Indian digital public infrastructure giant Protean launches IPO
Indian e-governance and digital public infrastructure company Protean eGov Technologies Limited launched its IPO for subscription on Monday. The IPO…
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Australia’s myGov digital ID lost $2B due to scams this year
The number of scams targeting Australia’s MyGov digital identity scheme has “increased dramatically,” with losses reaching AU$3.1 billion (US$2 billion)…
Age verification is rising and euConsent wants to be a global solution
As countries such as the UK, the U.S. and Australia have been introducing or considering age verification regulation, the European…
Taiwan issues new identity verification rules for financial industry
Taiwan has issued fresh guidelines for digital identity verification that should make it easier for financial institutions to verify customer…
SecureAuth reveals BeyondTrust behavioral biometrics integration, 3 new patents
SecureAuth has landed another partnership to help spread its passwordless authentication and behavioral biometrics. Privileged Access Management (PAM) provider BeyondTrust…
Bio-Key raises $3.75M, lands new government MFA client
Nasdaq-listed biometric authentication company BIO-key International announced on Tuesday the closing of its public offering of 21,430,000 units after reaching…
Oman holds first remote elections with biometric IDs from Tech5 and uqudo
Voters across the Sultanate of Oman electronically cast their votes on Sunday, choosing representatives to the lower house of the…
UK police minister calls for more live facial recognition
As police authorities in the United Kingdom search for more ways to include facial recognition in their work, the country’s…
Fingerprint Cards lands its biggest deal yet for optical under-display biometric sensors
Biometric sensor maker Fingerprint Cards announced it has bagged the largest order yet for its optical under-display sensors. An unnamed…
Regula ID scanning devices chosen by US university for forensic researcher training
Regula’s spectral comparator has been chosen by a U.S. university to train forensic scientists, while new scanners have been launched…
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