Identity verification company GBG has partnered with Realeyes to add Realeyes’ face credentials to its GBG Go platform, letting organizations recheck the person behind an account at several points after sign-up. The first joint capabilities are available through GBG Go from October 2026.
The partnership launches with two uses. The first targets promotion abuse: face uniqueness checks at registration flag duplicate sign-ups, aiming to stop people from opening several accounts to collect bonuses before a promotion pays out. The second is risk-triggered reverification, in which a face check is used for step-up authentication at moments such as a device change, an unusual withdrawal or an account recovery request to confirm that the current account holder is the person who opened the account.
Realeyes’ check uses a three-second selfie to confirm that the user is a real, unique person. Instead of keeping an image, the system returns a face credential that can be reused across services and devices. Realeyes says its technology handles more than 30 billion verifications a month. Its VerifEye Reverify product compares later checks against the person verified at onboarding, and Realeyes describes the credential as anchored to W3C Verifiable Credentials, ISO mobile driver’s license and EU Digital Identity Wallet standards.
GBG Go is GBG’s identity and fraud prevention platform, to which the company added a module for accepting digital IDs from around the world last year. The Realeyes capabilities will be available to GBG customers in more than 70 countries.
The companies plan to extend the same face credential to account recovery, agentic identity, age assurance and continuous verification for gig-economy platforms.
Micah Willbrand, GBG’s chief product officer, said trust in an account begins to decay from the moment it is created. He said embedding Realeyes’ credentials in GBG Go is meant to turn verification from a one-time event into an ongoing signal, without adding friction or requiring biometric images to be stored.
Mihkel Jäätma, CEO and co-founder of Realeyes, said demand has shifted from verifying an identity once to verifying a person continuously, since every login, payout or recovery is a point at which trust can break. He said the partnership puts the technology in the hands of thousands of fraud teams.
Sources: The Paypers, Realeyes
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
