At an Open Identity Exchange OIX UK meeting in London this week, a representative from the MIDAS Alliance (Mobile IDentity Authentication Standard) announced that they would be working with the U.K. Government to help develop a pilot that combines payments applications with their identity assurance programme (VerifAs noted in their initial standards' scoping, the MIDAS Alliance believes that in order to create a pilot that will be of use in the Governments Verify programme it is essential to have payments as part of the solution. This is particularly relevant within the interplay between identity assurance (Verify) and SecuRePay's strong authentication requirements (PSD2)."As this is a significant step in the development of the MIDAS Alliance going forward it becomes even more important to get as many different organisations from all sectors to get together at our next public meeting to develop both an outline for the pilot as well as developing the scope for the wider MIDAS Alliance standardy)," the alliance wrote in a statement..
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