LexisNexis® Risk Solutions (LNRS) enables businesses to verify and authenticate physical and digital identities in near real time, providing customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and analytics. This assists our customers in evaluating and predicting risk, while also helping to enhance operational efficiency.
A multi-layered, risk-assessment fraud defence strategy is the future of identity management and the best way to protect businesses and consumers alike. LNRS helps businesses to optimise the online experience by combining frictionless, market-leading risk-based authentication (RBA) with low-friction strong customer authentication (SCA) strategies to help ensure the person on the other end of the transaction isn’t a fraudster.
Verifying Physical Identity
By combining data derived from the leading UK credit bureaus (including Experian and Equifax) with our proprietary consumer data universe, we offer market-leading data coverage. Our patented data record linking technology, LexID®, offers a single, more comprehensive customer view, across the most established consumer datasets in the UK to verify customer identity and fulfil KYC requirements.
Verifying Digital Identity
The LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network® collects and processes global shared intelligence from millions of daily consumer interactions including logins, payments, and new account applications. Using this information, the ThreatMetrix solution creates a unique digital identity for each user by analysing the myriad connections between devices, locations, and anonymized personal information. It provides a 360-degree view of customers by merging offline and online data in near real time to establish true digital identities. It [can / helps to] detect synthetic and stolen identities as well as unusual behaviour such as location anomalies, new email addresses originating from the same device, or new shipping addresses
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions (is wholly owned by RELX Group, a leading publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 100 countries with approximately 33,000 employees worldwide. The shares of RELX PLC are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.
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Main office address
Global Reach
Dunleavy Drive
Cardiff
CF11 0SN
Key Products / Services / Sectors (USPs)
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions serves the top global banks, market leading insurance providers and other FTSE 100 organisations to provide solutions to assess risk and manage identity. With decades of experience in analysing and delivering data, we have developed industry-specific solutions to help our customers better understand their customers and optimise their businesses.
We use a proprietary statistical linking technology in combination with our own unique identifier, the LexID®, to resolve, match and manage information for 50 million UK consumer identities. This patented linking and clustering method is the machine behind many LexisNexis® Risk Solutions products that leverage authentication, verification and other identity management capabilities.
LexisNexis IDU® is one of the leading electronic identity verification systems in the UK. It enables businesses to confidently verify an individual’s identity, comply with AML guidelines, and ensure that potential customers encounter a seamless and unobtrusive verification process. IDU represents a quick and easy solution to confirm a client is who they say they are, while also flagging any potential risk. The LexisNexis IDU® Mobile App gives a secure way to verify consumers using their identity documents and facial biometrics. Customers are able to confidently confirm that the identity presented belongs to the individual claiming it.
Services
Supports eID
Yes
No
Area of focus
Consumers
Internal services (enterprise)
Identity provisioning (IdP)
As-a-Platform
API
As-a-Service
Wallet/SDK
Hub
On-board RPs
Offer translation of protocols
Handles federation
Integrate RPs/IDPs/Wallets
Can offer consent capture if required
Attribute brokerage
Can capture self-asserted
Can verify self-asserted
Can integrate with third parties (eg Open Banking)
Supports verified claims (VCs)
Verification services/support
Not supported
N/A
Yes – third party verifiers used (including Open Banking)
Yes – In-house verification service
Authentication
Password/username
Multiple factors (MFA)
Biometric
FIDO
Mobile device
Other
Data store functionality
Attribute storage
Attribute sharing
Configurable for specific sectors (e.g. health)
Use decentralised stores (eg Wallets or online)
Can offer consent capture/handling
Account management for users
Yes
No
On request
Account recovery
Self-service
Help desk
Key management required by user
Channel support
Omni-channel
Web
Mobile
Digital assistant
Wallet
Other
Protocol support
SAML 2.0
OIDC
Oauth
UMA
DID (decentralised identifiers)
Third party capability
External
Internal
Other
Other
Risk-based authentication
Anti-fraud support
Data minimisation support
Consent management
Variable registration (multi-user journey support)
Support for accessibility
Logging and audit
Billing system
User Journeys
Self-service
Offline options, incl. F2F
Upgrade paths to increase assurance levels over time
Creation of delegated accounts
Rules
To modify system behaviour
For risk-based authentication
To use events to drive transactions
To manage user journeys, including verification
To handle LOA upgrades/downgrades
API available
Yes
No
Wallet-based systems
Wallet available
SDK available
Decentralised
Handle payments
Handle identity document’s (eg drivers license)
Handle health information (eg vaccine certificates)
Other
Company insight
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions White Paper
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Resources
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