Substantial Growth in Global Digital ID Verification Checks

A new study from Juniper Research found that the number of digital ID verification checks will reach 86 billion in 2025, rising from 75 billion in 2024. This maintains the trend from the previous year when growth reached 16%.

The study cited the adoption of strong customer authentication (SCA), a regulatory framework that reduces eCommerce fraud, as a key driver to this growth. Juniper Research predicts that eCommerce merchants will increasingly turn to biometric checks, such as facial recognition, to minimize fraud. Through this, SCA frameworks are adhered to, enabling accurate verification of new users and the effective monitoring of eCommerce transactions exceeding a set monetary value.

However, given the vast number of daily transactions, the report urges vendors to implement AI-based solutions such as liveness detection, which automates the detection of fraudulent activity. By leveraging AI, these vendors can detect emerging forms of eCommerce fraud earlier and reduce losses to fraud in the long run.

Furthermore, the report identified behavioral biometrics as an emerging technology that will enable merchants to meet SCA requirements, without adding friction to the user experience. Behavioral biometrics compares the current behavior of a user to the logged behavior of the credentials’ owner, for verification.

“The digital identity verification market is undergoing rapid evolution, and vendors must balance ever-stricter regulations and improving user experiences as they develop new services. New methods of verification must align with the technological innovation of consumer hardware,” said report author Thomas Wilson.