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.
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Regtech is a new standalone category on the list this year, reflecting the growing role of companies that help other businesses meet their regulatory obligations across reporting, compliance, identity verification, and anti-money-laundering monitoring.
The finding of fraud is significant because Login.gov began offering identity proofing aligned with National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements in October 2024. By March 2025, GSA had completed testing of remote IAL2 identity proofing and made it available to all users. IAL2 is intended to establish that an applicant is associated with a specific real-world identity.
Shufti launches Shufti AI suite to help build custom KYC journeys, query compliance data instantly, and run live verification checks directly inside AI agents
Autonomous AI agents are changing digital identity, pushing platforms to verify not just people but delegated authority, behavior and trusted actions.
On-device AI extracts passport and ID data from blurred, angled and low-quality images, reducing repeat captures during remote identity verification.
Constitutional council says curbs infringe freedom of expression and privacy as president vows to rework legislation
Sumsub has launched real-time Bank Account Verification in South Africa, leveraging SARB infrastructure to verify account ownership instantly without requiring documents or screen-scraping.
The OpenID Foundation has completed conformance testing for OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI, enabling self-certification for identity systems.
Worldline and Lissi have launched a joint platform to help banks integrate EU digital identity wallets ahead of 2027 deadlines.
National rollout standardizes forensic document examination across 27 federal laboratories as document fraud grows more sophisticated.
Combined awards position the company across document authentication, biometric verification and identity resolution for the federal identity platform.
The U.S. Treasury announced on August 11 that FinCEN is permanently exempting U.S. companies and U.S. persons from beneficial ownership reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act and will delete previously reported information, while foreign reporting companies remain subject to narrower requirements involving foreign beneficial owners.
