Press Releases
The face of the future: Why facial recognition demands a rethink of privacy and power
In December 2025, a new reality took effect at U.S. borders: every non-citizen entering or leaving the country may have their face photographed and processed through biometric systems. No age exemptions. No opt-outs for frequent travellers. The Department of Homeland...
Ontario International Airport welcomes TSA acceptance of digital IDs
Ontario International Airport announced that Digital IDs are now accepted at their TSA security checkpoints, making identification verification faster, more secure, and more convenient for travellers. With TSA's new Digital ID program, eligible travellers can present...
Sumsub joins World Economic Forum Unicorn Community to tackle AI fraud and advance inclusive digital identity
Sumsub, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, today announced it has joined the World Economic Forum’s Unicorn Community, an exclusive, invite-only program for private high-growth companies valued at over $1 billion and shaping the future of...
Ubiqu and Thales collaborate to strengthen Europe’s digital identity infrastructure
Ubiqu launches a solution combining Ubiqu Remote Secure Element (RSE) with Thales Luna HSM to eliminate the complexity of building secure, certified wallet infrastructure. This collaboration accelerates EU-wide adoption of secure and trusted digital identity with...
BeyondTrust and Ping Identity partner to deliver unified identity security fabric
Press release BeyondTrust, the global leader in privilege-centric identity security protecting Paths to Privilege™, and Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world’s largest enterprises, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver a...
P0 Security delivers zero standing privilege with continuous privilege lifecycle governance
P0 Security, the modern privileged access control plane, today announced new capabilities that extend its core architecture to continuously enforce Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) at scale. With these updates, P0 becomes the first platform to offer a closed-loop ZSP...
Hopae invests €5M in Europe to accelerate enterprise adoption of digital identity, including the EUDI Wallet
Strategic expansion follows partnership with Luxembourg’s INCERT to make Hopae Connect the first EU-registered intermediary unifying all European eIDs and digital wallets Hopae, the global digital identity infrastructure company, today announced a €5 million...
X Infotech wins landmark biometrics tender in Estonia – Pioneering mobile fingerprint capture and expanding into SaaS
X Infotech is proud to announce that it has been awarded the contract for the “Remote biometrics capture for verification solutions” project by the IT and Development Centre of the Ministry of the Interior of Estonia (SMIT). The project will deliver an advanced mobile...
GLEIF confirms the Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority as China’s latest qualified vLEI issuer, further advancing global trade digitalisation efforts
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation today announces the Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority Co. Ltd. (SHECA) as the latest Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI) within the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) ecosystem. Pioneered by GLEIF as the secure...
Businesses and retailers urged to step up cyber security with one in three SMEs hit by digital crime
With cyber-attacks becoming a more frequent occurrence as technology develops, businesses of all sizes are being urged to step up levels of protection as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. While recent high-profile attacks include the likes of Jaguar Land Rover,...
World’s only AI fused-biometrics company receives £250,000 seed investment
FARx, the world’s first and only AI fused-biometrics company, spun out of the UK, has secured a quarter of a million pounds of seed investment, aided by the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) – a UK Government initiative providing tax relief to investors who...
GLEIF and Chainlink form strategic partnership to bring institutional-grade identity solution to blockchain industry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the only global source of open, standardised and high-quality legal entity reference data, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced a strategic partnership to create an...
TECH5’s fingerprint matching algorithm becomes the best in NIST FRIF TE E1N
TECH5, an innovator in the field of biometrics and digital identity, shows the best result in the NIST FRIF TE E1N evaluation, outperforming competition on accuracy, template creation speed, and efficiency. TECH5’s latest submission to NIST FRIF TE E1N was on August...
GLEIF announces partnership with the IOTA Foundation to promote the digitalisation of global trade
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and the IOTA Foundation - a non-profit organisation that develops the IOTA distributed ledger infrastructure - today announce a collaboration to explore how standardised organisational digital identity can enable...
Hopae and INCERT partner to make Hopae connect the first EU-registered intermediary for a wide adoption and use of EU Digital Identity Wallet
Strategic alliance delivers sovereign-grade compliance infrastructure for the coming European Digital Identity mandate Hopae Inc., creator of the g– Global eID and Wallet orchestration platform, and INCERT GIE, Luxembourg’s public trust infrastructure agency, today...
FaceTec releases v10 of its world-leading 3D face verification software suite
Major update includes significant increases in security, usability, and compatibility FaceTec announced the release of Version 10 of its face verification software as a major development milestone of its highly successful 3D Liveness and Matching software. The update...
TokenWorks and ONEPROOF deliver nation’s largest mobile driver’s licence verification rollout
Industry Leaders Demonstrate Unmatched mDL Verification Scale: 15,000 Devices Upgraded Across 7500+ North American Business Locations TokenWorks Inc., North America's premier provider of ID scanning and age verification solutions, today announced the successful...
New members for optical technologies trade body strengthen international reach
The International Optical Technologies Association (IOTA) has further cemented its position at the forefront of authentication, anti-counterfeiting and automation optical security technologies for global law enforcement agencies, central governments and brand owners,...
From perception to protection: What Africa’s Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) don’t know about employees could cost them
Cybersecurity in Africa is entering a new phase. As organisations mature their defences and invest in security awareness training (SAT), a difficult-to-spot, but critical gap is emerging – not between tools and cyber threats, but between what leaders...
G-Knot appoints fintech, crypto veteran Wes Kaplan as CEO to launch the first finger vein biometric wallet
Strategic leadership appointment positions G-Knot to redefine digital security and identity management G-Knot, a pioneering biometrics technology company developing the world’s first finger vein crypto wallet, today announced the appointment of Wes Kaplan as the...
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