Jamaica
Jamaica is begun rolling out a digital national ID system
The national ID comes with certain benefits since it has an digital identity verification feature, which the prime minister highlighted. For those opening bank accounts, for example, the card has the ability to verify identity on the spot, eliminating the need to present two or more forms of identification.
The NIDS pilot project starts with 300 Jamaicans, and from January onward the initiative will open to the public, with biometric enrolment centers across Jamaica as well as mobile units to serve those in rural areas.
New Zealand
The New Zealand government has finalised its Digital Identity Services Trust Framework, kickstarting the country’s push to roll out a suite of digital identity services.
The framework establishes the rules and regulations that accredited digital identity services must follow, including ensuring privacy and security. It aims to give people control over their information.
Specific services expected to emerge include a digital driving licence, bank ID and trade certification, according to Global Government Forum.
Asia-Pacific
Aware is advancing its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region. The company recently announced a collaboration with Finema, a digital identity technology company based in Thailand, to deliver biometric digital identity tools across the Asia-Pacific market. The partnership aims to leverage Aware’s face, voice, and fingerprint recognition biometric modalities and Finema’s presence in the region to address the demand for scalable identity verification.
United Kingdom
UK-based self-sovereign digital identity and payment platform Nuggets has launched two new solutions. With the two products, Private Personal AI and Verified Identity for AI for Agents, Nuggets aims to deliver “a comprehensive framework for safe, private, and verifiable interactions between humans and AI systems.” In addition, the products work towards allowing the development of sovereign digital identities for AI agents.
Global
Latest figures project the global digital identity market grow from $63.5 Billion in 2023 to $428.2 Billion by 2032, exhibiting an annual growth rate of 23.6 percent, according to Market Research Future (MRFR).
The company said the digital identity market presents significant opportunities, particularly in emerging technologies like biometrics, AI-driven identity verification, and decentralised identity solutions using blockchain.
Switzerland
Swiss authorities are implementing an advanced digital ID verification system through a strategic partnership between Checkport Switzerland and Regula. They aim to address the growing challenge of inadmissible passenger management at major Swiss airports.
The initiative centres on the MatchBox application that integrates Regula Document Reader SDK for automated document verification. The system automates document checks during online check-in, ensuring passengers meet immigration requirements before boarding.
The solution aims to mitigate the financial and logistical burdens airlines face under INAD regulations, which govern inadmissible passengers. Airlines are penalised when passengers are denied entry at their destination due to invalid documentation, with fines and repatriation costs presenting significant challenges.
Canada
Credit union credit card issuer Collabria Financial Services has teamed up with digital identity verification fintech Trulioo. The Canada-based card issuer will leverage Trulioo to streamline the verification process for new cardholders.
Trulioo will fully automate Collabria’s Know Your Business (KYB) review process, complementing its existing Know Your Client (KYC) workflows. Collabria serves 98 percent of Canadian credit unions.
Global
Fraudsters are using deepfake technology with growing frequency to help them bypass digital identity verification checks, Entrust has warned.
The Entrust Onfido 2025 Identity Fraud Report claims that deepfakes now comprise 24 percent of fraudulent attempts to pass motion-based biometrics checks, which are used by banks and other service providers to authenticate users, reports InfoSecurity Magazine.
These typically feature a form of “active liveness” that requires the user to engage in a task and are therefore harder to fake. However, the growing accessibility and sophistication of face swap apps and generative AI (gen AI) is playing into the hands of the fraudsters, the report claimed.
Deepfakes are used far less (five percent) in attempts to bypass more basic selfie-based authentication mechanisms, according to the report. However, Entrust claimed to have recorded a deepfake attack on average once every five minutes in 2024.
Europe
Wallet experts are being rallied to join an Ad Hoc Working Group, which will be launched by ENISA with enough support to develop the EU Digital Identity Wallets Cybersecurity Certification.
The call gauges interest in establishing the working group to support the development of a cybersecurity certification scheme for EUDI Wallets. ENISA – which stands for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity – was contacted by the European Commission earlier this year to prepare a candidate certification scheme amid the EU’s push for compliance and conception of EU digital ID wallets per member state, as per Identity Week.
United Kingdom
Shufti is introducing a portable digital identity solution to speed up compliant authentication and make transactions simpler for consumers with face biometrics.
The new Fast ID speeds up authentication by combining selfie biometrics with reusable digital identity. End users signing up for an account or service with a company using Shufti’s KYC identity verification can save their credentials for what the company says will be “seamless” use in future sessions.
Those future identity verification sessions could be for account onboarding, session authentication or step-up authentication, providing KYC and AML compliance, with any participating partner site. Fast ID can also replace passwords and OTPs, the company said.
Ireland
Stores across Ireland can now use AI to estimate someone’s age with ‘almost 100 percent accuracy’, with a new partnership between Dublin’s Johnston Retail Services and SafetyTech company Privately SA.
Privately’s AgeAI app provides facial age estimation, removing guesswork from age checks and mitigating the risk of fines for selling vapes to children. It is anonymous, with no images transmitted or stored, GDPR certified, and helps protect staff by reducing the need for unnecessary ID checks for adults, which can be a source of conflict.
