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Digital identity verification is a security method applied in the processing of digital transactions. Digital identity verification is used to enable the remote verification of an individual’s identity, ensuring that they are who they claim to be online. This is most often used for digital onboarding customers onto an online service, but can also be used to verify identity when authorizing Fintech money transfers, or for access management. With the growing threats and increasingly complex fraud methods used by malicious actors, it is vital that institutions that handle sensitive data use up-to-date methods to protect their end-users. Digital Identity Market Development Many digital identity verification vendors offer solutions that increase the accuracy, security, and user experience of the digital onboarding process, and of other digital identity verification use cases. It's important that due to the variety of digital business use cases, other secure forms of identity verificatio...

Digital identity is constantly evolving and increasingly combined with allied areas, such as online security, privacy, and the management of identity-related data. Digital identity is essentially an online persona of a subject, or a unique representation of a subject, engaged in an online transaction. However, digital identity presents a more complex picture when current multi-use ecosystems that are heavily dependent on the sharing of identity credentials are considered. Such an identity is made up of identifiers and patterns that are unique to the subject of identity, which is broadly described as attributes. These attributes (inherent or ascribed) are core biographic data (e.g. name and address) and certain biometric features (e.g. fingerprints, iris scan) electronically captured in the context of personal digital identity. Digital Identity Market Development According to the latest worldwide market study by Juniper Research, revenue for digital identity vendors will exceed $53 bill...