JUMIO at Peru Gaming Show 2026: reusable identity, faster onboarding, and the compliance pressure behind both

At Peru Gaming Show, JUMIO’s Pilar Pereira made the case for something high-risk operators already know in practice: if onboarding is slow, users leave, and if verification is too loose, regulators come calling. The pitch was reusable identity — recognizing a user through signals like a mobile phone, email, or phone line, not just a government-issued document.

1. Peru Gaming Show has been running for 23 years and is positioned as a major meeting point for networking, innovation, and business development in the gaming industry. The event brings together operators, regulators, technology providers, and sector leaders, which makes it a natural place to talk about verification, conversion, and compliance in the same breath.
2. Pereira said identity has changed from a traditional document-only model to reusable identity. In her framing, recognition can now be based on additional indicators such as the mobile phone, email, or telephone line, with the goal of reducing friction in registration while keeping regulatory compliance in place.
3. The commercial problem is blunt. Pereira said 53% of users abandon a site if the process takes more than 3 seconds, and more than 88% do not return after a bad experience. For betting and gaming operators, that means verification is not just a back-office control; it sits directly on the conversion funnel.
4. She also tied the discussion to sports-betting spikes around major events. According to her, the FIFA World Cup drives more than $50 billion in sports betting, representing almost 50% of the annual global total, and user activity during these periods rises 3 to 5 times above normal. That puts additional stress on onboarding and verification flows right when volume matters most.
5. On the other side of the equation, Pereira said regulatory penalties in Latin America already exceed $160 million for compliance failures. Her point was that operators have to balance user experience with requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC), because slow registration hurts revenue and weak controls increase regulatory exposure.

The thing is, for high-risk PSPs and operators, this is not a theoretical debate about identity philosophy. It is a practical question of how to keep approval rates, reduce abandonment, and avoid turning peak traffic into peak compliance risk.