Acuant, a leading global provider of identity verification solutions today announced a partnership with the Ceevo Group to streamline its customer onboarding process and offer immediate ID proofing. 

Citizens of Japan, Singapore and South Korea — three countries with the most powerful passports — can enter 190/189 out of 218 countries visa-free, according to the Henley Passport Index 2019 by Henley & Partners, a global citizenship and residence advisory firm.

Fijians living in Europe can apply for ePassports on the continent following the establishment of the electronic passport processing services at the Fijian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

Swiss security technology specialist Orell Füssli has acquired a stake in e-government solution provider Procivis

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

 The organisers of the industry-leading identity event, after a great deal of deliberation, and given current world circumstances surrounding COVID-19, have taken the decision to postpone Identity Week 2020 to the second half of the year.

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

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat has met with French IDEMIA CEO Yann Delabrière

ArcBlock, a leading blockchain development platform, and decentralized identity provider has launched its new “I DID IT” initiative

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.

As part of its corporate venture capital activities, Covestro invests in the French technical start-up company Crime Science Technology (C.S.T)

A new White Paper, which examines the implications of the transition from physical to digital security documents, has been published by Reconnaissance International.

The UK's Home Office has advised that new blue passport design will start being issued from March 2020.

Kenya's Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government has extended the deadline for a move to second generation ePassports.

An expert’s guide to using the paper elements of a passport.

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

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