EFG Holding has received initial approval from Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority to enter the regulator’s sandbox with a platform that verifies foreign nationals by reading the chip in an NFC-enabled […]

Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority has launched an electronic biometric verification system that lets users complete identity checks and electronic signatures inside mobile applications rather than at a company branch. […]

The Central Bank of Egypt has approved the regulations governing its Digital Financial Identity platform, the system through which banks will identify customers and verify them electronically so that accounts […]

Egyptian lawmaker Amira al-Adly has called for clearer legal and institutional safeguards around plans to use facial recognition when registering mobile phone lines. Adly, a member of the House of […]

Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is moving to add biometric identity verification to mobile operators’ apps as part of a wider effort to prevent SIM cards from being registered under […]

Egypt will begin piloting a digital visa-on-arrival service across all arrival terminals at Cairo International Airport on August 1. The system replaces the paper visa sticker with an electronically issued […]

Welcome to FindBiometrics’ digest of identity industry news. Here’s what you need to know about the world of digital identity and biometrics today: Egypt Requires Digital ID, Biometrics for Certain […]

EyeLock will be providing secure iris-based access control for a quartet of government data center facilities in Egypt. The facilities are located in the country’s new administrative capital, and will […]

ZKTeco is celebrating another successful promotional event, having showcased its time tracking, access control, and biometric security offerings at the recent Cairo ICT event in Egypt. Cairo ICT is a […]