IdentityMind, Digital Identities You Can Trust, announced today that MO Tecnologías, the successful microloans FinTech in Latin America, has selected their Digital Identity Platform to automate secure onboarding of consumers in Mexico.Onboarding users in Mexico for financial applications requires a combination of services that can guarantee that the individuals are who they say they are, and meet the requirements imposed by loan funding organizations. The IdentityMind platform provides these services with integrated rulesets and analytics to reduce the risk for account origination fraud and account takeover (ATO); and that directly address the major identity-based attack vectors in loan origination: 1) identity theft, 2) first-party fraud, and 3) synthetic identities.Identity theft in Mexico increased sharply in 2016. "Mexico's financial services customer protection agency, Condusef, recorded a 33.6% jump in claims of identity theft and fraud [that year.]""Financial inclusion is really necessary to boost a country's economy," said Paolo Fidanza, CEO of MO Tecnologías. "At MO, we offer microloans in different countries in Latin America. We are aware of the challenges of identity proofing in Latin America, and that is why we have decided to partner with IdentityMind. The IdentityMind digital identities platform provides us with an all-in-one

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