IDnow, Europe’s leading identity verification platform, and Keyless, a pioneer in privacy-preserving biometric authentication, have formed a strategic partnership to deliver end-to-end security across the digital identity lifecycle. The collaboration enables organisations to enrol users via IDnow’s verification and seamlessly authenticate them with Keyless’s biometric multi-factor system—matching live biometric checks to the original enrolment data for “Continuous Trust.”
This integrated solution addresses modern threats such as deepfakes and AI-driven fraud by ensuring that high-risk account actions—like personal-data changes or account recovery—trigger a biometric re-authentication against the initial IDnow capture. Keyless performs device-and-face checks in under 300 milliseconds, using a cryptographic process that converts biometric inputs into non-PII formats, thereby protecting user privacy without storing raw biometric data.
“Trust is no longer a one-time checkpoint but a continuous process,” said Andreas Bodczek, CEO of IDnow. “Our partnership with Keyless enhances our ability to fight emerging fraud typologies amid a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, ensuring that digital identities remain secure and trustworthy throughout their lifecycle.”
“One of the biggest questions we get is whether users need to enrol twice—with the IDV and with Keyless,” said Fabian Eberle, COO and Co-founder of Keyless. “Until recently, the answer was yes. But what’s pivotal about the partnership with IDnow is that we can silently enrol users into Keyless during the IDnow verification flow. It’s a game changer for reducing friction.”
The joint offering is well suited to regulated industries—banking, fintech, and healthcare—where compliance and user experience are critical. By combining IDnow’s flexible verification and e-signature tools with Keyless’s rapid, privacy-first authentication, organisations gain a scalable, future-proof trust framework that adapts to new threats, behaviours, and regulatory requirements.
