Ipsidy and New Image to offer biometric identity authentication solutions for Latin America

Ipsidy Inc (OTCQX:IDTY), a provider of biometric identification and electronic transaction processing services, said Monday that it had forged a pact with New Image Building Services Corp to offer Ipsidy’s suite of biometric identity and authentication solutions to Latin American countries.

The joint offering will initially include Ipsidy’s Access, a cost-effective mobile biometric tracking system and Verified, which simplifies caller identification.

“We are excited to partner with Ipsidy to resell the company’s suite of biometric identity solutions and thereby become an early leader in the Latin American market to offer this technology,” said John Ezzo, CEO of New Image Building Services.

Detroit-based New Image has specialized for over three decades in designing, planning, and managing all the services needed to operate a commercial facility.

“We are excited to partner with Ipsidy to resell the company’s suite of biometric identity solutions and thereby become an early leader in the Latin American market to offer this technology,” said New Image Building Services CEO John Ezzo. “Identity, physical-access security and digital security are major issues for our clients and the industries that we serve. Our clients seek innovative solutions that offer enhanced security against fraud and unauthorized physical access. Ipsidy’s solutions will provide our clients with the highest level of identity, transaction and access authentication.”

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Both the Ipsidy products — Access and Verified — are cost-effective and easy to use. Using nothing more than tablets, Bluetooth and mobile phones, Ipsidy’s Access protects the perimeters of buildings, campuses and even borders to create safer environments by monitoring the enrolled identities of people moving in and around a defined area.

Managers at companies, hospitals and warehouses, as well as residential and commercial buildings, for example, can use this new technology to confirm the biometric identification of enrolled participants upon their arrival and exit from buildings.

Similarly, Verified leverages Ipsidy’s identity portal to help companies seamlessly authenticate a user’s identity. A business agent using Verified, can simply login to the Ipsidy portal to trigger an authentication request. They then take a ‘selfie’ through their Ipsidy mobile app and it converts the selfie into a biometric facial template that is matched against a reference template. With increasing data breaches, and identity theft, biometric identification is gaining popularity for its ability to identify and authenticate individuals quickly and accurately.

“Ipsidy is pleased to partner with New Image to resell our services in the Latin American market. Together we will offer solutions that provide the highest level of security, control and certainty for everyday transactions and physical access control,” said Ipsidy CEO Philip Beck.

Based in Long Beach, New York, Ipsidy has developed secure biometric identity management and electronic transaction solutions for government and public-sector companies in the US, South Africa and internationally.

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