How identity verification works
You verify your identity once, and it happens at the point it actually matters: before money leaves for you.
When it happens
Verification is part of setting up your payouts. When your first payout is ready, Rise — our global payout partner — emails you an onboarding link. You create your Rise account, complete their verification, and that's the whole thing.
You don't verify at purchase, and you don't verify before you start trading. There's nothing to do until your first payout is in reach, and your dashboard tells you when that is.
Why it's at payout time
Two reasons, and both work in your favour:
- You're not asked for documents you may never need. Plenty of traders are still working through an evaluation. Collecting identity documents from everyone, up front, means holding sensitive information for people who never request a payout.
- It's the check that has to be right. Paying the wrong person is the mistake that matters, so the verification is attached to the payment rather than to the signup.
Who holds your documents
Rise does. Your identification is submitted to Rise and held by them. We receive the verification result and status — not your documents.
The same applies to your bank account or wallet details: they live in Rise, where you can update them yourself at any time without sending them to us.
It's one step, not a repeated one
Once you're verified, later payouts don't repeat it. If Rise ever needs something further from you — an expired document, a change of address — they'll ask you directly.
We may still ask
Separately from this, we reserve the right to ask you to verify your identity at any point where we see a compliance, fraud, or risk concern, and to run compliance reviews on funded accounts. That's set out in our Terms of Service. In normal use, the Rise verification is the only one you'll meet.
Ambassadors too
If you're in the Ambassador Program, your commissions run through the same Rise verification before your first withdrawal. See Getting paid as an Ambassador.
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