Editor-in chief. Market intelligence and strategy expert, and long-year speaker, moderator. More than 15 years in global identity verification, age verification, and RegTech markets.
Posts by Per Henrikson:
The Myna App went live today. It is the Mynaportal App under a new name, with the Digital Authentication App’s mechanism built in, and it handles both identity verification with the card and the process of loading the card’s functions onto a handset.
Fobi, WISeKey and Atsign add quantum-resistant protections across mobile credentials, PKI, secure hardware and developer platforms.
Authorities have begun work on updating legislation governing driving permits, bringing it in line with a new EU directive, media reported on Thursday. The updated EU Driving Licence Directive introduces fully digital mobile driving licences stored in the EU Digital Identity Wallet, a mandatory minimum two-year probationary period for novices.
Socure, a leading AI-native trust infrastructure provider, has raised $156 million in strategic growth funding and acquired agentic AI platform Fravity, pushing its RiskOS platform beyond identity and fraud decisioning and deeper into the investigation work that follows a risk alert. The transaction values Socure at $5.2 billion.
iOS 27 tweaks some of the information and menus shown alongside the Digital ID passport feature in the Apple Wallet app. As a result of these changes and/or a related bug, some iPhone users have seen their Digital ID deactivated on recent iOS 27 beta versions. As a result of these changes and/or a related bug, some iPhone users have seen their Digital ID deactivated on recent iOS 27 beta versions.
Qoobiss has been an accredited remote identity verification provider with Romania's Authority for Digitalisation since December 2022, and reports that it became the first e-KYC provider in the country to validate the new chip-based ID cards remotely by video in March 2024
The platform will allow more citizens to open bank accounts and access online banking products and services, without having to visit a physical branch.
GASA is integrating TruthScan's deepfake detection technology into scam.org (a scam-prevention website and project by GASA). Users of scam.org will now be able to upload an image to the website for analysis to determine whether the image is authentic, edited, or generated by artificial intelligence.
Article reviews iDenfy, Qoobiss, IDnow, iProov, Jumio, Ondato, Shufti, Sumsub, Veriff.
RFI outlines plans for persistent device recognition, AI agent identification and behavioral risk analysis across the Login.gov user journey.
Eden AI is a unified API platform based in France, used by over 200,000 developers. It aggregates 700+ AI models from 50+ providers behind a single endpoint, so teams can access LLMs, computer vision, document parsing, and speech processing through one API key and one billing dashboard.
New telecom rules retain mandatory biometric verification but abandon a proposed cross-operator biometric database after privacy concerns.
