IDfy vs Signzy (2026)
An Indian bank choosing between these two is deciding whether verification should come inside a wider onboarding and risk suite or as a catalog of checks that also reaches the United States and the Gulf. IDfy builds around the Indian journey. OnboardIQ runs one flow across branch, assisted and digital channels, OneRisk scores people, businesses and assets on more than 500 signals with a reason attached to every score, and a live credit underwriting agent drafts the case for a lender's credit team. IDfy states more than 70 million verifications a month. Signzy sells more than 340 application programming interfaces (APIs) across India, the United States and the Middle East, from video identification to Secretary of State business checks, and its agentic platform connects a bank's core system to India's central know your customer registry. Both run face matching and liveness on their own models. Signzy quotes 95 percent accuracy for its video checks without a method, and neither publishes a false match rate, a demographic breakdown or a route for a person the face check refuses. Those three are the gaps to close in the contract.
- Branch staff, field agents and digital channels all open accounts. OnboardIQ runs one onboarding flow across branch, assisted and digital journeys and gives relationship managers risk and affluence signals during the conversation.
- The credit team wants an agent that prepares the file. IDfy's credit underwriting agent is live, and its Auto-CAM reads a small business file, spreads the financials and tests the covenant into a memo with its evidence trail.
- Fraud screening has to include criminal and court records. OneRisk draws on CrimeCheck and court record data and returns a reason with every risk score it produces.
- Compliance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act belongs in the same purchase. Privy manages consent, data discovery and monitoring and keeps every agent decision replayable for audit.
- The institution onboards customers in the United States or the Gulf as well as India. Signzy sells country catalogs for both, from employer identification number and Secretary of State checks to trade license verification.
- The bank is moving to the 2.0 rules of India's central know your customer registry. Signzy's agentic platform connects the core banking system to the registry, fixes data errors and masks Aadhaar numbers before submission.
- Mule accounts are the main fraud worry. Signzy's Trust Scores weigh more than 200 device, transaction and identity signals to flag accounts likely to move illicit funds.
- Onboarding ends in a signed agreement. Signzy adds transaction monitoring and contract management with electronic signatures to the same platform as its verification checks.
This comparison is published by AI FinTech Index, an independent research platform that publishes independent ratings of AI vendors for financial services. IDfy and Signzy are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI FinTech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| IDfy | Signzy | |
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| Primary category | AML, KYC & Financial Crime | AML, KYC & Financial Crime |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Website | www.idfy.com | www.signzy.com |
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The short version of each
IDfy
IDfy sells identity, business and background verification with fraud and privacy tools to banks, non banking lenders, insurers, payments and wealth firms. It states more than 70 million verifications a month for over 500 active clients in seven countries. OnboardIQ unifies branch, assisted and digital onboarding, OneRisk scores risk on more than 500 signals with machine learning trained on over 400 million records, and Privy manages consent under India's data protection law. Agents for credit underwriting, merchant and property due diligence and privacy compliance run on a separate AI platform.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
Signzy
Signzy sells digital onboarding, identity verification and compliance automation through more than 340 APIs and a no code journey builder, with offices in New York, Illinois, Dubai, Bengaluru and Mumbai. More than 500 companies use it, among them HSBC, Citi, ICICI Bank, Stripe and Mastercard. Its video identification product handles queuing, scheduling and live location capture, and Trust Scores target mule accounts. In the AI FinTech Index, Signzy reaches more markets than IDfy, with dedicated catalogs for the United States and the Middle East beside India.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
Common questions
Which one suits a bank that also onboards customers in the United States?
Signzy. It screens businesses against registries in more than 150 countries and all 50 US states and checks employer identification numbers against official records, with a separate catalog for the Middle East. IDfy calls itself an Asian platform, states seven countries and builds its products around Indian identifiers such as Aadhaar and permanent account numbers. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What happens to a customer the face check rejects?
IDfy's video identification can run with a relationship manager on the call, with scheduling, queuing and retry flows when a capture fails. Signzy's video product lets agents capture again and flags suspicious calls. Neither explains how a person refused by the automated face match or liveness check learns why or asks for a review, a gap that weighs more because neither publishes how those checks perform across skin tone, age or gender. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which one goes further into lending decisions?
IDfy. Its credit underwriting agent is live, Auto-CAM turns a small business file into a decision ready memo, and OneRisk's Transaction Intelligence Platform reads transactions for income, obligations and repayment capacity. Signzy's credit tools are data services: credit reports, cash flow analysis and bank statement evaluation that feed a risk profile the lender builds and judges. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Do IDfy's OneRisk and Signzy's video models learn from one bank's customers to serve another?
Both say their models learn from large volumes of real records. IDfy's OneRisk model is trained on more than 400 million records, including criminal, court and fraud network data it calls exclusive, and Signzy says its video models were trained on diverse facial variations and ID formats. Neither says whether one bank's customers end up in a model another bank uses, or whether a bank can opt out, which is the question for procurement. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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IDfy is the brand of Baldor Technologies Pvt Ltd, and Signzy's operating company is Signzy Technologies Private Limited. IDfy's verification, client and record counts and Signzy's 95 percent accuracy figure are the vendors' own, published without a method or test population.