Tag: identity verification

Fourthline-Veridas deal reshapes global identity compliance

Fourthline, the Amsterdam-headquartered identity verification and compliance specialist, has agreed a merger with Veridas, an international digital identity provider, in a move designed to...

Vikar embeds Plaid to speed up account funding

Vikar Technologies, a provider of unified account opening, lending, KYC/KYB, treasury and wealth management solutions for community banks and credit unions, has formed a...

Why iDenfy is betting on Austria’s Handy-Signatur for KYC

iDenfy, a global RegTech firm focused on identity verification and fraud prevention, has integrated Handy-Signatur, Austria's long-running mobile identity and e-signature credential, into its...

eIDAS 2.0 deadlines loom: two tracks, one trust chain

Halfway through 2026, eIDAS 2.0 has shifted from a regulation to monitor into a deadline to hit. By December 2026, every EU Member State...

Kord raises £6.4m to fight AI fraud in regulated sectors

Kord, a UK-headquartered FinTech offering a single platform for client onboarding, identity checks and payments, has closed a £6.4m Series A round to tackle...

Three blind spots that could derail QTSPs before 2027

Qualified trust service providers (QTSPs) are under no illusions about what 2027 will bring. Awareness of the eIDAS 2.0 deadlines is not the issue....

Why legacy fraud tools are failing UK FinTechs

The fraud landscape confronting UK FinTechs has transformed dramatically, with synthetic identity fraud, account takeover attacks, mule accounts and AI-generated documentation now commonplace. Yet, according...

Signicat taps TrustTech ahead of eIDAS 2.0 shake-up

Signicat has joined forces with TrustTech to enable regulated businesses to adopt reusable identity through private wallet ecosystems. The alliance brings together Signicat's digital identity...

Why liveness detection is key to stopping synthetic ID fraud

Synthetic identity fraud is emerging as one of the more difficult threats for digital onboarding teams to detect, precisely because it does not resemble...

Hopae adds DigiLocker and PAN to single API

Hopae has made India's two principal digital identity systems accessible through its Hopae Connect API, bringing the country's 1.45 billion-strong enrolled population within reach...

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