ahead. Press play to see the highlights from an incredible week!

The biggest question in fraud right now is no longer "is this ID real?" It's "who, or what, is actually behind the screen today?" In the August edition of Veriff Times, we break down why verifying a user on day one means very little by day ninety. A pre-verified ID is an assertion of the past, not proof of the present. We also explore how single-signal fraud defenses are failing against AI, how PRNEWS.IO slashed their onboarding time by 90%, and why Veriff was just named to CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies list for 2026. 👇Click through to read this month's insights and let us know which topic your team is currently focused on.

When the internet was built, anonymity was the default. Today, with billions of users accessing high-value digital services, that anonymous foundation is no longer viable. Founder and CEO Kaarel Kotkas reflects on the last decade of building Veriff and the massive shift happening online: 🌍 Billions of users needing recurring verification. 🏢 Millions of businesses moving high-stakes services online. 🔒 Trust replacing payment infrastructure as the ultimate bottleneck for growth. We're still only scratching the surface. Solving the trust layer of the internet is one of the biggest opportunities in technology today.

Over the next two months, the Veriff team is traveling across the Americas to talk about trust, identity, and scaling safely in the AI era. Here is where you can find us: 🗽 Marketplace Risk (New York, Sept 14 to 16) 🇨🇴 Latam Fintech Market (Colombia, Sept 17 to 18) 🇲🇽 Finnosummit (Mexico City, Sept 23 to 24) 🎰 Money20/20 USA (Las Vegas, Oct 18 to 21) If you're heading to New York for Marketplace Risk, make sure to catch our stage session with Feeld on September 15. We'll be discussing how modern platforms answer the internet's hardest question: "Is this person real?" Which of these events are you attending? Drop a comment below so we can schedule some time to connect in person!👇

Automated identity verification should reduce operational burden, not inflate it. Victoria shares what happens when "automated" tools fail on edge cases.

The market knows the agentic AI wave is coming to flood almost every online business. Yet, the industry is stuck in a classic "chicken and egg" problem. We cannot simply open the gates to autonomous AI agents without a dedicated trust framework in place. Big tech players are building powerful LLMs, and global networks like Visa and Mastercard provide the payment rails. Neither group possesses the underlying identity technology required to establish true, real-time accountability. In the latest episode of our Veriff Voices deepfakes series, our CTO Hubert Behaghel breaks down why trust infrastructure must come first before agentic commerce can safely scale. What do you think needs to be solved before platforms open the floodgates to autonomous AI buyers? Let us know in the comments!👇

The biggest threat in agentic commerce isn't the AI agent. It's the anonymous account operating behind it. As AI agents begin executing purchases at machine speed, traditional security models break. If an account relies solely on a one-time onboarding check, accountability disappears the moment a bot takes over. Allowing AI to transact on behalf of unverified users amplifies fraud risk exponentially. Static checks are no longer enough. Platforms need continuous, adaptive identity infrastructure to ensure every automated action traces back to a verified human.

A 90% decrease in customer onboarding time. That is the immediate impact PRNEWS.IO experienced after partnering with Veriff. As a rapidly growing global content marketing platform, PRNEWS.IO needed an identity verification solution capable of processing documents from diverse countries without letting language barriers or local regulations slow down their momentum. They required a system that was fast, reliable, and seamless to integrate. By implementing Veriff’s self-serve IDV solution, complete with PEP and Sanctions checks, PRNEWS.IO completely transformed their onboarding process in just one week. The immediate results included: A 90% reduction in the time required to onboard new clients. Successfully verifying 280 publisher profiles every single month. Faster responses to financial institutions and minimized tax risks. Built-in trust that assures clients the platform only operates with legitimate businesses. As PRNEWS.IO founder Alexander Storozhuk noted, being able to say with certainty that all users are legitimate directly helps the platform win more business. Discover how our self-serve solution helps media disruptors fight fraud and scale securely (read the full story on our website).

We're proud to share that Veriff has been named to the CNBC “World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026” list! Produced in partnership with Statista, the fourth edition of this global ranking introduces Regtech as a brand-new standalone category. We're incredibly honored to be recognized as a leader in this space. The creation of a dedicated Regtech segment says a lot about where the fintech ecosystem is heading. As our Founder and CEO Kaarel Kotkas explains, compliance and fraud are no longer just back-office problems. Today, they directly decide whether a digital business can grow. AI has made it drastically cheaper for bad actors to impersonate legitimate users. Platforms still need absolute certainty about who is on the other end of a transaction, and providing that certainty is exactly what our team works on every single day. Thank you to CNBC and Statista for the recognition, and congratulations to all the other innovators on this year's list! Read more about the award and explore the full ranking below (link in comments).