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:
BankID is a blockchain-based authentication service jointly created by banks in 2018 under the name BankSign. The phaseout of BankID is seen as stemming from its lack of user convenience and banks strengthening their own authentication systems.
Middle East banks must shift from reactive to proactive defence strategies.
Sony has introduced a new mobile application called PlayStation Family, giving parents comprehensive control and oversight of their children’s gaming activities on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles.
Toppan was certified by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) as the first Japanese Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI) in the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) ecosystem.
Premier Sports Network (PSN) has formed a partnership with Alcatraz AI to bring facial authentication to sports venues. The collaboration aims to improve stadium security and simplify access control for players, staff, contractors, and VIP guests, while adopting a privacy-first approach to biometric verification.
The Missouri Merchandising Practices Act requires pornographic websites to have strict age-verification measures in place. The other option is for the sites to have face recognition ability.
The product is based on Germany’s eID and designed for onboarding and agreement processes in sectors such as finance, insurance and public administration.
The .ROBOT domain provides a universal identity layer for the robotics revolution, spanning humanoid machines, industrial cobots, gaming NPCs, automation platforms, and AI-powered digital agents.
The first wallet-less L1 blockchain XION has announced the official implementation of Apple ID protocol-level login, allowing over 3 billion Apple device users to seamlessly enter Web3. No wallet, no seed phrase needed.
By partnering with Ondato’s AI-driven and biometric verification solutions, VIALET enhances the security and compliance of its onboarding workflows, particularly for customers in regulated spaces like iGaming.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), has proposed establishing a new federal agency to oversee digital identity verification technologies in the United States.
Costa Rica has entered a new era of digital identification with the launch of the Identidad Digital Costarricense (IDC), a voluntary digital identity card available to all citizens over 18 years of age. This innovative service complements, but does not replace, the existing physical cédula, which remains the primary form of identification.
