International Blockchain Accreditation (IBA Accreditation)

Commercial identification and contactability

The organisation operates at https://ibaccreditation.org/ under the trading names "IBA Accreditation," "IBAccreditation," and "IBA – International Blockchain Accreditation." The website footer states: "© 2026 All Rights Reserved IBA – International Blockchain Accreditation." The About Us and Contact Us pages describe the organisation as "The International Blockchain Accreditation Organization (IBA)."

No named individuals — directors, assessors, or persons responsible for accreditation decisions — are published anywhere on the website. No company registration number, no legal entity name distinct from the trading name, and no disclosure of the legal form or jurisdiction of incorporation appears on the website. The organisation claims to have been "Founded in 2015," but no documentary evidence of that founding or of the legal entity behind it is publicly accessible.

No telephone number is published. No email address is published. Contact is by web form only at https://ibaccreditation.org/contact-us/.

Addresses — serious concern: The Contact Us page lists twelve addresses under the heading "Our Global Legal Headquarters," including One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AB (described as "UK Branch") and The Chase Building, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford, Dublin D18 Y3X2 (described as "European Headquarters"), along with addresses in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, China, Japan, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand. None of these addresses has been verified as a location at which the organisation occupies physical premises or at which legal correspondence could be reliably served. One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, and The Chase Building, Sandyford, are both well-known virtual and serviced office address providers. The listing of twelve prestigious international addresses, with no named contacts, no telephone numbers, and no email addresses, is consistent with the use of virtual address services rather than genuine physical occupancy.

The Companies Act 2006, sections 1200–1206 (trading disclosures), requires UK businesses operating under a trading name to disclose the legal entity name and address on their website, in commercial correspondence, and at their place of business. No such disclosure has been made on this website. A search of Companies House for "International Blockchain Accreditation," "IBA Accreditation," and related terms has not returned any UK-registered company matching this organisation at the date of this review.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/about-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/contact-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk — searched 28th April 2026

Transparency of assessment framework

No published assessment framework, accreditation criteria, or standards document has been found on the website https://ibaccreditation.org/. The website does not describe the specific criteria against which a training provider, institution, or individual professional will be assessed before accreditation is granted.

The Become A Member page sets out the following "Eligibility Criteria": (1) applicants must have completed "a comprehensive education and training program in their field"; (2) members must have "proven experience in their field" and demonstrate "a high level of competence and professionalism"; and (3) members must adhere to the "IBA Code of Ethics." These are generic statements and do not constitute a published assessment framework. No IBA Code of Ethics document is accessible from the website. No definition of "comprehensive education," "proven experience," "high level of competence," or "international excellence standards" — the phrase used elsewhere on the website — is published.

The application process describes an "IBA evaluation team" that "carefully examines the submitted information to verify compliance with accreditation standards," but no accreditation standards are publicly accessible. The absence of a published, accessible assessment framework means that neither training providers nor consumers can determine what the organisation's accreditation represents, what criteria were applied, or whether those criteria were applied consistently across applicants.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/apply-now/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Pricing transparency

Pricing is published on the homepage and on the Become A Member page. Three membership tiers are offered, denominated in US dollars: Practitioner at $250 per year; Professional at $500 per year; and Training Provider at $600 per month. All prices are stated exclusively in US dollars. The organisation claims a "UK Branch" and targets the UK market; UK training providers and consumers should note that prices are denominated in USD and that the applicable exchange rate at time of purchase will affect the sterling cost.

The website states that payment is required before submission of application materials: "Upon payment, you will proceed to submit the required information for accreditation. In case of rejection, the accreditation fee will be fully refunded." This means prospective members are required to pay before the assessment process begins. No terms and conditions document governing the refund commitment is publicly accessible (see Section 4). The Training Provider tier is priced at $600 per month, which if sustained would represent $7,200 per year — a significantly higher cost than the annual Practitioner and Professional tiers — though no minimum contract period or cancellation terms are published.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Terms and conditions

No terms and conditions document is published on the website https://ibaccreditation.org/. No privacy policy is linked in the footer, the navigation, or on any page reviewed. No terms of service, accreditation agreement, or service contract is accessible to prospective applicants before they apply or pay.

The application form at https://ibaccreditation.org/apply-now/ contains an "Accept Terms" checkbox. The terms themselves are not linked, displayed, or accessible from that page. Applicants are required to accept terms whose content is not published.

The application form collects substantial personal data including full name, home address, postal code, country, date of birth, gender, email address, social media profile links across multiple platforms, photographs (up to three), details of therapies offered, insurance status, and details of any sanctions imposed by another accreditation body or awarding organisation. No privacy policy explaining how this data is collected, processed, stored, or shared is accessible on the website. The Facebook Pixel tracking code is embedded on the website, meaning user browsing data is transmitted to Meta platforms. No cookie notice or data processing consent mechanism was evident from the public-facing pages reviewed at the date of this review.

Under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, organisations processing personal data of individuals in the UK are required to publish an accessible privacy notice. The collection of photographs, date of birth, and sanction history — all of which may constitute special category data or data with significant personal impact — without a published privacy notice is a matter of serious regulatory concern. No ICO data protection registration for this organisation has been confirmed from searches conducted at the date of this review.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/apply-now/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Individual course assessment

The IBA model operates as a membership scheme: individuals and organisations pay an annual or monthly fee and, upon approval, receive accreditation as a "Practitioner," "Professional," or "Training Provider." This is not an individual course accreditation model in the CPD accreditation sense.

Under the Training Provider tier, the website describes the membership as accrediting organisations that provide training. No register of accredited courses is published on the website. No mechanism for verifying whether a specific course offered by a Training Provider member has been individually assessed is described or accessible. The website states that "blockchain-linked certificates" are issued to members, and a certificate verification search tool is present on the homepage, but this appears to verify membership status rather than the assessment of individual courses or training content.

This model does not provide the consumer assurance that comes from individual course accreditation. Training providers holding IBA Training Provider membership and their prospective clients cannot verify, from any publicly accessible source, whether any specific course has been independently assessed against published criteria.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Review and renewal

The Practitioner and Professional tiers are annual memberships ($250 and $500 per year respectively). The Training Provider tier is a monthly membership ($600 per month). No defined re-assessment or renewal process — in which accreditation status is reviewed against the original criteria on a defined cycle — is described on the website.

The membership model appears to operate as a subscription: continued payment maintains membership and the entitlement to use the IBA logo, certification, and directory listing. Whether the continued payment of the subscription fee involves any substantive review of the member's ongoing compliance with the eligibility criteria is not explained. No process for handling material changes to a training provider's courses or content between renewal periods is described.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Sale of training courses or materials

No evidence has been found on the website https://ibaccreditation.org/ of the organisation selling its own training courses or training materials to third parties. The organisation's commercial activity, as described on the website, is the provision of accreditation membership services. The Training Provider tier includes "Support in the Creation of Training Programs" and "International Consulting" as membership benefits; these services are described as being provided by IBA to paying members. No further detail about the scope, nature, or independence of this consultancy activity from the accreditation function is published.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Financial relationships with third-party service providers

The website references promotion through "IBA's official channels as well as the trusted partners' networks" as a membership benefit. The Become A Member page states that members gain "exposure through IBA's official channels as well as the trusted partners' networks, amplifying your visibility across multiple platforms." A testimonial on the homepage refers to "the marketing assistance, social media sponsorship (through both IBA and their trusted partners)." These references indicate that the organisation has commercial relationships with third parties who provide promotional or marketing services to IBA members.

The identity of these "trusted partners," the nature of those relationships, and whether any referral fees, revenue-sharing arrangements, or other financial considerations pass between IBA and those partners are not disclosed anywhere on the website. Under the CAP Code, commercial relationships that result in promotional benefit are required to be transparently disclosed. The repeated use of "trusted partners" language in member-facing marketing without disclosure of who those partners are or the commercial basis of the relationship is a transparency concern.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Ownership or control relationships with aligned commercial interests

No named individuals, directors, or persons with significant control have been identified on the website or from a Companies House search. The legal entity behind the trading name has not been confirmed. Without confirmation of the legal entity and its officers, it is not possible to assess whether ownership or control relationships exist between the accreditation function and any training providers that the organisation accredits.

The website does not disclose who owns or controls IBA, who makes accreditation decisions, or what governance structures are in place to ensure the independence of accreditation decisions from the organisation's commercial interests in retaining and expanding its membership base.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk — searched 28th April 2026

Consistency of filings with advertised activity

No UK-registered company matching the trading name "International Blockchain Accreditation," "IBA Accreditation," or "IBAccreditation" has been identified on Companies House at the date of this review. Without a confirmed UK-registered entity, it is not possible to assess the consistency of statutory filings with advertised activity.

The organisation claims to have been "Founded in 2015" and to operate "five main offices across different continents." The website lists twelve global office addresses on the Contact Us page. No corporate registry record in any jurisdiction has been identified to substantiate these claims. The website does not state any jurisdiction of incorporation, company registration number, or regulatory status in any country.

Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk — searched 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/about-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/contact-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Companies House status

No company named "International Blockchain Accreditation," "IBA Accreditation," or any sufficiently close variant has been found on the UK Companies House register at the date of this review. The organisation is not confirmed as a UK-registered legal entity.

The website lists "One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AB" as its "UK Branch" address. One Canada Square E14 5AB is widely used as a virtual office and correspondence address and is not indicative of physical occupancy. No UK company with this registered office address and a name corresponding to this organisation has been identified on Companies House.

The trading name incorporates the word "International." The GOV.UK sensitive words guidance (Annex A: Sensitive Words and Expressions) identifies "International" as a sensitive word, the use of which in a company or trading name may imply a connection with an international organisation or government body and may require justification. No such justification has been identified or is visible on the website.

Training providers and consumers engaging with this organisation should be aware that the legal entity, jurisdiction of incorporation, directors, and persons with significant control are not publicly identifiable from the UK statutory register. Standard recourse routes available against a UK-registered company — including service of legal proceedings, enforcement of judgments, and Companies House filings history — are not verifiable as applicable to this organisation.

Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk — searched 28th April 2026
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorporation-and-names/annex-a-sensitive-words-and-expressions-or-words-that-could-imply-a-connection-with-government — accessed 28th April 2026

Website status

The website https://ibaccreditation.org/ was reachable at the date of this review. The domain resolves and returns content. A valid TLS/SSL certificate is in place.

Source: DNS/TLS verification — 28th April 2026

Regulatory rulings and public enforcement records

No rulings against "IBA Accreditation," "IBAccreditation," or "International Blockchain Accreditation," or against the website ibaccreditation.org, have been found in the ASA published rulings database or in any other publicly accessible regulatory enforcement record at the date of this review. The absence of a recorded ruling does not constitute a finding of compliance and does not reduce the concerns recorded in other sections of this listing.

Source: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings.html — searched 28th April 2026
Source: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/ — searched 28th April 2026

Distinguishing CPD from regulated qualifications

The website at https://ibaccreditation.org/ makes multiple claims that are liable to create serious confusion between the organisation's membership scheme and formal qualifications, regulated professional recognition, or statutory accreditation. The following claims are drawn directly from the website:

The homepage headline states: "International Accreditation aligned with national, European and global education and professional qualification systems." The Become A Member page describes IBA as "the international certifier that accredits you for your profession, supporting professionals and training providers operating within national and international education and professional qualification systems." A testimonial on the homepage refers to "knowing that my qualifications meet global excellence standards." The About Us page states that "IBA operates within international institutional and regulatory ecosystems."

No regulatory body in the UK — including Ofqual, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), or any equivalent national qualification authority — has been identified as recognising IBA accreditation as part of any formal qualification framework. The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) alignment implied by references to "European" education systems has not been substantiated by any named European body. No named international institution, regulatory body, or intergovernmental organisation has been identified as confirming recognition of or affiliation with IBA.

The use of the phrase "aligned with national, European and global education and professional qualification systems" as a headline claim, without qualification or further explanation, is liable to lead consumers and training providers to believe that IBA accreditation forms part of, or is recognised within, a formal national or European qualification framework. This is a materially misleading presentation of the nature of the organisation's accreditation scheme.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/about-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026

Unsubstantiated claims

The following claims published on the website raise concerns under CAP Code rule 3.7 (substantiation) and rule 3.1 (misleading advertising) and have not been substantiated from any source identified in the course of this review:

"Founded in 2015" and "global leader." The About Us page states the organisation was "Founded in 2015" and "has established itself as a global leader in transparent, secure, and verifiable accreditation systems." No corporate registration, public filing, or other verifiable record of the organisation's founding in 2015 has been identified. The oldest indexed content from the website found in the course of this review is dated May 2025.

"Five main offices across different continents." The About Us page states: "With five main offices across different continents, IBA operates on an international scale." The Contact Us page lists twelve addresses. None of these addresses has been verified as a location at which the organisation occupies physical premises. The UK address (One Canada Square, Canary Wharf) and the Irish address (The Chase Building, Sandyford, Dublin) are both well-known virtual and serviced office address providers.

"Internationally recognised" and "globally valid certification." The website repeatedly states that IBA accreditation confers "international recognition" and a "globally valid certification." No named country, professional body, employer, regulator, or academic institution has been identified as recognising IBA accreditation. This claim is not substantiated anywhere on the website.

Alignment with national and European qualification systems. The homepage headline claim of accreditation "aligned with national, European and global education and professional qualification systems" implies a formal relationship with qualification frameworks, including the UK's Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). No such alignment has been substantiated. This claim is addressed further in Section 14.

Blockchain verification claim. The website states that certificates are "blockchain-linked" and "tamper-proof." No information about the specific blockchain platform used, the public ledger address on which certificate records are stored, or the mechanism by which third parties can independently verify a certificate on that blockchain — other than through the organisation's own website search tool — is published. A verification tool on the organisation's own website does not constitute independent third-party blockchain verification.

Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/about-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/contact-us/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: https://ibaccreditation.org/become-a-member/ — accessed 28th April 2026
Source: CAP Code (12th edition), Section 3 — https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_folder/3-misleading-advertising.html
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorporation-and-names/annex-a-sensitive-words-and-expressions-or-words-that-could-imply-a-connection-with-government — accessed 28th April 2026

Further Information about this organisation

Website

https://ibaccreditation.org/

Companies House Number

Not found — no UK-registered entity confirmed

Companies House Incorporation Date

Not confirmed

ICO Number

Not confirmed

ICO Registration Date

Not confirmed

Physical Office Published

No — addresses listed are unverified virtual/serviced office locations

Telephone

No — contact form only

Live Chat

Pricing Published

Yes

Accreditation Criteria Published

Activities Individually Accredited

Yes — USD pricing published on homepage and Become A Member page

Review Frequency

AccreditedNo — membership scheme, not individual course accreditation

Last Updated

28th April 2026

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