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Incode named a 2026 Prism Refractor and Resilient Trust Leader. Incode Aug 10, 2026 Incode is proud to share that Incode has been named a Prism Refractor and Resilient Trust Leader in the 2026 Biometric Digital Identity Financial Services Prism Report, published by The Prism Project. The Prism Project is an independent research and market education initiative from Acuity Market Intelligence. Its evaluations draw on public data, surveys, interviews, and confidential briefings across hundreds of organizations. In the 2026 report, Incode was recognized as the highest-scoring Luminary in the Core Identity Technology Beam, one of eight beams the report uses to map the biometric digital identity ecosystem. The Refractor designation is reserved for the single highest-scoring vendor in each Beam. What makes Incode a Resilient Trust Leader? The 2026 Financial Services Prism Report acknowledged Incode's vertically integrated AI platform spanning biometric identity verification, liveness detection, document authentication, identity orchestration, and fraud intelligence, all in one cohesive platform. Most other identity verification (IDV) solutions provide a stack built from third-party tools and services. It also mentioned Incode's proprietary AI models, which have performed more than seven billion identity trust checks as of August 2026, with over 400 million identity profiles worldwide. Finally, the report mentioned Incode's private-by-design architecture, which enables the platform to meet rising consumer expectations about privacy while helping organizations meet their trust and compliance goals. Why The Prism recognition matters. This year's report introduces a new lens for the industry: the Prism Resilient Trust Pyramid. This model extends the traditional Triangle of Trust, which focuses exclusively on issuers (governments and other sources of ID), holders (consumers), and verifiers (organizations), to also include an always-on point of IDV: biometrics. The timing makes sense. As agentic AI begins initiating transactions, making decisions, and interacting autonomously across banking, lending, and digital asset ecosystems, financial institutions face a harder question than document fraud alone. They need to know a real human is behind a given action at all times. Resilient identity now has to unite privacy protection and regulatory compliance with defense against deepfakes, synthetic identities, and injection attacks. Both have to hold at once, across onboarding, authentication, and every high-risk transaction that follows. How Incode is built for the Resilient Trust Pyramid shift. The document authentication depth from AuthenticID and the privacy-preserving cryptography layer from Identiq support Incode's proprietary network intelligence architecture, which lets financial institutions detect fraud patterns across institutional boundaries without exposing customer data or surrendering data sovereignty. AI-generated personas, deepfakes, and agentic fraud all require continuous verification that a human is actually present, not just identified. Incode is prioritizing partnerships where continuous trust is the ultimate goal. The report specifically called this out by mentioning Incode's collaboration with Interac, in which liveness detection is paired with network-level fraud intelligence to strengthen IDV while keeping friction low for legitimate customers. Download the report. The 2026 Biometric Digital Identity Financial Services Prism Report, including Incode's complete profile and the Resilient Trust Pyramid framework, is available now. Download the report today. Interested in learning how Incode can help establish continuous trust at your organization? Request a demo today.

Incode launches GovFaceMatch for DMV-based identity verification. Product links identity to issuing government record via secure DMV integrations Incode has announced the launch of GovFaceMatch, which a blog post calls "the first identity solution to verify biometrics directly against state DMV records in real time." The company says that, in the face of complex, sophisticated AI attacks that hobble traditional identity verification systems, "the only viable solution is to tie identity directly to an irrefutable source of truth." Government records serve this purpose, and Incode is betting on their reliability, in that GovFaceMatch is the first product to launch in GovMatch, a suite of verification solutions built on government records. "By matching a live selfie against the issuing government record," it says, "GovFaceMatch confirms identity against the one source that cannot be fabricated, in an average of 10 seconds." No need to trust document, no additional friction. The firm is positioning its offering as an alternative to additional checks that add friction and can ultimately impact revenue. "Additional identity checks frustrate users, and that frustration translates to drop-offs and lost conversion," it says. "Up to 40 percent of legitimate users abandon document-based verification before they complete their session." GovFaceMatch prioritizes a simple user experience, aiming to offer most customers a basic two-step process: scan a driver's license barcode and take a selfie for matching. In doing so, it tweaks the central question from "does this document look legitimate?" to "does the person undergoing verification match a real government-issued identity?" This, Incode says, eliminates the need to trust the document at all. The product can verify identity in an average of 10 seconds, and has led to a 20 percent increase in overall conversion for select use cases. It requires explicit consent for all user verifications, and facial biometrics "can be deleted immediately following verification." It operates through secure integrations with state DMV systems, with all biometric matching occurring within the DMV environment, behind its security perimeter. This form of direct verification against official issuing records, Incode says, provides "a level of certainty that legacy systems cannot replicate." Government records immune to agentic AI. In a post on LinkedIn, Incode CEO Ricardo Amper calls GovFaceMatch "a new standard for identity verification." He says the threat of AI fraud has grown too sophisticated for the tradeoff between fraud and friction to survive. "A fake identity built on real stolen data and the fraudster's own face sells for as little as $15, and a fully functioning synthetic identity can be built in under seven minutes," Amper says. "The data is real. The face passes the check. Traditional verification was never designed to stop this." Amper points to Incode's recent Agentic Fraud Report, which "documented autonomous AI agents executing attacks with no human operator, generating documents, identities, and deepfakes at machine speed." "Every check that judges whether an artifact looks authentic loses ground as agentic AI improves. A government record does not." Article topics. Latest biometrics news. Aug 11, 2026, 4:51 pm EDT Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose case against adult content providers in the Supreme Court set a precedent on age... Aug 11, 2026, 4:23 pm EDT On the surface, the UK's quest to allow adults to use digital ID to prove their age for alcohol sales... Aug 11, 2026, 3:31 pm EDT The latest NIST Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) 1:1 results suggest facial verification is entering a more mature phase. Established... Aug 11, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT Western Australia Police invited additional criticism and controversy into their June pilot of live facial recognition with transparency and consultation... Aug 11, 2026, 3:28 pm EDT The British Transport Police (BTP) are expanding its live facial recognition trial with deployments in London Underground stations. The first... Aug 11, 2026, 2:46 pm EDT Signicat's technology for biometric identity verification and ID document validation with NFC scans, ReadID, has been certified for the UK's...

Incode launches GovFaceMatch, the first solution to match biometrics against US government records. Setting a new standard in identity verification, GovFaceMatch(TM) removes the tradeoff between conversion and fraud with 6x faster onboarding and 150x better fraud prevention SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Incode Technologies, Inc., a global leader in AI-powered identity security and fraud prevention, today announced the broad availability of GovFaceMatch, a solution that confirms identity against state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) databases in real time. GovFaceMatch is the first in the identity verification market to offer biometric matching of a live selfie against official DMV records, helping organizations grow without sacrificing security. It represents the flagship offering within GovMatch(TM), Incode's suite of solutions for image-based and data-based verification against government records. Synthetic and stolen identity fraud has become one of the most damaging unresolved challenges facing U.S. businesses, exposing the limitations of traditional identity verification - a threat now accelerating as agentic AI makes it faster and cheaper to fabricate convincing identities. When fraudsters combine real stolen data, AI-generated documents, and their own photos to bypass existing checks, businesses are left absorbing fraud losses, higher operational costs, and unnecessary friction for legitimate users. "99.9% of the fraudulent identities that slip through data-only checks today are stopped cold by GovFaceMatch," said Ricardo Amper, Founder and CEO of Incode. "For decades, the identity verification industry has operated on probabilistic signals - not because it was the right answer, but because there was nothing better. As fraud becomes an autonomous, machine-speed problem, GovFaceMatch gives our industry its first real edge in the fight ahead." The Cost of Synthetic and Stolen Identity Fraud For years, identity verification has forced organizations into an impossible choice: accept more fraud or add more friction. Now, the threat has grown too sophisticated for that tradeoff to continue. Identity data is already widely compromised, with U.S. data breaches reaching an all-time high in 2025. An estimated $3.3 billion was lost to synthetic identity fraud in 2024, and losses are expected to surpass $20 billion by 2030. Fully functioning synthetic and fake identities can now be built in just a few minutes, for as little as $15. The industry's response has been to add more layers - document authenticity, additional data checks, one-time verification codes. Yet sophisticated fraud still passes, while 40% of legitimate users abandon document-based verification. The very friction meant to make verification stronger is driving away the real customers businesses are trying to protect. GovFaceMatch was built to close this critical gap. "Identity is the foundation of trust in nearly every transaction that matters, from opening a bank account to accessing healthcare. As the agency responsible for issuing that identity credential, we have a duty to help get it right," said Commissioner Angelique B. McClendon, Georgia Department of Driver Services. "By working with Incode, we're enabling private-sector partners to rely on the same trusted records we do, with clear consumer consent at every step. Georgia DDS is proud to be part of a partnership that strengthens the broader identity ecosystem." How It Works GovFaceMatch verifies identity directly against the government record, the one source of truth no fraudster can fabricate. The solution performs a one-to-one biometric comparison of a user's selfie against the photo in a participating state DMV database, cross-checks the user's personal information against the DMV's identity record, and returns a simple match result. With a two-step process consisting of an ID barcode scan and a selfie capture, GovFaceMatch provides a user experience that takes an average of 10 seconds and drives 20% better conversion compared to traditional document-based verification. By going to the government source, GovFaceMatch also delivers 1000x fewer false acceptances than traditional data-only checks and 150x fewer than document-based verification. The solution is backed by the full reach of the GovMatch suite, which combines image-based and data-based verification to cover 95%+ of the U.S. population. Privacy by Design GovFaceMatch is architected with privacy built in. All biometric matching is performed within the DMV environment, and Incode never receives or stores the biometric data or database portrait from the DMV. The solution operates within each participating state's legal and data retention requirements and requires explicit consumer consent; facial biometrics can be deleted immediately following verification. Preparing Organizations for the Agentic Fraud Era Incode's Agentic Fraud(TM) Report - an analysis of 66 independently sourced U.S. AI-fraud cases against official FBI and FTC loss data - documents where this is already heading: increasingly autonomous AI agents generating convincing identities, documents, and deepfakes at machine speed and scale. Of the $20.9 billion in fraud losses reported to the FBI in 2025, $893 million was already tagged as AI-enabled. Verification that judges whether an image or document looks authentic will keep losing ground to these attacks. Confirming the right, real person against the government record will not, and this is how GovFaceMatch defends against today's fraud while future-proofing organizations against the Agentic Fraud era ahead. About Incode Technologies Incode is the global leader in trust and identity. With its mission to power a world of trust at the speed of AI, Incode works with eight of the top ten U.S. banks, seven of the top eight global telecom providers, and many of the world's largest fintechs, technology companies, marketplaces, and governments. The platform has processed over four billion identity checks globally and has been recognized in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification. Incode is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices across Europe and Latin America. August 4th, 2026 August 3rd, 2026