2026-03-03
Per Henrikson
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.
Facephi, a global leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention, announces its entry into Japan through Hancom, its exclusive partner in Asia-Pacific (APAC). Under an exclusivity agreement signed May 15, 2024, Hancom acquired 7% of Facephi’s capital (€5mm at €2.95/share) and secured a 3-year APAC licensing agreement.
Global workplace trust company, Veremark, has acquired Singapore-based Risk Management Intelligence (RMI), a background verification company to strengthens Singapore roots as cross-border hiring and compliance pressures intensify across ASEAN.
2026-03-03
Per Henrikson
Millions of citizens cannot enrol, particularly those with disabilities; Millions of Africans are also denied legal ID because government officials dispute their citizenship; Some do not want to enrol for a biometric digital-ID because they have good reason not to trust their governments with their personal information.
By the end of march 2026, citizens will be able to use their ID card and driver's license in electronic form. The Ministry of Digital Transformation expects final comments from Poland, where the application has been sent for testing, within 3 weeks.
The Government is focusing on launching inclusive digital development and plans are on to introduce revolutionary projects such as a ‘Digital Identity Card’ unique to every citizen and a ‘Super App’ that will enable all Government services to be accessed in one place in 2026.
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.
