Socure & Checkr Trust Unite to Forge New Standard in Digital Trust

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – March 26, 2026 – In a significant move to consolidate the fragmented landscape of digital safety, identity intelligence leader Socure and risk intelligence provider Checkr Trust have announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration integrates their technologies to create a unified platform for businesses to conduct both identity verification and criminal background checks, aiming to provide a comprehensive, real-time view of an individual's risk profile.

This alliance embeds Checkr Trust’s extensive criminal background screening capabilities directly into Socure's RiskOS® orchestration platform. Simultaneously, Checkr Trust will leverage Socure’s acclaimed identity, document, and biometric verification technologies within its own workflows. The result is a single, streamlined solution designed to help organizations identify and thwart bad actors earlier in the user journey, accelerate onboarding for legitimate customers, and enhance overall platform safety.

The Push Toward Unified Risk Management

The partnership arrives as businesses increasingly seek to move beyond a patchwork of disparate security tools. For years, risk and compliance teams have juggled separate vendors for identity verification, fraud detection, and background screening, a process often fraught with inefficiencies, data silos, and potential security gaps. This integration between two established market leaders signals a significant shift toward a more holistic and efficient approach.

The competitive landscape is crowded with specialized providers. The identity verification space includes major players like Entrust, Trulioo, and Jumio, while the background check market is served by companies such as HireRight and Sterling. While some platforms have attempted to bundle services, the deep, reciprocal integration between Socure and Checkr Trust—both commanding billion-dollar valuations and extensive customer bases—sets a new benchmark. Socure, valued at $4.5 billion after its 2021 Series E funding, and Checkr, valued at $4.6 billion, bring formidable scale to this joint offering.

By combining these critical functions, the partnership enables organizations to create a cohesive risk assessment from a single point of entry. This unified view is designed to eliminate the blind spots that can occur when data is passed between separate systems, allowing for faster, more accurate decision-making without compromising security or user experience.

"This is a strategic partnership between two market leaders," said Johnny Ayers, Founder & CEO of Socure, in a statement. "Checkr Trust chose Socure to power identity verification for their marketplace customers, and we're embedding their criminal intelligence directly into RiskOS. That's what real partnership looks like in identity and AI trust infrastructure: both sides get stronger enabling us to better serve our respective partners.”

Under the Hood: AI and Data Powering the Alliance

At the core of this partnership is the fusion of two powerful, AI-driven data engines. Socure has built its reputation on a sophisticated AI and machine learning platform that delivers industry-leading accuracy in identity verification. Its proprietary "triangulated data approach" analyzes and correlates thousands of data points from a vast network of over 400 curated sources, including online, offline, and device intelligence. This is all fed by its Risk Insights Network, which draws on consortium feedback from its 3,000+ customers and contains over 40 billion known outcomes.

The results are striking. Socure's technology can achieve auto-approval rates of up to 98% for mainstream populations and 94% for harder-to-verify groups like Gen Z, drastically reducing the need for manual reviews to less than 5%. Its fraud models have been shown to capture over 90% of identity fraud within the riskiest 3% of users, all while delivering decisions in under 150 milliseconds.

This high-fidelity identity intelligence is now being combined with Checkr Trust’s extensive data network, which aggregates risk data from over 2,400 sources, including criminal court records, sex-offender registries, and active watchlists. The integration allows Socure’s RiskOS platform to instantly surface potential criminal risk signals alongside identity fraud signals, creating a multi-dimensional risk profile in real time.

“We selected Socure as our identity verification partner because they demonstrated the best accuracy and recall in our extensive testing, alongside easy-to-integrate APIs and a clean user experience,” noted Michele Casertano, Vice President of Checkr Trust. “By bringing our criminal data network into RiskOS, our joint customers gain the most complete, unified view of risk, all through one powerful platform.”

Securing High-Stakes Digital Interactions

The practical implications of this unified solution are most profound in high-growth, high-risk sectors. The gig economy, online marketplaces, and fintech platforms—all of which rely on establishing trust between strangers—stand to benefit significantly. Companies like Uber and Instacart, already customers of Checkr, depend on robust screening to ensure the safety of their users. This partnership enhances that safety net by adding a powerful layer of upfront identity verification to prevent bad actors from even entering the system.

The ability to verify a user from "day zero" is a cornerstone of the partnership's value proposition. By confirming an individual's legitimacy before any transaction or interaction takes place, platforms can proactively mitigate risks ranging from payment fraud and account takeovers to physical harm. For a fintech company onboarding a new customer for a loan, or a marketplace vetting a new seller, this integrated check provides a level of assurance that was previously more difficult and time-consuming to achieve. This proactive stance not only protects the business and its legitimate users but also helps build the foundational trust necessary for digital ecosystems to thrive.

Navigating a Complex Regulatory and Ethical Landscape

Combining sensitive identity data with criminal history records places a heavy burden on compliance and ethical responsibility. The partnership operates within a complex web of regulations, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which governs the use of background checks for employment, and data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA. The integrated platform is designed with these obligations in mind, offering configurable policies and complete audit trails to help businesses maintain compliance.

Beyond legal requirements, the use of AI in screening raises important ethical questions about fairness and bias. AI models trained on historical data can inadvertently perpetuate societal biases if not carefully managed. Socure has stated that it actively works to mitigate such biases in its models through equitable data acquisition and feature selection. Furthermore, both companies operate in a domain where data accuracy is paramount; an error in either an identity or criminal record check can have profound consequences for an individual.

The move towards a more powerful, integrated risk assessment platform underscores the growing need for transparency and accountability in how these technologies are deployed. As businesses adopt these tools to create safer digital environments, they must also ensure that the processes are fair, the data is accurate, and individuals have clear avenues for recourse.

The integration is now live and available to all Socure RiskOS customers, who can activate Checkr Trust’s National Criminal screening directly within the platform. In parallel, Checkr Trust customers now have access to Socure's identity and document verification solutions, strengthening their own onboarding workflows and demonstrating the reciprocal nature of this significant industry alliance.