US President Trump on Monday said he will extend a October 1 deadline for people to apply for Real ID identification cards that enable citizens to board domestic flights in the United States.

Proxy, a provider of digital identities for the physical world, announced today that it has raised a $42M Series B funding round led by Scale Venture Partners

Royal Bank of Canada has developed a solution that gives clients the ability to digitally verify their identities when opening an account in branch

Elyctis and Kimaldi have decided to reinforce their partnership building upon the skills of both companies in order to expand onto new markets. 

SecureKey Technologies, a leader in identity and authentication solutions, today announces an innovative partnership with global identity verification provider, Onfido. 

Document Security Systems, a leader in anti-counterfeit, authentication and diversion protection technologies, announced that its platform serving the Government and Identification marketplace, will be introduced at the connect:ID Expo in Washington, D.C. on March 11 and 12, 2020

Scientists from India's CSIR-National Physical Laboratory have come with a security ink which can prevent fake printing of passports and counterfeiting of currency notes. 

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) began issuing the newly designed Texas driver licenses (DL), identification (ID) cards and license to carry (LTC) cards to all Texans.

iProov today announced that its facial authentication technology is the first to achieve international digital identity conformance certification and has gone live in Estonia’s state-certified digital identity programme.

Datasonic Group Bhd has been awarded a facial recognition e-gate supply contract worth RM6.97 million ($1.6mn) by the Malaysian Home Affairs Ministry, reports local media.

In its latest research into the global identity market, Goode Intelligence forecasts that the combined revenue opportunity for electronic identity and document verification (eIDV) and digital identity will be $27.38 billion by 2024.

NIC, an industry leader in providing innovative technology solutions for government, today introduced the latest addition to its Gov2Go platform

IN Groupe (formerly Imprimerie Nationale), a world specialist in identity and secure digital services, entered into a share purchase agreement, as of February 2020, to acquire Nexus. 

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