idWall Series C (IFC-44898)

Countries
  • Brazil
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Jan 8, 2021
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
IDWALL TECNOLOGIA LTDA
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Industry and Trade
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
Not Disclosed
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ IFC website

Updated in EWS Dec 10, 2020

Disclosed by Bank Dec 4, 2020


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Project Description
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idwall (“the Company”) is a Brazilian based fraud prevention and identity verification software business. The Company offers onboarding technology that streamlines the KYC / AML process leading to efficiency gains and faster customer conversion. idwall’s solutions are applicable across industries and today customers include both large Brazilian enterprises and SMBs. In addition, the Company offers MeuID, a digital identity service for consumers to better monitor their identity or for businesses to continuously verify stakeholders.

People Affected By This Project
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1. Improved access to digital services for individuals, resulting in digital inclusion of the underserved: Access to digital services in Brazil is fairly high compared to other emerging markets and the share of adults using mobile / e-payment is above regional averages, yet slightly below income group averages. Similarly, the share of the population with proof of identity mirrors other emerging markets. Still, for the poorest, access to digital services remains less than half the national average, reflecting lower levels of trust. The project contemplates improved access to digital services by scaling up the digital ID product, which may enable users to gain affordable, secure access to online services thereby enabling their digital inclusion.

2. Enhanced productivity growth and cost savings for businesses through digital ID solutions: Despite a relatively high usage of ICT in B2B transactions, businesses incur high cost due to prevalence of corruption and fraud in Brazil.

3. Enhanced productivity growth and cost savings for businesses: idwall's products enable more efficient and secure interactions with customers. Automated processes lead to efficiency gains, cost savings, and
faster conversion of customers, which directly impacts profits.

4. Integration of the Brazilian economy through increased digitalization: While Brazil's economy is fairly integrated with adequate digitalization of transactions, few scalable digital ID solutions are available resulting in economic frictions and limiting the size of the digital economy.

5. Foster economic integration through the proliferation of private sector led digital ID platforms: The Company is introducing an innovative model that enables scale up of a digital ID. Successful expansion by the Company will demonstrate the viability of this model to competitors and potentially result in their replication.

Investment Description
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Private Actor 1 Private Actor 1 Role Private Actor 1 Sector Relation Private Actor 2 Private Actor 2 Role Private Actor 2 Sector
- - - - IDWALL TECNOLOGIA LTDA Client Industry and Trade

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