ATB Ventures’ digital identity verification platform Oliu™ has become the first Canadian organisation to achieve official certification from the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), prompting this interview with Azim Esmail at ATB Ventures who talked us through its authentication capabilities and benefits as a platform with integrating existing systems.

The certification is granted by a recognisable coalition of private and public sector leaders that participates in delivering their digital trust framework to the wider industry at Identity Week America.

Our Editor posed the statutory requirements for any digital identity platform to transform users’ experiences by “Knowing Their Customer” amid a rise in deepfakes and other types of fraud.

Canada as a highly banked nation means the need for security is high across the majority of the population that has a bank account and believes it is important to have a secure digital identity online.

Whilst other certifications are available, we asked what does a lack of compliance between Canadian organisations with this market-standard certification indicate about changes needed for regulation in general.