Global
The International Organization for Migration has released the IOM Digital Identity Toolkit to help decision-makers and policymakers to have a better understanding of key concepts of digital identity.
The 135-page document is designed to strengthen stakeholders’ understanding of how to establish and implement digital identity systems, focusing on human rights, privacy, security and key technological considerations.
Its contents include sections on identity management and biometrics, different types of identity credentials, functionality of digital ID applications, business models and financing. It also goes into depth on use cases of digital identity – such as government and private sector use cases – and challenges, along with detailed elaboration on multiple factors related to project set-up and implementation of digital identity.
Tanzania
The Tanzanian government has allocated 11.34 billion Tanzanian Shillings (approximately US$4.5 million) for a digital ID pilot targeting nearly 300,000 minors in three of the country’s regions.
Although the exact period for the pilot has not been released, it will be conducted ahead of an envisaged nationwide digital ID rollout during the 2026/2027 financial year, IPP Media reports.
The pilot is part of a plan to put in place a unified digital ID system or the Unique Number ID which will be issued to all citizens below the age of 18 as well as to foreign minors in the country. The pilot will target 235,826 minors in Zanzibar and the Iringa and Mbeya regions.
Nigeria
Nigeria has announced a new presidential committee dedicated to implementing the nation’s DPI goals and its three main pillars – digital identity, financial payments and data exchange.
The Presidential Committee on the Implementation of DPI is chaired by President Bola Tinubu and includes representatives from the federal government, civil service, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and several ministries. NIMC Director General Abisoye Coker-Odusote pledged that the commission would improve the quality of life for Nigerians through digital infrastructure.
Other representatives promised to unify government databases to allow seamless data exchange and solve challenges in identity management and financial payments. NIMC is currently working with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) to link national ID numbers with bank verification numbers for more secure and efficient transactions.
Greece
New Greek Digital ID cards are to feature a personal ID number for citizens. The Personal Identification Number (PIN) will be assigned once, at birth, and will serve as the unique identifier for all future interactions with public services. According to government sources, the move aims to significantly speed up and enhance the security of identity verification processes across public sector bodies.
Under the new system, each identity card will be required to display a unique personal number, which will also be stored in the digital chip embedded in the ID card.
Malawi
Malawi is preparing to implement a nationwide digital identity wallet system by 2026, enabling citizens to access and verify their national identification through smartphones. The initiative follows a successful pilot programme by the National Registration Bureau (NRB) and aims to enhance access to essential services across the country. The digital ID development comes as Malawi also prepares to launch biometric SIM card registration in 2025.
United Kingdom
Safety Tech company Privately SA says it processes almost 300,000 age checks monthly using its privacy-preserving solutions, AgeAI (offline) and FaceAssure (online).
Deployed in more than 90 countries, including the UK, US, France, and Australia, Privately’s solutions are anonymous, AI-powered facial age estimation tools that provide “compliant and frictionless” age checks. They require no ID uploads, no additional apps, and do not store any biometric data.
Privately’s SaeftyTech is in use by organisations such as BBC, Samsung, Vodafone and Save the Children, and is currently being trialled by major gaming studios and social platforms. While AgeAI is installed in around 80 retail locations across the UK ,France and the US, FaceAssure is being rolled out by leading gaming and social media platforms as well as for Australia’s national age assurance trials.
Germany / United States
Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), a security technology company based in Germany, has entered into a global partnership with Daon, a digital identity firm headquartered in the US.
The agreement will see the companies collaborate across various sectors and technologies, with a focus on improving identity verification and biometric authentication.
The partnership aims to integrate Daon’s digital identity capabilities with G+D’s existing portfolio, strengthening the security of solutions offered to clients in banking, financial technology, telecommunications, and public sector digital identity programmes.
This includes initiatives such as electronic ID schemes, mobile driving licenses, and broader digital identity systems.
United States
Strivacity, a provider of modern customer identity and access management (CIAM) solutions, is partnering with identity security services firm, IDMWORKS, to help organisations modernise and secure customer onboarding and sign-in journeys.
Strivacity’s unified CIAM platform consolidates capabilities including registration, identity verification, fraud detection, consent management, and adaptive access, as well as provides a customer insights dashboard. Business and security teams gain real-time visibility into how customers engage with onboarding and sign-in flows – enabling them to identify drop-offs, optimise experiences, and make data-driven decisions without heavy engineering involvement.
United Kingdom
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published guidance for government bodies on how to use the future GOV.UK Wallet.
The document says the GOV.UK Wallet – which will include government issued documents on a smartphone – will make it easier for the public to access and share them with government and private sector organisations.
Initially only central government organisations will be able to add a document to the wallet, but others in the public sector will be able to use the information.
Documents added to it will be bound to the user’s GOV.UK One Login sign-in, and will be stored on the smartphone. They can be used to prove identity, eligibility for a service, suitability in processes such as checks needed for jobs, and to show qualifications.
The first document to be stored on it – planned for this summer – will be the Armed Forces Veteran Card.
Hong Kong
Visa with ZA Bank is launching Click to Pay in Hong Kong, with eleven more markets to follow, as it also rolls out Visa Payment Passkey globally.
ZA Bank is a Hong Kong digital bank and is enabling cardholders in Hong Kong to use Visa Click to Pay to complete online transactions in seconds. Click to Pay removes the need to manually enter details such as the 16-digit card number, passwords, or Personal Account Number (PAN).
Cardholders are able to set up a Visa Payment Passkey using their mobile device’s biometric capability and use the Passkey for future payment authentication at participating ecommerce sites.
Japan
NASDAQ-listed global financial services company StoneX Group Inc. has adopted Liquid’s LIQUID eKYC platform for its Japanese subsidiary, StoneX Securities Co., Ltd. The implementation will be used to verify customer identities during account openings for FOREX.com, StoneX’s FX and CFD trading platform in Japan.
The company cited the platform’s advanced image recognition AI, which delivers real-time feedback to users on document capture quality – flagging issues such as low brightness or poor framing – as a key reason for the switch. StoneX expects the upgrade to approximately double account opening completion rates by reducing user drop-offs during the verification process.
Europe
The European Commission has launched a call for contributions to help shape regulations for the European Business Wallet, a planned digital identity platform designed to streamline cross-border operations for companies across EU member states. The public consultation is open until June 12, 2025, with the final regulation expected in the fourth quarter of the year.
Announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on January 29, 2025, as part of the EU’s Competitiveness Compass strategy, the European Business Wallet is intended to unify how businesses verify their credentials and interact with public administrations. The system builds on the European Digital Identity Framework and the eIDAS 2 proposal, both aimed at standardizing digital identity systems across the bloc.
