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Alcatraz Closes $50 Million Series B to Scale Facial Authentication for Physical Access
Alcatraz, a Cupertino-based provider of AI-powered physical access control, has closed a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing total capital raised to…
Tyrol Expands ID Austria Issuance to Foreign Nationals at Three District Offices
Austria’s Tyrol province has extended ID Austria issuance to foreign nationals at three district administrative offices, broadening access to the country’s…
1Kosmos Achieves Department of War IL4 Authorization for Defense Identity Platform
1Kosmos has received Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) Impact Level 4 authorization for its identity proofing and passwordless…
Prove Expands Ireland Operations With $5 Million Investment and 50 New Roles
Prove, the digital identity verification company, is expanding its Ireland operations with more than $5 million in investment and plans to create 50 new roles,…
South Africa’s SARS to Issue Biometric Digital Identity to All Taxpayers Under Modernisation 3.0
The South African Revenue Service has unveiled Modernisation 3.0, a digital transformation programme that will assign every taxpayer a unique digital identity…
Facephi Secures Five-Year Behavioral Biometrics and Mule Account Detection Deal with Central American Bank
Facephi has signed a five-year contract with a Central American banking institution to deploy its behavioral biometrics and mule account detection platform,…
Ghana Card Adds Embedded Payment Wallet, Completing Triple-Purpose National ID Vision
Ghana’s National Identification Authority has activated an embedded digital payment wallet in the Ghana Card, the country’s biometric national identity card,…
iProov Demonstrates Cryptographic Human-Intent Binding at RSA 2026
iProov has warned that the rapid deployment of autonomous AI agents in enterprise environments is creating an “accountability vacuum” in which high-impact…
Regula Survey Finds Identity Verification Teams Rely on Reactive KPIs While Fraud Threats Become Forward-Looking
A survey by Regula of fraud prevention and financial crime professionals in the United States, Germany, the UAE, and Singapore finds that most organizations…