Global
SailPoint has launched Agentic Fabric, a new platform designed to help enterprises secure AI agents and other non-human identities at scale. The company said organisations increasingly face governance challenges as autonomous AI agents gain access to cloud systems, applications and enterprise data without consistent oversight or accountability. Agentic Fabric extends SailPoint’s identity governance model beyond human users, combining discovery, visibility, governance, authorisation and protection for AI-driven identities within a unified platform.
United Kingdom
The City of London Corporation has invited technology firms to help develop a new digital verification infrastructure aimed at combating fraud across the UK financial sector. The proposed voluntary verification orchestrator would allow consumers to verify their identity once with a trusted provider and securely reuse that verification across multiple financial organisations. The City Corporation estimates the initiative could unlock nearly £5 billion in economic benefits over five years through fraud prevention and digital modernisation.
United States
Researchers at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society have unveiled Keyring, an open-source digital identity wallet designed to reduce reliance on centralised identity systems. The wallet allows users to store credentials locally on mobile devices and selectively disclose only the information necessary for verification, such as age or email ownership. The platform uses biometric authentication stored directly on-device and supports decentralised peer-to-peer identity verification without intermediaries.
South Africa
South Africa has opened public consultation on draft regulations that could establish a national Digital Identity system allowing citizens to access official documents directly from smartphones. The proposed framework would create digital versions of identity cards, birth certificates and marriage certificates while also enabling remote biometric identity verification.
India
Google has expanded Google Wallet support for Aadhaar credentials through its partnership with the Unique Identification Authority of India. Users can now store Aadhaar verifiable credentials directly in Google Wallet and use them for identity verification across multiple services and partner platforms.
India is also continuing to scale its Aadhaar-linked AgriStack farmer identity infrastructure with support from KPMG. More than 127 million farmers have reportedly been onboarded, supporting direct benefit transfer payments and digital agriculture initiatives under the country’s Digital Agriculture Mission.
Australia
The Australian Government has allocated AU$654.3 million over four years to support the country’s Digital ID system under the Digital ID Act 2024. Funding will support myID operations, regulatory oversight, privacy protection and Digital ID infrastructure across government services including myGov, Centrelink and the Australian Taxation Office.
The investment also includes funding for enhanced liveness detection and fraud prevention capabilities designed to counter threats such as deepfake-enabled identity fraud. According to the government, more than 15 million Digital IDs had been created by December 2025.
France
France Identité has released its digital identity sandbox on iOS, allowing iPhone users to test the same mobile identity and age verification flows already available on Android. The sandbox supports OpenID for Verifiable Presentations (OID4VP) and is designed to enable privacy-preserving age verification where users can prove they meet age requirements without revealing wider identity information.
Jordan
Jordan’s Sanad now has full legal equivalence to Jordan’s physical national ID card following amendments to the country’s Civil Status Law. Public bodies and private-sector organisations are now legally required to accept the digital identity credential for formal transactions including banking and telecoms services. The Sanad app currently supports more than 500 online services and has more than 2.6 million activated users.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has launched the Public-Impact Champions Network (PIC-Net), a government-wide initiative aimed at accelerating digital transformation across ministries, state-owned enterprises and provincial councils. The programme will appoint digital transformation teams across 95 government institutions to improve technology adoption, digital service delivery and organisational change management.
Global
New international research from ClarityCheck suggests most internet users support stronger online safety protections but remain resistant to handing over identity documents or biometric data to digital platforms. The survey of more than 17,400 adults across the US, UK, Australia, Europe and Latin America found that 74 percent support stronger online safety measures, but 63 percent would not upload government-issued ID or biometric data to access online services. Researchers said the findings point to growing decentralisation of online trust, with users increasingly relying on their own verification methods rather than platform-led identity systems.
United Kingdom
Credas said digital identity verification pass rates have risen to 89.3 percent, while the proportion of cases requiring manual review has fallen to between three and four percent. The company’s data, based on millions of checks between 2023 and 2026, suggests businesses are increasingly automating onboarding and compliance workflows while reducing human intervention. Credas also noted that passports and driving licences continue to account for around 99 percent of identity documents used during digital verification checks.
United Kingdom
Following this week’s King’s Speech confirming plans for a voluntary national digital ID scheme, ID Card Centre warned that digital identity systems are unlikely to fully replace physical credentials.
The company said online searches for “Digital ID” rose by 212 percent in the day after the announcement, reflecting growing public interest in how the proposed system could work in practice.
Managing director Ben O’Brien argued that most organisations are instead moving toward hybrid identity models combining digital and physical credentials. “There’s a perception that Digital ID means the end of physical credentials, but that’s not what we’re seeing in practice,” he said.
The comments come after ministers confirmed plans for a Digital Access to Services Bill that would create powers for a voluntary digital ID scheme, following the government’s earlier decision to abandon mandatory digital IDs for right-to-work checks.
