We’re thrilled to announce that IDV Pacific has been selected as a finalist in the Excellence in RegTech category at the 2026 Finnies, FinTech Australia’s flagship awards programme — now in its tenth year, with the gala to be held at ILUMINA in Sydney on 18 June 2026.

This year’s Finnies drew more than 300 entries across 22 categories, judged in two rounds by 90+ independent experts from across the Australian fintech ecosystem. Being shortlisted in Excellence in RegTech places IDV Pacific among a strong group of companies tackling some of the hardest problems in compliance, identity, and financial crime prevention.

RegTech in Australia has matured rapidly. AML/KYC obligations are tightening, fraud vectors are evolving faster than legacy tools can adapt, and the cost of getting onboarding wrong — to customers, to regulators, and to brand trust — has never been higher. Organisations need verification technology that is fast, accurate, sovereign, and built for the Australian regulatory context, not retrofitted from offshore platforms.

That is the gap IDV Pacific has been closing since we started.

Our platform is anchored on three principles we don’t compromise on:

Australian-built, Australian-hosted. Data sovereignty isn’t a marketing line — it’s an architectural commitment. Identity data captured through our platform stays in Australia, processed on infrastructure we control.

No PII storage. FoxID, our proprietary OCR and identity extraction engine, processes documents in real time without retaining personally identifiable information. Privacy by design, not by policy.

Built in-house, top to bottom. FoxID is entirely our own technology. No reliance on offshore OCR licensors, no opaque third-party AI services in the verification pipeline. That gives us full control over accuracy, latency, security, and the speed at which we can support new document types — days, not the nine-to-twelve-month template cycles that plague legacy providers.

FoxID has evolved through five generations since 2020. The current platform delivers 99%+ accuracy on Australian driver licences and handles the conditions real-world capture actually produces: blur, glare, shadows, reflections, indirect angles, damaged edges, complex backgrounds, and the clear-window quirks of Victorian and Tasmanian licences. No manual cropping. No orientation hints. No template library to maintain.

It’s template-free, AI-driven, and engineered specifically for the documents Australian organisations actually see every day — backed by our position as an authorised IDSP for the Australian Government’s IDMatch Document Verification Service (DVS) and a gateway provider for the Department of Home Affairs’ VEVO.

That’s the foundation our customers build their onboarding, compliance, and fraud controls on. And it’s the foundation this Finnies nomination recognises.

This shortlist belongs to the IDV Pacific team — product, engineering, delivery, support, compliance, and operations. Every line of code, every customer integration, every certification cycle, and every late-night incident response is part of why we’re here.

We’re equally grateful to our customers, channel partners, technology partners — including Thales DIS, iProov, GBG/Acuant, and AWS — and the wider Australian RegTech community. The work is collective, and the wins are too.

Congratulations to every finalist across the 2026 Finnies. We’re looking forward to celebrating the sector together on 18 June.

IDV Pacific is an Australian identity verification company providing AI-powered document and biometric verification for regulated industries. We are a Gold Certified Value-Added Reseller for Thales document readers and biometric scanners, a gateway provider for the Department of Home Affairs’ VEVO, and an authorised IDSP for the Australian Government’s IDMatch DVS. Our proprietary FoxID OCR platform and iCore integration layer power identity verification for financial services, gaming, government, and enterprise customers across Australia.

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