Biometric Update

Biometrics providers race to meet demand as ID, age verification expand

Biometric identity verification is evolving to serve an ever-wider range of interactions to address fraud, online safety and ...
The Manila Times

Nexa Cards Enters Acquisition Discussions with OX Agency to Enhance AI-Based Identity and Security Capabilities

Nexa Cards, a global fintech company providing crypto-enabled and reloadable stored-value card solutions, announced today ...

Medicare Update: New ID Verification Coming for Seniors Next Year

The new ID update aims to reduce fraud and streamline Medicare processes online. ID.me announced its new contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to streamline processes on ...
Biometric Update

Credence ID joins Identis Group to bridge physical and digital identity

Italy-based Identis Group has made a strategic investment in Credence ID to enable its expansion into high-growth digital ...

New Joint Initiative to Tackle Core Identity Challenge For The Global Precious Metals Industry

SMX, FinGo & Bougainville Refinery Ltd to Deliver Verifiable Identification for Gold NEW YORK, NY; PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND LONDON, GB / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / SMX (Security ...

SMX Expands Precious Metals Strategy Through New Identity Infrastructure Partnerships

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / The digital revolution promised transparency for commodities. Gold proved that the endpoint was more difficult to reach through pure ambition. The ...

Why Sovereign-Aligned Markets Are Forcing a Rethink of Gold Verification

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Gold does not change easily. Its rules, rituals, and trust frameworks have been built over centuries, reinforced by habit as much as by law. When ...

From NTA’s facial recognition to Aadhar verification by UPSC: How Indian exams are hardening identity checks, step by step

India's National Testing Agency will introduce facial recognition and live photo checks for major exams like NEET and JEE ...
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Medicare.gov to require digital ID verification for seniors in 2026

Beginning in early 2026, a major change for people accessing their accounts on Medicare.gov will occur through identity verification using ID.me and CLEAR. This change is a piece of a larger update by ...

SMX and Partners Push Gold Compliance Out of the Back Office and Into the Supply Chain

For much of its history, compliance in the gold industry lived at the end of the process. Gold was sourced, refined, and traded first. Documentation followed. Audits came later. Trust was assumed ...

Crypto heads into 2026 with privacy, decentralized identity on the line

From Ethereum experiments to Big Tech rollouts, decentralized identity in 2025 highlighted how selective disclosure and privacy-first verification are gaining ground.

SMX Mission To Provide Gold Verified Identity Advances With Two New Industry Alliances

For centuries, gold's value rested on weight, purity, and trust. In modern markets, those attributes are no longer sufficient on their own. Gold is increasingly being treated not just as a commodity, ...