Travelling for Travel and Borders As the event season remains in full swing, its difficult to pause for breath sometimes and reflect on one event before mixing it with the next. Read more
Insight: Report from EC Conference - Schengen Innovative Technologies On the 28th of March 2023, the European Commission, in collaboration with Europol and Frontex, held a conference on innovative technologies for strengthening... Read more
Eurostar launches SmartCheck with iProov and Inverid inside As of the 18th of July 2023, Eurostar has officially launched its SmartCheck biometric gates for Business Premier and Carte Blanche passengers at London St... Read more
Decoding European DTC Options: Navigating Digital Travel Confusion Assessing the European Commission's Options for Digitalising Travel Documents The digitalisation of travel documents has the potential to revolutionize the... Read more
EC changes to Advance Passenger Information legislation moves forward The EC Requirement on Air Carriers to materially improve the quality of Advance Passenger Information, through automated data collection, takes a significant... Read more
The role of NFC passports in Digital Travel Credentials It was a wise person, or perhaps one who had been driven from sanity by frustration, who said ‘the most wonderful thing about standards is, there are so many... Read more
EC proposes automated means of collection of API for air carriers European Commission directs Airlines and other Carriers to reduce errors in Advanced Passenger Information through the use of NFC chip reading. Read more
Happy Identity Day! Today (16 September) is Identity Day. Linking to UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9: by 2030 provide legal identity for all including free birth... Read more
NFC throughout the customer journey Many of the original use cases for (NFC-based) identity verification are linked to onboarding or registration like events in the customer journey, such as... Read more
Secure identity cards across Europe From this August onwards all EU countries need to provide identity cards that are chipped and machine readable according to the ICAO 9303. A milestone for ... Read more