Filtered by tech: biometric-id-cards
Dai Nippon Printing secured 96.55 percent of tendered shares in its €364 million takeover of AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS, pending Austrian foreign investment clearance.
The Swiss Federal Council set November 2, 2026 as the start date for a biometric identity card storing a facial image and two fingerprints on a secure chip.
Haiti signed a $3 million agreement with Japan and the Organization of American States to fund 350,000 biometric identity cards and mobile registration units.
Greece's Ministry of Citizen Protection opened a €415.6 million tender covering biometric capture, personalisation, and issuance for national identity cards and passports.
Niger launched its biometric national identity card as the second AES member state to deploy the shared system, issuing polycarbonate cards with embedded biometric chips under a 15-year public-private concession that enables passport-free travel across the Sahel alliance.
Ethiopia’s National ID Program published a procurement notice for supply and delivery of 20 million pre-personalized secure resident ID cards.
India’s UIDAI increased the Aadhaar PVC card service fee and issued guidance discontinuing the Aadhaar hologram on the optional physical card product.
Ethiopia says it will begin issuing secure physical ID cards tied to its Fayda digital identity system, aiming to support in-person identity checks and biometric authentication for eKYC workflows.
Vietnam’s central bank is tightening know-your-customer (KYC) rules for banks and payment firms, effectively steering customers toward chip-based ID cards and the VNeID digital identity app for account opening and remote transactions.