Technology news and insights in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
Technology News and insights in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
CFI Financial becomes the first investment platform in Bahrain to integrate with eKey for Business, enabling biometric, passwordless onboarding. The move strengthens digital trust, streamlines KYC compliance, and advances Bahrain’s eKey 2.0 vision to extend sovereign digital identity across the private sector.
Vodafone Qatar has launched a unified biometric eKYC platform powered by Innovatrics to enable fully remote onboarding for SIMs, eSIMs, wallets, and service changes. The system improves security with liveness detection, reduces reliance on physical stores, and reflects a broader global shift toward biometric-based digital identity and SIM registration.
Bahrain’s iGA and Beyon Connect have launched the Bulk KYC Service, enabling financial institutions to securely verify customer data at scale against national records — strengthening compliance, data integrity, and digital trust across the financial ecosystem.
Sri Lanka’s “OneRegistry” project, backed by UN agencies, digitizes civil registration to enhance legal identity, social inclusion, and public service delivery, benefiting over 1.2 million citizens and supporting the country’s digital transformation goals.