Green Coop Introduces 'LIQUID eKYC' Identity Verification for Online Membership Applications

The General Incorporated Association Green Coop Community (Headquarters: Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City; Representative Director: Yoko Hidaka; hereinafter 'Green Coop'), which consists of 16 consumer cooperatives primarily in western Japan, has introduced 'LIQUID eKYC', an online identity verification service provided by Liquid Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Keiki Hasegawa), a member of the ELEMENTS Group, for its web-based membership application process. This enables the streamlining of screening operations and reduces screening time. Additionally, when users photograph their identity verification documents, the system provides image processing technology-assisted photography support to prevent drop-offs during the procedure.

■ About the Identity Verification Service for Web Membership Applications

Green Coop has introduced an 'Identity Verification Service' for its web membership reception, allowing membership applications to be made anytime, 24 hours a day, using smartphones or personal computers. This introduction reduces the burden of document submission and in-person verification procedures that were previously required, realizing a system where identity verification and membership application can be completed entirely online. It eliminates the need to visit a store or receive a visit, allowing procedures to be completed easily from home.

This leads to a more accessible environment for many people with busy daily lives, including families raising children, dual-income households, and elderly individuals who have difficulty going out.

Green Coop will continue to work on improving convenience and enhancing services so that many people can easily use its safe and secure food and daily necessities.

Membership Application Site: https://www.greencoop.or.jp/otameshikohai/

■ About 'LIQUID eKYC'

This is a service that completes identity verification required for online contracts, account registration, account opening, etc., entirely online. It offers methods such as photographing identity verification documents like driver's licenses or My Number cards, or reading IC chips and comparing them with a self-portrait photo, as well as methods utilizing public personal authentication (JPKI / Smartphone JPKI). It can also handle age verification for student discounts. Through its proprietary AI technology, biometric authentication technology, and OCR technology, it achieves a low drop-off rate from the start to the completion of photography. The ELEMENTS Group has a cumulative total of approximately 150 million identity verifications and approximately 700 cumulative contracts.

Website: https://liquidinc.asia/liquid-ekyc/

Organization Overview

■ General Incorporated Association Green Coop Community

1-5-1 Hakata Ekimae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City

Representative Director: Yoko Hidaka

https://www.greencoop.or.jp/

In 2018, the 'General Incorporated Association Green Coop Community' was established together with the Green Coop Federation of Consumer Cooperatives, the Social Welfare Corporation Green Coop, labor unions, and 16 consumer cooperatives and various organizations from Kyushu (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Oita, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kagoshima), Kinki (Osaka, Hyogo, Shiga), Chugoku (Tottori, Okayama, Shimane, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi), and Fukushima. They have been active as consumer cooperatives rooted in their respective regions, sharing and uniting their resources as if they were one Green Coop. Starting from a mother's desire to 'provide safe and secure food for children,' they aim to enrich each region.

■ Liquid Inc.

Location: 35F, Nihonbashi Life Science Building, 3-8-3 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Representative: Representative Director Keiki Hasegawa

Business: Image analysis and big data analysis specializing in biometric information and behavioral biometrics (LIQUID eKYC, LIQUID Shield, LIQUID Auth, etc.)

https://liquidinc.asia

Liquid aims to realize a seamless society where all approximately 8 billion people in the world can use any service easily and safely in their natural state by utilizing biometric authentication and making authentication ambient. In line with the trend towards online identity verification in financial transaction confirmation (Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds), mobile phone contracts (Act on Prevention of Illicit Use of Mobile Phones), second-hand goods purchasing (Secondhand Articles Dealer Act), real estate transactions, and CtoC transactions, it provides a mechanism for cross-industry fraud detection across industries and implementing companies, pursuing both convenience and security.

■ ELEMENTS Inc.

Location: 35F, Nihonbashi Life Science Building, 3-8-3 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Representative: Representative Director and President Keiki Hasegawa

https://elementsinc.jp/

Business: Development and provision of personal authentication solutions utilizing biometric authentication, image analysis, and machine learning technology; personal optimization solutions for clothing, food, and housing; and cloud services for managing personal information.