Alchera Face ID and eKYC Identity Verification

Alchera is a South Korean vision AI company founded in June 2016 and listed on KOSDAQ in December 2020, with offices in Seoul, a US subsidiary and a Vietnamese subsidiary in Ho Chi Minh City. It applies face recognition, OCR and anomaly detection to identity verification, access control and fire detection.

Its financial solution lines up face verification with real-time anti-spoofing, matching of a live selfie against the ID card photo, ID authenticity checks with OCR and masking of sensitive fields, and non-face-to-face verification of foreign passports. Facial templates are stored in segregated form and reassembled only during authentication. The same engine powers internal controls such as FIDO2 login, facial access control and attendance. Users include Korean card issuers, banks, brokerages, airports and government ministries.

• Face ID: face verification with real-time anti-spoofing and selfie-to-ID matching.
• ID verification: detects forged or photocopied IDs and extracts fields with OCR.
• Passport verification: non-face-to-face identity checks for foreign nationals.
• Segregated biometrics: facial features stored in distributed form and recombined only at authentication.
• Internal control: FIDO2 and Windows Hello login, MFA, facial access control and attendance.
• eKYC and eKYB: remote onboarding of individuals and businesses.

Banks, consumer finance firms and e-wallets in Vietnam can verify customers remotely by matching selfies with citizen ID cards and blocking spoofing attempts. Securities companies can onboard foreign investors with passport verification. Enterprises can apply face-based login, access control and attendance across offices and factories.

The company states 99% accuracy with verification completed within 1 second. Real-time liveness checks block manipulated selfies and photocopied or forged ID cards during remote onboarding. Segregated storage of facial data reduces the risk of leakage from a single breach. One vendor covers customer eKYC as well as employee login, access control and attendance.

Regulators across Asia are tightening remote identity verification rules, and Vietnam now requires biometric authentication for many online banking transactions. Deepfakes and presentation attacks are raising demand for certified liveness detection, while banks, e-wallets and telecom operators look for eKYC that also extends to workforce access control.

Founded in June 2016 with strategic investment from SNOW Corp.; listed on KOSDAQ in December 2020. Subsidiaries ALCHERA Vietnam (established December 2018, ALCHERA VN Co. Ltd in Ho Chi Minh City) and ALCHERA X in the US (2020). Passed iBeta Level 2 presentation attack detection testing and received GS Certification Grade 1 for facial liveness detection in 2024. Launched eKYC in 2022.