Accenture and NTT DOCOMO GLOBAL say they are rolling out a Universal Wallet Infrastructure (UWI) offering aimed at giving organizations a common backbone for digital-wallet deployments, rather than ...

Vietnam has issued a decree that introduces electronic identification codes for housing and real estate products, building a standardized identifier into national housing and real estate information ...

The most immediate operational change is the fee charged for ordering an Aadhaar PVC Card. In an office memorandum dated January 1, 2026, UIDAI set the service rate at ₹75, up from ₹50, and its public ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Moldova has issued a new procurement notice for an individual consultant to support the operationalization of the country’s Digital National Farmers ...

Trust Stamp and Blue Gold have signed a letter of intent to work on a biometric, passwordless "Wallet-of-Wallets" concept linked to tokenized gold. The announcement frames the approach as an ...

France’s La Poste Groupe experienced a widespread online service outage beginning on December 22, 2025, disrupting access to key postal, banking, and digital identity platforms. The organization ...

The World Bank said its Board has approved a 50 million U.S. dollar Sri Lanka Digital Transformation Project intended to increase the use of digital services by people and businesses and to improve ...

South Korea is moving to add facial verification to mobile phone activation and opening procedures as part of a broader effort to curb SIM-swap abuse and voice-phishing activity. Policy materials ...

Matica Fintec S.p.A. has agreed to acquire an initial 51 percent stake in Credence ID LLC, a biometric and digital identity provider based in Oakland, California. The structure gives Matica immediate ...

WatchGuard Firebox appliances running Fireware OS are the subject of multiple government and vendor advisories after disclosure of a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-14733. The Canadian ...