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IDfy

IDfy runs identity verification, business verification, fraud detection and background verification for banks, non banking lenders, insurers, payments and wealth firms across India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, stating more than 70 million verifications a month. Its OnboardIQ product combines document reading, face matching, liveness and deepfake checks with direct lookups into national identity, tax, company and small enterprise registries, OneRisk adds device fingerprinting and velocity signals for fraud, and Privy supports Digital Personal Data Protection Act consent and governance. Newer AI agents assist onboarding, credit decisioning and privacy work.

Last VerifiedOctober 13, 2026
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Founded
2011
Headquarters
Mumbai, India
Website
www.idfy.com
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, fraud-and-transaction-risk
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 8 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
BB on AI CentralityThe models are the engine of a core capability, layered on a product that would still function without them as a rules or workflow system.
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Reading documents, matching faces and spotting manipulated media are model work, and a live Credit Underwriting Agent orchestrates sub agents over bureau, government and bank data to return a credit recommendation, with Auto-CAM spreading the financials, testing covenants and drafting the credit memo in two to four hours against three to four days by hand. Much of the platform is not model work, though: direct registry and bureau queries plus days of human investigation in background checks would remain without the models.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

A reconsideration route for a rejected applicant, case management and the threshold at which a human must review are not described. The Credit Underwriting Agent applies the lender's own credit policy and hands a recommendation with its evidence trail to a human reviewer, who steps in where a decision needs judgment, and every agent call is logged and replayable. Video customer identification needs a trained officer in a live session, background checks rely on human investigators over hours or days, and customers set thresholds through no code workflows.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
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False acceptance and false rejection rates, an evaluation method and model documentation are unpublished for document reading, face matching and liveness. What IDfy does publish is behavior: which checks return in seconds and which take days, and a reason attached to every OneRisk score.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
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The quotes, from Kirti Patil, chief technology officer at Kotak Mahindra, and leaders at Yubi, Hero Enterprise and Blackbuck, speak to accuracy and fraud prevention without a measured outcome. IDfy's own figures carry the weight instead: more than 70 million verifications a month, over 15 million frauds prevented and 500 active clients in seven countries.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

OneRisk's machine learning is trained on more than 400 million records, including criminal, court and fraud network data IDfy calls exclusive, and its fraud intelligence uses device fingerprinting and velocity signals across clients. The privacy policy sets no limit on that pooling and says nothing on training, so a bank cannot tell whether its own customers feed models that serve other clients. Deepfake and manipulated media detection are named capabilities.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Baldor Technologies Pvt. Ltd., the company behind IDfy, treats client data as processed on client instructions, but its privacy policy gives no retention period and does not address Aadhaar data. The stakes are high because national identity numbers, facial images, credit records and court histories make a wide personal data footprint under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification named in the vendor’s own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise.
Vendor Published

A trust center, an audit period and a scope statement are not linked, and the auditor goes unnamed. IDfy states ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 Type 2, has announced a completed Type 2 audit covering confidentiality and integrity, and quotes 99.9 percent uptime.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
BB on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is clearly stated and appropriate to the product, with part of the verification left to the buyer.
Vendor Published

Prescriptive local rules give the product concrete grounding: Reserve Bank of India know your customer directions, the video identification procedure and Aadhaar authentication limited to entities the Unique Identification Authority of India approves. IDfy does not state which approvals it holds itself, though Privy is sold for data protection compliance. Its video identification keeps audit trails built for the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the Reserve Bank of India and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
DD on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureNothing published on a product where the bias risk is concrete, such as credit decisioning or underwriting with no fair lending, disparate impact or adverse action disclosure.
Vendor Published

IDfy publishes nothing on the accuracy or false match rate of its face matching or liveness checks, both of which vary by skin tone, age and capture quality, and nothing on fair lending, disparate impact or adverse action for the live Credit Underwriting Agent that recommends on small business loans. Court record matching carries a bias surface of its own, since common names, transliteration between scripts and patchy record keeping make false matches structural.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

A false criminal record match can cost a person employment, credit and banking access at once, and IDfy publishes no accuracy guarantee or remediation commitment. Individuals can review, update and correct their data through a named grievance officer and data protection officer, which fixes what a future check reads, while a check already run stands.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Sources are named by category, from national identity authentication and tax registries to credit bureaus and court records, so the authorities behind a result are visible. Document reading, face matching and the AI agents have no named provider, and cloud and signing vendors appear only by category.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

IDfy names no core banking or lending platform partner. Its integration work goes into identity, tax and company registries, each with its own access rules, reached through API Central and no code workflows, and its onboarding product states go live in one day.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
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Payment system data must be stored domestically under Reserve Bank of India rules, and the Aadhaar framework constrains where authentication data may sit. Service providers operate both in and outside India, per the privacy policy, with no hosting region or transfer mechanism stated for Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern work.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

A self serve background verification platform sits beside the application programming interface (API) catalog, but no rates, tiers or billing unit are published. At tens of millions of checks a month, volume banding decides cost, and a buyer cannot model it from outside.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
Vendor Published

Non banking financial companies get their own treatment alongside banks, insurers and fintech lenders, a locally specific segment a generic platform would skip. Operations span India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, with no European or North American coverage.

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Commercial

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