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MAYI ID launches its identity trust platform at the Gartner IAM Summit 2026
Swiss-engineered identity orchestration platform delivers Cloud-Act safe, CA agnostic digital trust for the post-quantum era MAYI ID today announced the market launch and global availability of its identity trust platform at the Gartner Identity & Access...
The Deepfake Summit: Resilient trust™ in the era of AI-driven draud
Confronting AI-Driven Impersonation in the Identity Ecosystem As generative AI advances at unprecedented speed, deepfakes and synthetic identities are fundamentally altering the nature of fraud risk across financial services, fintech, government, payments, and digital...
Hopae appoints former Mastercard SVP of Digital Identity Sarah Clark as CPO & GM North America
Strategic appointment to accelerate Hopae’s global digital identity infrastructure and expand its presence in North America. Hopae, the global digital identity infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Sarah Clark as Chief Product Officer and General...
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...
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...
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...
Integrated Biometrics unveils InfantID at ID4Africa 2025 and Identity Week Europe, revolutionising early childhood identification
Integrated Biometrics (IB), a global leader in biometric fingerprint technology, proudly announces the introduction of InfantID, a revolutionary solution for capturing high quality fingerprint images from birth offering a transformative leap in lifelong biometric...
Orchestrating Identity gains dual certification for UK government’s Digital ID services framework
Having been involved in the UK’s digital identity space for nearly 20 years, from the Identity Card Programme to GOV.UK Verify, Orchestrating Identity has been awarded dual certification from Kantara Initiative as both an Identity Service Provider (IDSP) and an...
iProov uncovers “Grey Nickel”: Threat actor targeting banking, crypto, and payment platforms
An active cybercriminal operation, codenamed 'Grey Nickel', has been systematically bypassing identity verification systems used by banks, crypto exchanges, e-wallets, and payment platforms around the world. iProov's Security Operations Center observed live operations...
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