The World Bank said its Board has approved a 50 million U.S. dollar Sri Lanka Digital Transformation Project intended to increase the use of digital services by people and businesses and to improve ...

Matica Fintec S.p.A. has agreed to acquire an initial 51 percent stake in Credence ID LLC, a biometric and digital identity provider based in Oakland, California. The structure gives Matica immediate ...

US lawmakers are pointing to mobile digital identity and device biometrics as practical tools to reduce fraud and online scams. Representative Bill Foster of Illinois and Representative Dan Meuser of ...

New reporting from ITV News says senior UK civil servants working on the government’s GOV.UK One Login programme have raised serious concerns about the system’s security posture. One Login is the ...

Beyond self-certification, the OpenID Foundation reiterated plans to introduce accreditation services in the second quarter of 2026, describing a phased approach that starts with open testing and ...

Belgian Mobile ID says itsme has acquired iDIN, the Dutch online identification service operated by Currence, in a deal the parties frame as a step toward broader European digital identity ...

Yubico has appointed chief operating officer Jerrod Chong as acting CEO following the departure of Mattias Danielsson from the top role, according to a company press release dated December 16, 2025.

Tether has led an $8 million Series A round for Speed, a payments platform built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The company says Speed supports near-instant payments using bitcoin as well as USDT ...

iProov says a mobile KYC attack scenario developed by its internal red team has been accepted as a case study in MITRE ATLAS, the threat knowledge base focused on adversarial techniques against ...

CLEAR has introduced CLEAR ID, a free digital identity option designed for use at U.S. Transportation Security Administration checkpoints. The company says travelers can create the credential in the ...

According to Signicat, the implementation will rely on its ReadID technology to verify identity by reading the secure NFC chip in passports, national ID cards, and residence permits. Signicat says the ...

Apple has shipped iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 with security updates it says are especially important for users who may be targeted. In its December 12, 2025 release notes, Apple says two WebKit ...