Affinidi has launched a pilot to speed up cross-border hiring between Singapore and India by replacing manual background checks with verifiable credentials.
The pilot involves collaborations with Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and employment screening companies, including Avvanz, eeCheck and Risk Management Intelligence (RMI). Today, background checks typically take five to 15 days. This delay adds cost and increases fraud exposure, a mounting risk as Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four hiring profiles will be fraudulent.
Affinidi’s solution converts verified employment and education records into cryptographically signed credentials that candidates can store in a digital wallet. This creates a reusable professional “passport” that candidates can share across employers, cutting verification times to minutes while allowing individuals to retain full control of their data.
The solution is built on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Verifiable Credentials and Decentralised Identifiers standards. Its interoperable architecture enables near-instant, tamper-evident checks and lowers integration and operating costs for hiring workflows.
“The use of digital verifiable credentials has the ability to further engender trust and ensure that the best talent pools can be identified and tapped. This will also unlock new pathways towards the seamless flow of talent and skills across borders, which will power us towards the long-term objective of accelerating and modernising economies,” says Chek-Tchung Foo, executive director of Public Policy at GFTN.
Glenn Gore, CEO of Affinidi, adds: “We’re not just solving hiring inefficiencies, we’re creating the foundation for a trust-based digital economy. What starts with employment verification between India and Singapore demonstrates how the same can be applied to transform access to healthcare, financial services, education, and beyond.”
