Hopae and TCC bring global eID checks to Saudi Arabia. September 4, 2026 Hopae and Technology Control Company (TCC) have signed a partnership agreement to accelerate the adoption of global electronic identities (eIDs) across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deal was signed at the TCC pavilion during LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, the Kingdom's flagship technology event. Under the terms of the agreement, TCC will introduce Hopae Connect, the company's global eID verification hub, to government entities and enterprises throughout Saudi Arabia. The platform links more than 70 government-issued eIDs and digital identity wallets through a single, compliant API, giving Saudi organisations the ability to verify individuals using the trusted digital identity of their home country rather than relying on document-based checks. Saudi Arabia attracts visitors from across the globe for business, employment, tourism and pilgrimage, and digital identity underpins every service made available to them. The partnership is designed to allow the Kingdom to recognise and verify identities from around the world while keeping its own national identity infrastructure entirely sovereign. Hopae was founded to give people the ability to use an identity they already hold and trust in any country they visit, rather than requiring separate verification systems for each jurisdiction. TCC brings deep expertise in identity management and secure digital solutions within the Saudi market, positioning the pair to jointly extend eID verification capability to organisations across the Kingdom. Beyond the rollout of Hopae Connect, the partnership includes joint training and solution workshops between the two companies, along with the co-development of use cases built specifically for the Saudi market. The agreement also sets out a route to bring these jointly developed solutions to market through TCC's existing customer network. The tie-up extends Hopae's partner network, which already spans leading identity verification and trust service providers across North America and Europe, into the Middle East for the first time. Hopae founder and CEO Jaehoon Shim said, "Digital identity is rarely noticed until it is missing, yet it sits beneath every enterprise, every institution and every welcome extended to someone who has travelled far to receive it. With TCC, we are bringing the world's digital identities to Saudi Arabia at the moment the Kingdom is drawing the world toward it. This is what Hopae was built for: letting people use the identity they already trust, wherever they go." TCC general manager of identity management Ahmed Saleh Almaiman said, "This partnership builds on TCC's ongoing efforts to advance our capabilities in digital identity and to strengthen the integration of technologies and expertise." Enjoying the stories? Investors. The following investor(s) were tagged in this article.

Hopae bets on Mexico with new INE verification tool. August 19, 2026 Hopae, the digital identity verification platform, has launched INE QR eID verification for Mexico, extending Hopae Connect's global coverage to more than 70 electronic identity documents through a single API. The launch gives businesses operating in Mexico direct access to the country's national voter identification credential, INE, which covers roughly 100m eligible adults, with the new QR-based check unlocking verification for an addressable pool of 80m users. Hopae said the integration is built on INE's latest and most secure credential generation, introducing cryptographic validation of the document itself rather than relying on photo or visual inspection alone. The company described this as establishing a genuine root-of-trust check, closing gaps that appearance-only checks can miss. Hopae positioned the release as future-proof, noting that the system is designed to remain compatible with Mexico's forthcoming biometric CURP rollout. The company said the deterministic, cryptography-based approach cuts fraud risk while reducing onboarding friction, since end users are not required to take extra steps to complete verification. Hopae added that the new check lowers the cost of trust for businesses by replacing manual or photo-based document reviews with automated, instant verification. The integration can be deployed flexibly, according to Hopae, either as an additional layer within existing regulated know-your-customer and anti-money laundering workflows, or as a standalone option for non-regulated use cases. It is also designed to work alongside other identity tools already in use, such as facial matching and liveness detection. Hopae Connect is the company's identity verification platform, used by businesses to authenticate customers across multiple markets through a single integration point. Hopae framed the Mexico launch as part of a broader push to deepen its presence across Latin America, pointing to the region's expanding digital economy as a key reason global companies are prioritising expansion there. Enjoyed the story?

Hopae targets Brazil's 65m digital IDs with CNH launch. July 22, 2026 Hopae has unveiled a real-time verification service for Brazil's digital driver's licence on its Hopae Connect platform, pairing encrypted QR code decoding with facial biometric matching checked against official government records. The new offering allows companies to confirm a licence's authenticity in three ways. First, the platform decrypts the official QR code on the CNH at string level, pulling registration details such as the holder's name, CPF number, birth date, parents' names, licence category, registration number, expiry date, first-licence date and issuing state directly from the certified credential rather than relying on information typed in by a user. Second, a live selfie is measured against the photograph held in official licensing records, producing a similarity score and confidence rating to establish that the individual presenting the licence genuinely owns it. Third, the decoded details are cross-referenced with Brazil's national identity bodies, including the tax authority and the National Traffic Secretariat (SENATRAN), to confirm both the document and its underlying demographic data remain valid. Brazil represents one of the largest identity ecosystems globally, with upwards of 200 million CPF records, more than 85 million people registered through the driver's licence system and over 65 million digital CNH credentials in use. Because QR codes became compulsory on all new CNHs from 1 May 2017, and licences issued without them would ordinarily have lapsed by mid-2022, nearly every valid licence in circulation today can be verified through the service. Hopae provides identity verification infrastructure through Hopae Connect, a single API designed for regulated, high-stakes use cases. The company said its workflows meet string-level assurance standards while complying with the EU's GDPR and Brazil's LGPD, with consent, data minimisation and privacy-by-design embedded throughout. The launch signals the beginning of a broader expansion into Latin America, where sectors such as FinTech, crypto, online gambling and identity verification providers are scaling quickly and require compliant onboarding tools. Hopae positions Brazil, given its size and digital identity maturity, as the natural first market, with ambitions to become the identity layer underpinning the region's growth. The service is available now, targeting regulated financial services, mobility and ride-sharing platforms and other trust-critical applications, replacing manual document reviews with instant, government-backed checks. Investors. The following investor(s) were tagged in this article.