Frankie One
Founded 2017 · 104 employees on LinkedIn · 8 known investors
FrankieOne provides customer onboarding and identity verification solutions for financial institutions and fintech companies, offering KYC, KYB, AML, and biometric capabilities designed to balance compliance requirements with user experience.
Also known as Frankie One · FrankieOne
Founders & leadership
Frankie One was founded in 2017 by Simon Costello and Aaron Chipper.
Investors · 8
Company profile
researched Aug 2026FrankieOne operates a platform that provides financial institutions and fintech companies with a single integration into a global ecosystem of KYC, KYB, AML/CTF, identity verification and fraud tools. Rather than supplying its own underlying data, the company aggregates third-party vendors and data sources — stated on its site as more than 350 — and allows customers to activate or switch between checks and verifications with little development work.
The platform comprises an API integration hub, a configurable real-time risk-based decision engine, and a single customer view. Customers define custom risk profiles and automate decisioning for both individuals and businesses through dynamic workflows, and can adjust the verifications applied during a customer journey according to a real-time risk rating, both at onboarding and for ongoing monitoring. Product components named by the company include KYC, KYB, IDV, AML/CTF, OneSDK, fraud and transaction monitoring, and a portal. Implementation options span mobile and desktop, a customizable front end, biometrics and headless deployments.
In the age assurance context, FrankieOne was assessed as an aggregator platform that enables age inference through third-party integrations and supports orchestration logic for fallback, confidence thresholds and multi-vendor identity decisioning; the assessment noted the company does not offer native age inference capability and that its technology readiness rating reflects reliance on external providers.
Business model
FrankieOne sells a compliance and fraud orchestration platform to regulated financial institutions and fintechs, integrating third-party identity, AML and fraud vendors behind a unified API so customers can enable capabilities without separate integrations.
Traction
The company states that 100+ companies use its platform and that customers see an average boost in pass rates. Organisations listed as reviewing and trusting FrankieOne include several major Australian banks, marketplaces and cryptocurrency exchanges.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, risks & controversies
Market position
Described on its own site as an award-winning global RegTech; named customers and reviewers include ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac, Qantas, Finder, BTC Markets, Cointree, MYOB, Shopify.com, Afterpay, Kraken and Binance. It participated as a vendor in the Australian Age Assurance Technology Trial, where it was summarised as strong on fraud prevention, high assurance, configuration and delivery.
Positions itself as a single connection to a broad multi-vendor ecosystem — 350+ data sources — allowing customers to 'switch on' best-of-breed checks and orchestrate decisioning rather than integrating each provider individually.
Technology
A unified API integration hub connecting hundreds of external vendors and data sources, feeding signals into a configurable real-time, risk-based decision engine with dynamic workflows and a single customer view. Delivery options include a customizable front end, an SDK (OneSDK), biometrics and headless implementations. The platform is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, independently attested as SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, and states GDPR compliance; data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2 and above and at rest with AES-256 and SHA-512, and the service runs across multiple data centres. A trust centre publishes security documentation, policies, penetration test and SOC 2 reports, and incident-response updates.
Go-to-market
Banks — including Tier 1 institutions — fintechs, financial services companies and other regulated businesses that must onboard and monitor individual and business customers.
Geography
Markets itself as a global RegTech serving international vendors and customers; publicly named customers are concentrated among Australian banks and financial services firms, and it addresses the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and Notifiable Data Breach scheme alongside the EU GDPR.
Risks & controversies
As a security-sensitive vendor holding regulated financial institutions' onboarding data, the company publishes impact assessments of open-source supply chain attacks; in reviews of the March 2026 LiteLLM/axios compromises and the May 2026 'Mini Shai-Hulud' npm and PyPI campaign it reported no compromised package versions in its systems and no customer data affected. Its age assurance assessment noted dependence on external providers for inference capability.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Companies competing with Frankie One for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsFollowing the 12 May 2026 supply chain attack on npm and PyPI packages, FrankieOne conducted an SBOM audit across all repositories, reported no compromised package versions and no customer data affected, pinned third-party GitHub Actions to commit SHAs, and added published indicators of compromise to its scanners and endpoint detection tooling.
FrankieOne reviewed the late-March 2026 LiteLLM PyPI maintainer compromise and the axios supply chain attack, reporting the issues as reviewed and remediated with no customer impact.
FrankieOne took part in the Age Assurance Technology Trial as a vendor case study appearing in the main report, age verification and age inference sections. It was assessed as an aggregator platform enabling age inference via third-party integrations and orchestration logic for fallback, confidence thresholds and multi-vendor identity decisioning, with no native age inference capability.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- Frankie Onefrankieone.com · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Frankie One do?
- FrankieOne is a RegTech platform giving banks and fintechs one API connection to global KYC, KYB, AML and fraud vendors.
- Who founded Frankie One?
- Frankie One was founded by Simon Costello, Aaron Chipper in 2017.
- Who are Frankie One's investors?
- Frankie One's investors include AirTree Ventures, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Greycroft, Mantis Capital, Reinventure Group, Scalare Partners, Tidal Ventures, Triton Capital.