Estonia signs SK ID as mobile digital ID provider after search for alternatives
Estonia’s government has inked a five-year contract for digital identity application Mobile-ID with company SK ID, completing a search that…
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Certn nets $50M investment for biometric background screening
Certn has raised US$50 million in a series B round to invest in its product line, which verifies identities with face…
Checkout.com buying biometric ID verification startup ubble to secure online payments
British cloud payments company Checkout.com wants strong ID verification and more security from fraud for its clients, and it thinks…
Avarta brings biometric digital wallet to Indonesian crypto exchange collaboration
Avarta, a decentralized finance and identity firm that offers a cryptocurrency wallet secured with biometrics from FaceTec, will work with…
Plurilock biometrics secure Amazon WorkSpaces; $1.4M in sales for subsidiary
Plurilock’s zero-trust cybersecurity solution with biometrics will be available for Amazon WorkSpaces virtual sessions, the company said. It also confirmed…
Apple granted patent for under-display optical biometric sensor
Apple has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an under-display bundling of…
US digital ID fraud cost $52B in 2021, Javelin estimates
Forty-two million Americans were victims of digital identity fraud last year, according to new research, costing billions. Pandemic-related shifts to…
ProofID receives $18.5M investment, plans to expand Ping Identity delivery partnership
ProofID, an identity and access management service provider that integrates Ping Identity’s solution, received a £15 million (approximately $18.5 million) investment…
Identitypass raises $2.8M for biometric identity verification across Africa
Lagos-based Identitypass has raised $2.8 million in Seed funding, which the company says will help meet its goals of extending its…
Entersekt partners with SA bank on ecommerce security with NuData behavioral biometrics
South Africa’s Capitec Bank has deployed Entersekt‘s mobile identity authentication feature, EMV 3-D Secure, which integrates NuData Security’s behavioral biometrics….
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