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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Japan will launch the new Specified Residence Card in June 2026, combining Residence Card and My Number functions while moving sensitive immigration details to a secure IC chip. Learn eligibility requirements, key features, and impacts for foreign residents.
The collaboration is aimed at addressing rising cases of identity fraud in higher education, including synthetic identities, so-called ghost students and financial aid fraud.
Semperis has acquired MightyID to extend its identity-first security and cyber resilience strategy beyond Active Directory and Entra ID into Okta and Ping.
Eastern Caribbean nation St. Lucia has launched a centralized national identity management system which it calls the National Authentication Framework (NAF).
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.
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.
AI-enabled “ghost student” scams are siphoning millions in federal financial aid by exploiting weak, document-based identity verification systems at U.S. colleges. While the Department of Education has tightened ID checks, Congress should establish interoperable, high-assurance digital IDs to prevent fraud at scale and ensure aid reaches real students.
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.
Bright Pattern, a provider of AI-powered contact center software, announced that IDnow identity verification platform in Europe has selected the Bright Pattern Contact Center platform to fully replace its legacy Contact Center environment. IDnow verifies more than 115 million identities per year, for more than 600 customers and more than 215 international issuing authorities.
OAuth redirection is being repurposed as a phishing delivery path. Trusted authentication flows are weaponized to move users from legitimate sign‑in pages to attacker‑controlled infrastructure.
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.
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.
