ID & Secure Document News

Categories Biometrics Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is expanding the use of artificial intelligence and biometrics across immigration document processing and border clearance, as part of a wider move to digitise identity services.

Categories Event Review The Regional Banknote and ID Document of the Year Awards form part of the industry’s High Security Printing (HSP) Latin America conference. This year’s event was held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with the awards presented at a special ceremony during the conference dinner on 2 June. This article is reserved for our Premium level or higher subscribers A Premium or higher level subscription gives you access to all the articles on this website. Username - not your email!

Categories Driving Licences South Africa’s transport authorities are re-tendering for a next-generation physical driving licence card, with the stated intention of migrating the credential to a polycarbonate (PC) substrate, at the same time as introducing a digital equivalent under the MyMzansi programme. This article is reserved for our Premium level or higher subscribers A Premium or higher level subscription gives you access to all the articles on this website. Username - not your email!

Categories ID Cards Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) has begun issuing a redesigned Credencial para Votar for applications processed from 1 June 2026 onward, introducing a revised card aimed at higher resistance to counterfeiting, alteration and duplication, while adding accessibility functions for users with visual impairments. The INE describes the update as a security and inclusion upgrade that also reinforces the credential’s role as a primary identity document.

Categories Digital Identity His Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) has formally started market engagement for a new passport manufacturing and personalisation contract. This article is reserved for our Premium level or higher subscribers A Premium or higher level subscription gives you access to all the articles on this website. Username - not your email!

Counterfeiters are no longer limited to simple print and overlay methods to make counterfeit security features. High-resolution imaging, better foils, and wider access to precision tooling mean that many familiar ‘tilt effects’ can be imitated well enough to pass quick, first-line checks – especially on identity cards and passport datapages where the attack is aimed at the portrait and personal data.

Categories Editorial Over the weekend of 18-19 April 2026, Beijing staged its second ‘Human and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon’. According to Reuters, more than 300 humanoid robots took part alongside, but segregated from, 12,000 humans. This article is reserved for our Premium level or higher subscribers A Premium or higher level subscription gives you access to all the articles on this website. Username - not your email!

Categories Technical Features Security printing has always borrowed optical phenomena from physics and chemistry, and few of these phenomena are as useful as luminescence. This article is reserved for our Premium level or higher subscribers A Premium or higher level subscription gives you access to all the articles on this website. Username - not your email!

Categories Technical Features For years, online ‘age gates’ have meant a checkbox, a self-declared birthdate, or a ‘by continuing you confirm you’re over 18’. That is all about to change. Across multiple countries, regulators are now treating age-restricted access as something that must be enforceable, as well as privacy-preserving. This article is reserved for our Premium level or higher subscribers A Premium or higher level subscription gives you access to all the articles on this website.

Categories Company 2024-2025 saw some major mergers and acquisitions activity within the ID and secure document industry, with IDEMIA Group negotiating with IN Groupe for the acquisition of IDEMIA Smart Identity (September 2024), TOPPAN Holdings (via TOPPAN Gravity) agreeing to acquire HID’s Citizen Identity Solutions division from Assa Abloy (October 2024), and Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) signing to acquire a 75% stake in Rubicon SEZC (Laxton group holding company) in June 2025.