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 Grok controversy has triggered coordinated regulatory scrutiny across the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), and multiple other jurisdictions, signalling growing global focus on generative deepfakes as a platform governance and child-safety issue.
Financial services firms operate in an environment where identity verification sits at the center of revenue generation and risk management, yet 66% reported that verification technologies produce inconsistent results, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence reports.
Regula has launched an Age Verification Knowledge Hub that provides a decision framework to help organizations design, implement, and justify age-verification approaches under increasing regulatory scrutiny.
MyDigital ID partners 15 banks and fintechs to roll out real-time NRD-linked identity verification across Malaysia’s financial sector. The participating organisations are Maybank, CIMB Bank, Public Bank, RHB Bank, Hong Leong Bank, AmBank, Bank Islam, Boost Bank, KAF Digital Bank, RytBank, Touch ‘n Go Digital, ShopeePay, Atome, Kale Technology and Finexus.
Lawmakers are aiming to add guardrails to the most addictive social media sites when it comes to usage by kids. But privacy and civil rights advocates are warning of significant unintended consequences.
The IDV firm has partnered with fintech Two to integrate digital identity verification directly into transactions between business buyers and sellers.
Nishan Pakistan is a web-based portal that will enable government and authorized private sector organizations to onboard their services and verify identities.
Mitek Systems announced enhancements to its SEPBLAC-compliant digital onboarding capabilities for the Spanish market.
Rabat, The Gulf Observer: Morocco has signed eight cooperation agreements bringing together public institutions and private-sector partners to launch Idarati X.0, a new phase in the country’s efforts to modernize public administration through advanced digital tools.
The Nepal Digital Transformation Project will invest in digital platforms including an integrated online citizen service portal and an integrated social registry; a secure government-wide data exchange; and a digital locker to manage verifiable credentials and digital wallet.
Apple says the following states will be adding driver’s license or state ID to Apple Wallet IDs but no dates have been set for implementation: Arkansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia.
Identity verification company Entrust has launched a security partnership with Google amid a rapid rise in sophisticated identity fraud.
