Enable Secure Financial Transactions Without Passwords

Onboarding and KYC

New customers are a critical source of any bank’s revenue growth, so onboarding them efficiently is among the most important functions they can perform. But onboarding is also a time when banks are most vulnerable to fraud.  Banks that incorporate Knomi into their onboarding process can leverage an applicant’s live selfie to conduct several identity checks that serve to positively verify their identity and to detect when fraud is being attempted.

Different versions of Knomi allow the process to be conducted either from the bank’s mobile app or alternatively via a web page on a mobile or desktop.  A URL can be discovered by the applicant on the bank’s website, advertisement email, or banner ad.  A potential customer simply clicks on the link from their mobile or desktop to initiate an application process in a browser, which includes capture of a live selfie.  In this way, a biometrics-enhanced, browser-based process can simultaneously increase the security and reduce the friction of an onboarding process that doesn’t require an applicant to install a mobile app before applying.

Liveness detection serves several valuable purposes:

• Detection of attempted impersonations of a targeted victim using “spoofs” such as paper or digital photos, videos, or 2D and 3D masks;
• Detection of attempted identity concealment using a non-self, non-human, or partially obscured facial image to avoid future facial recognition-based search detection; and
• Non-repudiation, which is a term to describe a bank’s ability to collect court-admissible evidence that associates the activity of a fraudster to a real person; that is, prevent the fraudster from repudiating his involvement in a fraud attempt.

Liveness detection is also an essential part of these other security measures that rely on biometric matching and search:

• Facial image match-to-ID. This function, along with liveness detection, ensures that the government-issued identity document used to convey identity data is authentic and belongs to the applicant.
• Duplicate checks. Facial images of other customers are searched to ensure that the applicant is not attempting to surreptitiously hold multiple accounts, use a synthetic identity, or assume the identity of an existing account holder.
• Watch list checks. Databases of the facial images of known fraudsters are searched to ensure that the applicant is not a known fraudster.
• External bureau checks. Facial images can be submitted to external law enforcement bureaus to determine whether they have a criminal history.