Editor-in chief. Market intelligence and strategy expert, and long-year speaker, moderator. More than 15 years in global identity verification, age verification, and RegTech markets.
Posts by Per Henrikson:
Orbital Sumsub transaction monitoring enhances stablecoin and fiat oversight, delivering compliance, screening. The relationship enhances Orbital’s ability to monitor and manage both fiat and stablecoin transactions, bolstering compliance capabilities while delivering a more seamless and secure user experience.
The crucial milestones of France’s digital identity journey have resulted from a long history of failure and half-baked developments, demonstrating the real timeline it takes to build a working wallet from a modest state of digitalisation.
Louisiana residents can now present their LA Wallet mDL at TSA security checkpoints, federal buildings and courthouses for the next three years.
![Philippines issues $22M tender for national ID program management consultant]()
The estimated project cost is Php 1.28 billion. The PSA is the implementing agency and the private proponent is the Unisys Public Sector Services Corporation.
The Cabinet of Belize has given its greenlight for a countrywide rollout of a biometrics-based national digital ID system, which the government says will happen within the next three years.
A NEW AGE verification system which seeks to prevent children from accessing “adult-only” video content on sites such as Instagram and TikTok has come into place.
Global payment platform Stripe has announced the acquisition of Orum, a U.S.-based financial technology company specializing in payment orchestration and bank account verification.
Scotland’s digital identity service, ScotAccount, has launched its public beta, allowing a larger group of users to test the government service.
Roblox is starting age-estimation technology for users who want to chat more freely on the social-gaming platform as part of its new “trusted connections” feature.
Regula released a new embedded document reader, the Regula 7223E, built specifically for ID-1 format documents such as driver’s licenses and national ID cards.
In a first step towards making secure travelling and protection of privacy the new standard across Europe, Greece will introduce the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) by no later than November 2026.
The social media platform is bringing in the measures to comply with new rules under the UK's Online Safety Act which require sites that show adult material to introduce "robust" age checking techniques.
