The world's easiest identity verification solution

Persona allows you to craft a solution to almost any identity problem. As you proceed through the Brankas-Kaya Open PHinance Challenge, we invite you to use our platform to turn your ideas into reality.

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Available solutions and tools

As a participant of the Open PHinance Challenge, we encouraging exploration and use of specific Persona solutions that can help you build enduring and innovative fintech products and experiences for people. The solutions include:

Basic identity verification

Ensure that an end-user is who they say they are with 500 free government ID with optional selfie verifications per month.

Collect user data

Persona makes collecting user data simple with a host of integration methods including our low-code hosted method.

Optimized conversion

If you're using Persona's user interface, we make optimizing conversion easy with a variety of configurations.

Fraud discovery

Utilize Persona’s proprietary risk signals to discourage fraud attempts without turning away legitimate users.

Integrate in an afternoon, with or without engineers

No engineering? No problem

Create and send a link to your customers to start verifying them in minutes. No code required.

A seamless, beautiful customer experience with just ten lines of code

Embed Persona into your web page and enable customers to easily verify themselves without ever leaving your experience.

Native SDKs for a mobile-first world

Integrate with our iOS, Android, or React Native SDKs to help you create the best user experience for your customers.

Using Persona during the challenge

From mobile user onboarding flows to fraud-deterring KYC scenarios, Persona makes it easy for you to design and construct world-class digital experiences with the right amount of friction to deter bad actors.

1. Sign up and agree to the terms

Click the 'Try it now' button. You'll need to input the necessary information and verify your email. From here, you'll be placed in the sandbox environment where all data returned is sample data.

2. Explore the Dashboard

In the Sandbox environment you can begin exploring the Basic Identity Verification solution and testing the various integration methods. To proceed to production access, you'll need to add your credit card on the billing page. (Don't worry you won't be charged unless you exceed 500 verifications each month.)

3. Set up your Production instance

Once you've inputted your credit card, email startups@withpersona.com with your full and how you'll use the basic identity verification solution. This will help expedite your business authentication and get you production access.

Security and privacy at our core

Security and privacy are paramount to a trusted relationship. That’s why Persona is certified to the highest industry standards and committed to protecting you and your customers' privacy.

What else can Persona do

Beyond basic identity verification, Persona offers a wide variety of solutions for verifying collecting, verifying, and enriching user data. For the Open PHinance Challenge, you'll only have access to the 500 free government ID with optional selfie verification, but feel free to ask us about other ways that Persona can help.

Government ID

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Extract and verify government IDs, such as passports and driver’s licenses, with configurable and automated heuristic checks across 200+ countries and territories.

Business documents

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Know the businesses you partner with by requesting and verifying certificates of incorporation, government-issued business licenses, or other similar documents.

Supplemental Documents

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Need proof of address or other supplemental documents not listed here? Request, extract, and verify the authenticity of other documents like utility bills, SSN cards, and more.

Biometric Verifications

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Automatically compare a selfie to the ID portrait with a 3 point composite and biometric liveness checks that you can customize.

SSN verification (eCBSV)

Government
Compare names, SSNs, and addresses against Social Security Administration records to verify more users (e.g. those with thin credit).

DMV verification (AAMVA)

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Validate information on US driver’s licenses and IDs against DMV records to detect fraudulent IDs.

Phone Carrier verification

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Verify the authenticity of inputted phone numbers by checking legal name and phone number against global telecommunications carrier databases.

Phone verification

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Verify the ownership of an inputted phone number with two-factor authentication via call or text.

Device signals

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Detect potential fraud by monitoring passive signals such as IP address, device fingerprint, and more.
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Persona's coverage spans across 200+ countries and territories, and is available in 20 different languages to support your business internationally.