2026-03-04
Per Henrikson
The collaboration is aimed at addressing rising cases of identity fraud in higher education, including synthetic identities, so-called ghost students and financial aid fraud.
Gr4vy, a cloud-based payment orchestration platform, has announced an integration with Sardine, an agentic platform for financial crime prevention. The partnership enables Gr4vy merchants to activate fraud detection, real-time transaction monitoring, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML compliance tools through a single connection, without additional development work.
Bright Pattern, a provider of AI-powered contact center software, announced that IDnow identity verification platform in Europe has selected the Bright Pattern Contact Center platform to fully replace its legacy Contact Center environment. IDnow verifies more than 115 million identities per year, for more than 600 customers and more than 215 international issuing authorities.
2026-03-04
Per Henrikson
Semperis has acquired MightyID to extend its identity-first security and cyber resilience strategy beyond Active Directory and Entra ID into Okta and Ping.
In a new white paper, Visa explores how citizen‑wallet initiatives — secure apps that hold official IDs and credentials — are gaining momentum globally.
Japan is expanding its national digital identity system, authorizing Toshiba to install applications in the unused space of the My Number Card’s IC chip.
2026-03-03
Ian Fleming
In a large recent study, psychologists and computer scientists at the University of Florida found that AI programs were up to 97% accurate at detecting pictures of deepfake faces. Participants in the study performed no better than chance.
Telin positions Network Is the New Identity Laye, as it partners with IPification to launch Telin Verify, a Mobile Network Verification solution delivering seamless, OTP-free authentication at the network level.
Fideo Intelligence, an AI-driven identity intelligence engine, this week announced the launch of Verify for Payments, a real-time identity intelligence solution designed to help payment service providers, fintech platforms, payment processors, and financial institutions detect fraud earlier while approving more legitimate customers.
2026-03-02
Ian Fleming
UK government confirming that certified Digital Verification Services (DVS) can be used to meet statutory identity checks under anti-money laundering rules.
Agency officials signaled concern that companies might hesitate to deploy age-verification technologies out of fear that collecting data to determine age could itself trigger COPPA liability. This policy statement directly addresses that tension.
The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children's online privacy law against certain websites that collect and use minors' personal data in order to verify their ages.
