Facephi cuts iGaming commission fraud 80% for OxiaCore in Peru
Facephi, the Spain-headquartered digital identity and fraud-prevention vendor, has published a one-year case study showing its multi-biometric platform reduced commission payment fraud by 80% on The OxiaCore Project's Peruvian iGaming platform, GanaExpress.bet. The deployment, which has been running since mid-2025, now handles identity verification for more than 10,000 registered agents across five platforms and is on track to process over one million authentication transactions by the end of 2026.
OxiaCore, operating in Peru through its entity Compañía Peruana de Entretenimiento en Línea (CPEL), uses the Facephi layer as a central component of its B2B software offering. The fraud-prevention stack covers player onboarding, withdrawal verification, agent credentialling and protection against injection attacks. It also cross-checks user data against government databases as well as gambling exclusion and self-exclusion registries.
Regulatory context
The deployment was accelerated by Peruvian regulation introduced at the end of 2024. Supreme Decrees No. 014-2024-IN and No. 016-2024-JUS introduced a requirement for the unique identification of every online gambling user, creating an immediate compliance obligation for operators in the market. Facephi positions its approach as compliance-by-design, meaning the identity verification layer satisfies the regulatory mandate and acts as a fraud control simultaneously, rather than treating them as separate workstreams.
The company says its technology can complete a player identity verification in under ten seconds at the two highest-risk moments in a user lifecycle: initial registration and fund withdrawals. Facephi cites endorsement from NIST and claims a presence in more than 30 countries, though the release does not detail which NIST evaluation programme applies or at what assurance level.
Daniel García, CTO of The OxiaCore Project, said the fraud prevention system had eliminated the multi-account abuse that previously affected the platform's economics. "Multi-account fraud is no longer impacting our numbers," he said.
Market landscape and expansion
Latin America's online gambling sector is in a regulatory growth phase. Peru formalised its online gaming framework in 2024; Ecuador and Colombia already operate regulated markets. OxiaCore is now using its compliance track record in Peru as a market-entry credential for those two neighbouring jurisdictions, where Facephi's technology is intended to travel with it.
The iGaming identity-verification market is served by a number of established vendors including Jumio, Onfido (now part of Entrust) and Veriff, alongside newer entrants with biometric-first architectures. Competition centres on verification speed, false-positive rates, liveness-detection robustness and the ability to integrate with local government identity databases, a factor that carries particular weight in Latin America where document standards and database accessibility vary significantly by country.
Facephi's reported 80% reduction in commission fraud is a meaningful commercial claim, but the release does not provide an independent audit, a baseline fraud-rate figure in absolute terms, or detail on how commission fraud is defined and measured. Buyers evaluating the case study should request underlying methodology.
The OxiaCore partnership represents one of Facephi's more fully detailed public deployments in the gaming vertical and supports the vendor's stated growth strategy in the Latin American regulated-gambling sector. Whether the model translates to the larger, more competitive Colombian and Ecuadorian markets will be the next measurable test of the platform's regional ambitions.