{"id":6873,"date":"2025-10-05T08:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:45:20","slug":"game-changer-for-deed-transactions-biometric-identity-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/game-changer-for-deed-transactions-biometric-identity-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Game-Changer for Deed Transactions: Biometric Identity Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fidelity National Financial (FNF\u00ae), the leading U.S. title insurance and settlement services company, will now integrate a biometric security system. FNF is partnering with CLEAR (Clearme.com<\/em>), the airport security group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal? To protect home buyers, sellers, and agents from impersonation, malicious messages, and wire fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A safe deed is a wonderful thing. Then again, here\u2019s an example of how we keep handing more personal data to companies. Is the tradeoff worth it? See what you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How the New System Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The collaboration meshes the CLEAR1<\/em> platform with FNF\u2019s inHere<\/em> closing system. FNF says biometric identity verification increases transparency, making title and escrow activities safer. It can sniff out people who pretend to be sellers, buyers, lending professionals, or real estate agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLEAR\u2019s chair and CEO, Caryn Seidman Becker, has said Clear Secure, Inc. is \u201cthrilled to partner with\u201d Fidelity National Financial because a deed transaction is an \u201cimportant milestone in life and people deserve to feel safe every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FNF is also deploying warnings through its platforms to alert participants of suspicious activity. FNF\u2019s inHere system avoids the need for email communications. Email is a frequent channel of falsified communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FNF is responding to customers\u2019 fears of fraud involving the biggest purchase many of us will ever make. Wire fraudsters and impersonators are seriously impacting buyers and sellers. Regulators, county officials, and title companies have all been looking at how to obstruct the swindlers from gaining access to money or placing claims on people\u2019s deeds. Swindlers often use email channels to pretend they are home sellers, and to redirect wire transfers by sending out falsified instructions. Integrating biometrics with the FNF inHere<\/em> platform will add to the system security when people carry out closings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, FNF is introducing a new industry standard for deed transfers and mortgage closings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear Has Also Begun Working With Docusign\u200d\u00ae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In April 2025, Docusign began working with CLEAR biometrics. Now, Docusign customers may set up their accounts to include their biometrically checked identities. The point is for people to keep their accounts secure and have the ability to send documents that are verified as bearing their real signatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Docusign, the tool takes its own Intelligent Agreement Management platform and couples it with CLEAR\u2019s biometric verification system. Using CLEAR\u2019s biometric identity verifications for Docusign\u00ae is a significant move for a company that plays a major role in real estate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many real estate professionals and local deed recorders are concerned with the rise in fraud that exploits digital systems. Bad actors continue to move at the cutting edge of technological innovations. Data security is getting trickier<\/a>, say title experts, in a time of generative AI and deepfakes, and the exploitive use of email links and barcodes or QR codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real estate companies are using \u201cDocusign ID verification with CLEAR\u201d to do a number of things. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n