The Identity and Beyond Blog

Electronic IDs (eIDs) used to be optional — a nice-to-have for the more tech-forward users, a pilot program here and there. That’s changing fast. Governments are issuing digital ID cards and wallets at scale, and regulators are beginning to require businesses to accept them. Mobile driver’s licenses, government-issued eIDs, civic identity apps, digital wallet credentials…the…

SBC Summit 2026 brought the global betting and gaming industry together in Lisbon, with more than 40,000 industry professionals attending. From regulatory change and market expansion to fraud, onboarding and the evolution of the player experience, the event provided a clear snapshot of where the industry is heading. For Jumio, it also provided plenty of…

Fraud has always evolved. What has changed is the pace. Americans who filed cryptocurrency-related complaints reported losses exceeding $11 billion in a single year, one data point among many that signal a threat landscape operating at an entirely different scale and velocity than even a few years ago. For fraud prevention leaders and CROs at…

Not long ago, deepfakes were a novelty. Videos were passed around social media and between friends for their shock value alone. Today, these once “harmless” video tactics are being used as a tool for fraud. A highly effective one. Fraudsters are using face morphs, synthetic AI-generated faces, altered facial attributes, fake identity documents, and video…

eIDAS 2.0 is the European Union’s updated framework for electronic identification, authentication and trust services, and it changes how banks, payment providers and e-money institutions bring customers on board. The regulation mandates secure, interoperable digital identity across all 27 member states, replacing a patchwork of national eID schemes with a single technical and legal baseline….

Selfie ID verification is a very popular and user-friendly method of biometric identity verification. It began as a point-in-time photo match, and over the years has evolved into a persistent, AI-powered trust signal that spans the full customer lifecycle. The threat environment has evolved alongside it. Deepfake fraud attempts grew 2,137% over three years, and…

Trust is easy to establish. Maintaining it is the hard part. For years, identity verification has largely been treated as a point-in-time problem: verify a person at onboarding, confirm the document is legitimate, match the face to the identity, and establish trust. But today’s threat environment has fundamentally changed the equation. Identity data is valuable….

Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance is an evolving, high-stakes mandate that financial institutions, fintechs, and digital asset platforms must now address with real-time precision and sophistication. Regulatory scrutiny continues to intensify alongside increasingly complex financial crime schemes with global AML fines totaling almost $4 billion in 2025. While these fines dropped year over year in North…

The threat model that point-in-time identity verification was designed for no longer exists. Identity fraud losses reached $27.3 billion in 2025, growing consistently year over year since 2022, and the attack surface is expanding faster than static verification architectures can accommodate. Digital document forgeries surged 244% in 2024, now accounting for 57% of all document…

Autonomous AI agents don’t wait for instructions. They open accounts, initiate high-value transactions, modify access privileges, execute smart contracts, and interact with other AI agents — all without ongoing human confirmation. The implications for fraud are significant and already materializing. The FTC reported losses of $5.7 billion to fraud in 2024, and adverse outcomes from…

Last Updated: August 2026 Age verification laws require online platforms to confirm a user’s age before granting access to restricted content or services. As of early 2026, these laws are actively enforced across the U.S., UK, EU, and Australia, with approximately half of U.S. states now mandating some form of age gating. The UK’s Online…

Deepfake detection has moved from an academic curiosity to a core operational requirement for any organization running identity verification at scale. The AI-generated synthetic media threatening Know Your Customer (KYC) pipelines, onboarding workflows, and biometric authentication systems bears little resemblance to the crude face-swaps of five years ago. Deepfake files continue to surge, along with…