United Kingdom
Pubs, bars, restaurants and off-licences in England and Wales can now accept digital proof of age for alcohol sales, giving customers an alternative to showing a passport or driving licence.
The change allows customers to use an accepted digital ID to demonstrate that they are over 18 without disclosing additional personal information, such as their name or address. Digital ID is optional, and physical identification remains valid. Digital IDs must be certified against the UK government’s Digital Verification Services trust framework.
As licensed businesses prepare to accept digital age checks, Yoti has announced partnerships with Diebold Nixdorf, Flooid, StrongPoint, Kestronics and Zebra Technologies to integrate verification into point-of-sale and self-checkout systems. Yoti said more than 15,000 businesses had also downloaded its free ID Checker app ahead of the change.
Malawi
Malawi has announced the launch of its Nzika Digital ID Wallet, giving citizens a mobile option for carrying and presenting government-issued identity credentials.
The initial release is set to include a digital national ID, birth certificate and marriage certificate. Users will need an existing national identity record and must complete a liveness check during enrolment. Malawians living abroad will also be able to register if their details are held in the national database.
The wallet is intended to supplement, rather than replace, physical documents. It builds on Malawi’s national ID programme, which has enrolled more than nine million people since 2017, and is planned for a nationwide rollout rather than a region-by-region launch.
United Kingdom
Think Digital Partners runs its yearly Digital Identity and Cybersecurity for Government conference on September 30th. With speakers from across both central and local government this looks like being a brilliant event. You can register your place here.
Cyprus
Cyprus has launched an open tender to upgrade its Digital Citizen mobile app and integrate the country’s European Digital Identity Wallet.
The existing app allows citizens aged 14 and over to use their CY Login credentials to obtain electronic copies of official documents. The contract will cover new app functions, implementation of the national wallet under eIDAS 2.0 and the interfaces needed to connect organisations that issue and accept electronic attestations of attributes.
The tender has an estimated value of €9.78 million, excluding VAT, and also covers maintenance, technical support and user assistance. Bids are due by 13 October, with the contract set to run for 60 months.
Estonia
Estonia’s e-Residency programme has reported a 36 percent increase in company formation compared with the same period last year, with e-residents establishing more than 4,200 businesses so far in 2026.
Eight in ten new e-resident companies are founded by entrepreneurs who joined the programme in the same or previous year. Estonia has welcomed 9,000 new e-residents this year, and 34 percent of those who joined in the first two months have already started a business.
The programme generated €57.6 million in direct state income during the first seven months of 2026, including labour taxes, dividend tax and state fees. Since its launch, more than 144,000 people from 187 countries have become e-residents, founding or co-founding over 43,600 companies.
Canada
Facephi has received certification under the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework’s Verified Person Component at Level of Assurance 2 (LOA2), following an independent third-party audit.
The certification, awarded by the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), covers how Facephi’s identity verification service establishes and confirms a person’s claimed identity. The service has been added to DIACC’s Trusted List, allowing organisations to check its certification status.
Facephi combines document and biometric verification with behavioural signals, fraud detection and compliance screening. The company says its platform is designed to help institutions address identity-related risks beyond the initial account-opening check.
Germany
Germany has confirmed that its government-backed digital identity wallet, d-you, is scheduled to launch on 2 January 2027.
The free, voluntary app will allow users to hold and present verified identity information on their phones. Planned uses include proving age, opening bank accounts and signing legally binding contracts. Credential data will be encrypted and stored on the user’s device, with users choosing what information to share during each transaction.
Around 40 public- and private-sector partners are preparing services for the launch, including government authorities, banks, universities and Deutsche Post. Germany has also opened a European Digital Identity Wallet sandbox to test identity data and service connections ahead of the public rollout.
Global
Radiant Logic has expanded its partnership with SailPoint and announced a SailPoint-Certified Technology Integration designed to bring identity data from across an organisation into a unified system.
The integration combines Radiant Logic’s identity data platform with SailPoint Identity Security. It is designed to consolidate information from enterprise applications, resources and directories, covering human, non-human and AI agent identities, so that SailPoint can use the data for identity governance and access decisions.
Radiant Logic said the integration can reduce onboarding time for custom applications to as little as two days per application and support migration from legacy, on-premises identity governance systems.
Nigeria
Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to extend National Identification Number coverage to as much as 95 percent of the population by the end of 2026.
Speaking through his chief of staff at an International Identity Day event on 16 September, Tinubu urged NIMC to accelerate enrolment through its ward-level registration drive. NIN enrolment has reached approximately 142 million, according to the announcement.
The digital identity project is supported by the World Bank, European Investment Bank and French Development Agency. A revision to the project in 2024 set a target of issuing 180 million digital IDs.
Moldova
Four banks in Moldova now accept digital identity credentials through EVO, the country’s integrated government app.
Moldindconbank, FinComBank, EuroCreditBank and Victoriabank allow customers to identify themselves by scanning a QR code and consenting to share the information requested by the bank. The process enables verified attributes to be transferred digitally rather than requiring customers to present or photocopy physical identity documents.
Moldova’s eGovernance Agency said 30 organisations are at different stages of connecting to EVO, with at least 20 expected to be operationally integrated by the end of 2026. The country is also testing interoperability with European digital identity formats as it develops the wallet in line with the EU framework.
Global
Blackdot Solutions has partnered with District 4 Labs to integrate identity intelligence from the latter’s DARKSIDE service into Blackdot’s Videris investigations platform.
The integration gives government and law enforcement investigators access to information drawn from compromised records and deep- and dark-web sources alongside other intelligence available through Videris. The companies say it will support identity resolution, account attribution and analysis of connections between people, organisations and digital identities.
Videris includes an audit trail that logs queries, which the companies say will help investigative teams document their use of breach and leak data.
