SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2026--
Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation, and data-driven insights, today announced that it has successfully completed the Independent eKYC Breakthrough Assessment required by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) with zero findings.
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BNM has stringent requirements for eKYC vendors across three core pillars:
Jumio worked with independent auditor LGMS, a leading cybersecurity and assessment firm in Malaysia with extensive experience conducting the BNM assessment. The final report declares Jumio’s eKYC solution passed 100% of the criteria with zero findings.
Since establishing a presence in Asia Pacific in 2018, Jumio has helped organisations across the region meet stringent identity verification and compliance standards. This latest achievement reflects Jumio’s experience supporting regulated banks and fintechs throughout Asia Pacific and globally.
“Passing the BNM independent assessment with zero findings is a major milestone and a strong validation of our identity verification, facial recognition, and liveness capabilities,” said Ee Khoon Oon, Jumio VP and managing director, APAC. “Banks and fintechs in Malaysia who choose Jumio as their eKYC solution can onboard customers faster, meet or exceed AML expectations, and operate confidently under Malaysia’s evolving digital ID framework.”
To learn more about Jumio’s security certifications and support for regulatory compliance, visit jumio.com.
About Jumio
Jumio helps organizations to know and trust their customers online. From account opening to ongoing monitoring, the Jumio Platform provides AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation and data-driven insights to accurately establish, maintain and reassert trust.
Leveraging powerful automated technology including biometric screening, AI/machine learning, liveness detection and no-code orchestration with hundreds of data sources, Jumio helps to fight fraud and financial crime, onboard customers faster and meet regulatory compliance including KYC and AML. Jumio has processed more than 1 billion transactions spanning over 200 countries and territories from real-time web and mobile transactions.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Jumio operates globally with offices and representation in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and has been the recipient of numerous awards for innovation. Jumio is backed by Centana Growth Partners, Great Hill Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners.
For more information, please visit www.jumio.com.
Jumio Completes Malaysian eKYC Assessment with Zero Findings
HONOLULU (AP) — Crews on Tuesday began evaluating damage from a surprise downpour that sent floodwaters raging through a neighborhood near downtown Honolulu — the latest bout in a series of storms and flooding that have pummeled the state over the past two weeks.
Residents along Oahu's North Shore, famous for its big wave surfing, were cleaning up from the worst flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades when a storm Monday unleashed several inches of rain on the southern part of the island. Reddish-brown torrents gushed along roads in the Manoa Valley, a few miles east of downtown Honolulu, sweeping away parked cars and swamping much of the neighborhood.
“I was shocked to see how much flash flooding there was in my area,” said resident Andrew Phomsouvanh, who recorded video of streets transformed into a confluence of rapids. “The water just keeps coming.”
Maile Mills knew there was nothing she could do to save her Honda Civic, which she had parked on the street in front of her Manoa office building, when she saw the water reach the car's door handles. The flood pushed the vehicle onto the curb. The car was totaled, and silt and muddy water covered parts of the interior and the engine compartment.
“It looked like rubber ducks in a pond," Mills said. "All the cars started to float.”
The ferocity of Monday's downpour even took National Weather Service meteorologists aback. They knew that lingering instability from a powerful winter storm system called a “Kona low” could yield more rain, but their models aren't good at predicting how much moisture can remain in such systems, said forecaster Cole Evans.
“When you think it's over it's not quite over,” he said Tuesday.
The downpour, which dumped 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) of rain per hour, was highly localized: One rain gauge in the upper part of the valley recorded 6 inches (15 centimeters), while the airport a few miles away got just one-hundredth of an inch (less than a millimeter).
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi called it a “classic rain bomb,” and he said that earlier in the day, the skies were sunny.
“We had no warning,” he said Tuesday as he toured the damage.
The Kona low was moving off to the east, Evans said, and it should not pose further risk of bursts like Monday's burst. Flood watches were in effect for parts of Maui and the Big Island.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries, but authorities said hundreds of homes on Oahu's North Shore had been damaged by last week's flooding, which came as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier.
More than 230 people had to be rescued. The water pushed houses off their foundations, floated cars out of parking spots and left walls, floor and counters covered with thick, reddish volcanic mud.
Evacuation orders covered 5,500 people north of Honolulu, and some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.
Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations.
Even before Monday, Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the state’s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.
Green's office said Tuesday he had submitted a major disaster declaration request to the Trump administration.
Molly Pierce, a spokesperson for the Oahu Emergency Management Agency, said that in addition to volunteers and public workers who have been cleaning up, a contract company had arrived to begin collecting, sorting and removing large piles of debris.
She called the storm system “extremely unusual” but that officials were cautiously optimistic Tuesday that the rains are finally ending.
“Most of us have not seen something that just keeps going like this,” Pierce said. “We feel like we keep getting punched down. But we'll keep getting back up.”
The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused global warming, experts say.
Johnson reported from Seattle. Associated Press writer Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska, and Gabriela Aoun Angueira in San Diego contributed to this report.
Maile Mills looks under the hood of her car Tuesday, March 24, 2026, after it was damaged by flood waters in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
Volunteers load debris and damaged household items onto a truck during cleanup efforts following flooding, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Waialua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)
Volunteers load debris and damaged household items onto a truck during cleanup efforts following flooding, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Waialua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)
Volunteers sort donated supplies for distribution at Haleiwa Distillery following recent flooding, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Waialua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)
Volunteers shovel mud and debris from a flooded residential neighborhood, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Waialua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)
Excavators place debris onto trucks at a roundabout turned debris triage point by residents after the flood in Waialua, Hawaii Monday, March 23, 2026. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
