Xcelerate and Socure Win $163M Dollar Call Order for Login.gov Identity Proofing
Xcelerate Solutions and its subcontractor Socure will supply the next generation of remote identity proofing for Login.gov, the US government’s shared sign-in…
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Entrust Opens Agentic AI Trust Accelerator for Identity and Authorization of AI Agents
Entrust has launched a co-development program aimed at giving enterprises the identity plumbing their AI agents currently lack, so that autonomous software can…
NEC and Ava Labs Propose Face-Verified Stablecoin Payments to Keep Biometrics Off-Chain
NEC has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs to explore on-chain services built around its biometric identity technology, starting with a jointly…
EU Child Safety Panel Rejects Biometric Age Checks in Favour of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
The expert panel advising the European Commission on child safety online has recommended an EU-wide floor keeping under-13s off social media, and it wants the…
BOYLE Sports Adopts Jumio Identity Checks as Ireland’s New Gambling Regime Bites
Irish bookmaker BOYLE Sports is embedding Jumio’s identity verification into player onboarding across the UK and Ireland, as operators adjust to the compliance…
Seiko Solutions and Trust Stamp Plan Facial Recognition Service Rollout in Japan
Seiko Solutions and the US biometrics firm Trust Stamp have begun a joint project to bring a facial recognition authentication service to Japan, aiming for a…
Mercosur Approves Mutual Recognition of Digital IDs Across South American Borders
Mercosur has approved an agreement on the mutual recognition of electronic identification and authentication, giving the digital identity systems of Argentina,…
VIDA Shows Passwordless Banking Deployment as Fraud Shifts to Compromised Devices
Indonesian digital identity firm VIDA has demonstrated a production deployment of passwordless authentication at a Malaysian digital bank, using the case to…
Bahrain’s SICO Opens Investment Accounts Through the eKey 2.0 National Digital ID
Bahraini investment bank SICO has launched fully digital investment account opening built on eKey 2.0, the kingdom’s national digital identity framework,…
Von der Leyen Signals EU Social Media Age Rules, With Age Verification App as a Tool
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will propose rules on children’s access to social media after the summer, pointing to the bloc’s…