Ipsidy Announces Results for Year Ended December 31, 2017

LONG BEACH, New York, March 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ipsidy Inc. (www.ipsidy.com) (OTCQB: IDTY), (formerly known as ID Global Solutions Corporation), a provider of secure, biometric identification, identity management and electronic transaction processing services, today announced its results for the year ended December 31, 2017.

Financial Highlights for the Year Ended December 31, 2017

• Total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2017 was $2.3 million compared to $1.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016.
• Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2017 was $17.5 million compared to a net loss of $9.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. In 2017, there was a negative impact of $4.1 million from the elimination of debt and modification of warrants, as compared to a positive impact of $7.3 million in 2016 from the reduction in the derivative liability.
• Basic and fully diluted net loss per share for the years ended December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016 were both $0.05 cents.
• Adjusted EBITDA loss for the year ended December 31, 2017 was $5.7 million compared to an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $4.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, as the Company invested in infrastructure and technology and engaged additional personnel to support on-going and future operations.
• Converted outstanding debt and accrued interest in the amount of approximately $6.3 million into approximately 84.8 million shares of common stock.
• Repaid an additional $0.3 million of outstanding debt, cancelled 3.6 million warrants and cancelled 2.5 million shares of the Company’s common stock.
• Secured $9.0 million of additional equity and $3.0 million of debt financing.
• Total liabilities reduced to $4.1 million as of December 31, 2017, compared to liabilities of $25.8 million as of December 31, 2016, and stockholders’ equity increased to $12.9 million as of December 31, 2017, compared to a stockholders’ deficit of $13.3 million as of December 31, 2016.

The combination of the above events resulted in the substantial improvement in the Company’s balance sheet and provided near-term working capital.

Refer to Table 1 for reconciliation of net income to Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure).

Operational Highlights

• Announced the appointment of Philip Beck as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive and President and Stuart Stoller as Chief Financial Officer on January 31, 2017.
• Added Ted Stern to the Board of Directors on September 28, 2017.
• Changed name to Ipsidy Inc. adopted the new ticker symbol “IDTY” and in February 2018 Ipsidy was upgraded to the OTC Markets OTCQB tier. This is a Venture Market for early stage and developing companies who are current in their filings and undergo an annual verification and management certification process.
• Continued process improvements to the Company’s MultiPay bill pay transaction platform in Colombia.
• Continued to enhance our identity transaction platform.
• Initiated pilot programs in the United States using IdLok to provide identity and transaction authentication, in order to test our products in the market, gain customer and use feedback and ready the products for commercial launch in the marketplace.
• In December 2017, we won an international tender by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for the provision of our IdSearch^TM / IMS Voter Registry Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to provide automated voter roll publication and ensure that no duplicate entries exist in the voter roll for the forthcoming election.

“2017 was a year of transformational change,” said Philip Beck, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ipsidy. “The Company was recapitalized, management was reorganized and the Ipsidy team strengthened. We continue to enhance our identity transaction platform, in order to create trusted transactions to approve everyday events. Our platform enables customers to choose the levels of friction and assurance that are appropriate to their business. We are looking forward to an exciting year of progress.”

We are building upon our existing capabilities in biometric identification and multi-factor identity authentication and management solutions to develop an identity transaction platform for our business customers. The platform is being designed to enable the end users of our business customers to more easily authenticate their identity through a mobile phone or portable device of their choosing (as opposed to dedicated hardware). Our system enables participants to complete transactions with a digitally signed authentication response, including the underlying transaction data and embedded attributes of the participant’s identity.

We believe that it is essential that businesses and consumers know who is on the other side of an electronic transaction and have an audit trail, proving that the identity of the other party was duly authenticated. We are continuing to enhance solutions to provide our customers with the next level of transaction security, control and certainty. Our platform uses biometric and multi-factor identity management solutions, which are intended to support a wide variety of electronic transactions. We define “electronic transactions” in the broadest sense to include not only financial transactions (i.e. exchanges of value in all of their forms), and legal transactions (e.g. approving the release of personal or other confidential data or the execution of documents), but also access control to physical environments (e.g. border crossings and secure areas at offices, data centers and other sensitive locations) and digital environments (e.g. accessing account information, voting systems, email systems and controlling data network log-ins).

Additional analysis of the Company’s performance can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 filed at www.sec.gov and posted on the Company’s investor relations website.

About Ipsidy:

Ipsidy Inc (OTCQB: IDTY) www.ipsidy.com (formerly known as ID Global Solutions Corporation OTC: IDGS) is a provider of secure, biometric identification, identity management and electronic transaction processing services. Ipsidy is headquartered in New York and has operating subsidiaries: MultiPay in Colombia, www.multipay.com.co and Cards Plus in South Africa, www.cardsplus.co.za. Our identity transaction platform creates a trusted transaction, embedding authenticated identity and event details with a digital signature and using a participant’s mobile device to approve everyday transactions. Our platform is being designed to use biometric and multi-factor identity management solutions, which are intended to support a wide variety of electronic transactions. We believe that it is essential that businesses and consumers know who is on the other side of an electronic transaction and have an audit trail, proving that the identity of the other party was duly authenticated. We continue to enhance our solutions to provide our customers with the next level of transaction security, control and certainty over everyday transactions. Further information on Ipsidy can be found at www.ipsidy.com or contact us at sales@ipsidy.com.