IDnow group, a provider of identity proofing and digital identities, has appointed Mike Kiely as its sales director for financial services.
Based in IDnow’s Manchester office, Kiely brings with him decades of experience in data and biometrics, most recently heading up Identity and Biometric sales at GBG, and will drive the firm’s substantial growth ambitions in the financial sector in the UK.
Kiely’s appointment highlights the firm’s ongoing investment into the UK market, with ambitions to become a leader in the UK’s financial services industry, and a global leader in the sector. The company has offices in Germany, the United Kingdom and France and is backed by investors including Corsair Capital and Seventure Partners. Its portfolio of over 900 international clients, spans a wide range of industries, and includes leading international players such as Western Union, UBS, Commerzbank, Sixt and Munich Re, as well as digital champions like N26, Solarisbank, wefox and Tier Mobility.
Kiely said: “As a German business, IDnow has built a platform that meets some of the world’s strictest compliance and regulation requirements, while offering the broadest portfolio of identity proofing methods. As such, it is in a unique position to support businesses in their identity proofing needs who are looking to scale beyond their UK territory, and into geographies that are inherently difficult to penetrate such as France and Germany.”
Kiely’s appointment comes after IDnow reported a 95 per cent rise in orders for the first quarter of 2022.
IDnow group offers a broad identity proofing portfolio on the continent via a single platform, from automated to human-assisted, and from online to point-of-sale.
Benjamin Haas, senior sales director at IDnow, added: “Since we acquired ARIADNEXT and IdentityTM last year, we have been immersed in our growth plans and in bolstering our position as one of the strongest identity verification and document signing players in Europe.”
