ID3® technology in the Legal Sector

GB Group is in partnership with various case management providers to provide the legal sector with electronic identity verification (eIDV) solutions. For over three years now solicitors have been required to verify their clients’ identity in order to be compliant with the UK Money Laundering Regulations. Solicitors have always had an obligation to check client identities but only recently, since 2005, have thet started to investigate the possibility of using eIDV.

Paper-based identity checks can be a very time consuming, expensive and cumbersome process. GB’s electronic identity verification solutions URU™ and ID3® Check offer full online identity verification for more than 800 million citizens across most of W Europe, North America and Australia.
 
GB’s client base consists of some of the UK's largest businesses, including O2, Lloyds TSB and myriad gaming companies such as Betfair and PartyGaming. Our clients tell us that we have the most robust and comprehensive service on the market. Most importantly, we help them to offer THEIR end-customers a better overall experience by streamlining the whole identity verification process.

We believe strongly that GB’s ID3 technology could help you

• process client  information faster, by integrating identity checking within the whole case management process
• reduce the cost of compliance by as much as 70% by replacing costly and resource-intensive manual processes with an electronic ID check that can be carried out in less than one second
• increase confidence that your customers really are who they say they are by using basic details of  forename, surname and address information, applications of ID3 technology can verify more new customer accounts, faster, than other IDV systems
• maintain an online audit trail that can be accessed at any point during the lifetime of your contract  with the client to ensure full compliance with the UK Money Laundering Regulations

Please click here to read more about how GB’s ID3 technology could help you to comply with regulations designed to combat money laundering and other financial crime. 

The Law Society now actively recommends the use of electronic ID verification to support the recent 2007 JMLSG guidelines. To find out how GB’s ID3 application, URU and ID3 Check support these new recommendations please click here. To have a look at the Law Society's published practice notes on how to comply with the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Terrorism Act 2000 and Money Laundering Regulations 2007 please click here.

For further information about GB's case management providers please contact id3team@gb.co.uk.