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 new feature is built into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) Identity Assurance service. The capability has been embedded directly within its cloud identity management system, allowing organisations to verify users through facial recognition as part of their authentication process.
Multiple countries in Latin America are adopting online safety regulations, making the region an area of focus for the next wave of global age assurance laws.
Cannabis technology provider Cure8 and identity verification firm IDScan.net have partnered to launch Flow Verify, a self-service kiosk designed to automate customer check-ins and document authentication for dispensaries.
Open Campus has partnered with Le & Associates and SKALE to launch a credential-driven job matching initiative in Vietnam to improve skill assessment and hiring
The new verifiable digital credential (VDC) spans physical, logical, and digital domains with embedded biometrics enables selective disclosure for data minimization.
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.
