Secure biometric identity firm Imprimerie Nationale Group plans to showcase its offering of components, products, digital services at world-leading next generation identity event SDW 2017.

Entrust Datacard launches authentication cloud service with Mobile Smart Credential technology.

The Secure Identity Alliance (SIA), the global identity and secure eServices advisory body, plans to launch a new initiative to help issuers and manufacturers evaluate the integrity and effectiveness of current and planned secure eDocument physical security design features, at SDW 2017.

Identity solutions firm Accenture is working with Microsoft on a digital identity initiative that uses blockchain and biometrics.

The Secure Identity Alliance will showcase a report on the practical realities of establishing identity and improving border control effectiveness in a new paper at SDW 2017.

TFTC gives regulatory clearance to the acquisition by Qualcomm River Holdings of NXP Semiconductors.

Entrust Datacard enters technology collaboration with VMware.

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that it will assess biometric checkpoint screening technology at one PreCheck lane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International and one at Denver International, beginning this week.

Gemalto launches access management and identity protection service.

Biometric boarding specialist CLEAR has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued it a Notice of Allowance related to a patent application covering biometric boarding pass technologies.

Precise Biometrics’ algorithm solution integrated in MeReals biometric smart card V2, as part of a cooperation with Fingerprint Cards.

East Timor government to start issuing ePassports to its citizens. 

Following an application for its NSL Valid8 services to be included on the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace, NSL has confirmed both its self-service and managed service identity checking solutions have been assessed and accepted onto the latest G Cloud framework.

Bahrain's Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication has chosen Thales and SITA to provide the airport security and operations management system. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun trialling biometric technology evaluation aimed at improving the agency’s ability to verify and track the departure of foreign nationals at Washington Dulles Airport. 

Oberthur Technologies and Safran Identity & Security (Morpho) joining forces to create OT-Morpho.

Empowering e-government by shifting to smart cards is accelerating the arrival of a new era of mobile identity and electronic documents.

In this white paper, Hewlett Packard details an enterprise approach to mobile eID based on hardware tokens in microSD cards.

Citizen ID documents such as national IDs and driver licenses will ultimately follow the trend toward mobility.

To enable public administrations, companies and citizens to freely interact while retaining their formal relationships of liability, there needs to be a progressive development in the use of "digital trust" services.

Next-generation government and citizen identity event SDW 2017 has revealed that speaker proposals are now being accepted for its 11th edition.

secunet Security Networks has published the final set of test results from the SDW InterOp 2016 event held in London in May 2016.

More than 100 companies have already reserved stands for next-generation government identity solutions event SDW 2017, which will be held on 26-28 June, 2017 in the QEII Centre in London.

The organisers of SDW InterOp 2016 would like to, in the strongest terms, clarify that any vendor claims being made surrounding the reading speed of ePassports is not in any way an official result of the tests.