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 SİMA Imza app was launched in 2022, and has been downloaded 5.5 million times, surpassing half of Azerbaijan’s total population earlier this year.
A simple online transaction can pull victims into vicious cycle of fraud.
As enterprise systems grow more complex due to interconnected assets, the proliferation of device and nonhuman identities, and widespread adoption of cloud, hybrid, and multicloud strategies, organizations across industries are turning to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to secure their systems and assets. These findings are from ABI Research’s Public Key Infrastructure Market Data report.
CrowdStrike acquires SGNL to deliver Continuous Identity by redefining privilege and access for humans, NHIs, and AI agents with real-time authorization.
A new report for the World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas, published on January 8, noted that this advancement coincided with other worrying trends, such as threat actors increasingly targeting financial services and cryptocurrency – particularly prone to KYC bypass attacks.
Malaisian MBI has endorsed a privacy-focused age verification solution built on the Zetrix blockchain platform, as governments worldwide move to tighten rules aimed at protecting minors online. The solution is intended to help social media and messaging platforms verify users' age eligibility while limiting the amount of personal data collected and stored.
Datai, a Luxembourg-based consultancy firm, has selected Hopae, the digital identity infrastructure company, to modernize KYC processes for its financial institution clients in Europe and make them fully compliant with eIDAS 2.0.
The emergence of synthetic identities created by artificial intelligence (AI) signifies a shift in financial crime. Deepfakes, a form of synthetic media, are hyper-realistic alterations of audio, video and images produced using machine learning techniques like generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Generative AI is accelerating password attacks against Active Directory, making credential abuse faster and more effective. Specops Software explains how AI-driven cracking techniques exploit weak and predictable AD passwords.
Trading education platform FTMO implements iDenfy's KYB technology to verify corporate clients across 120+ countries.
Discover how Akamai and Visa are collaborating to enhance security for AI agents in digital commerce, ensuring safer transactions and protecting consumer data in the evolving online marketplace.
UAE banks will phase out SMS OTPs for online transactions from January 6, 2026, implementing biometric authentication instead to enhance security.
