Author: Neel Achary

MobileSphere Index Finds Mobile Numbers Are Becoming the New Digital Identity

Financial services account for 41.6% of identified verification activity, as messaging and global mobility highlight the expanding role of the mobile number

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sept. 16, 2026 – MobileSphere, a leading provider of global mobile communications, today released its Mobile Identity Index for the first half of 2026, finding that the mobile number is evolving from a communications endpoint into an important digital identity credential used to access banking, payments, technology platforms, messaging services, and other parts of everyday digital life.

Powered by SLYNUMBER data, the research analyzes more than half a million aggregate and anonymized mobile verification events from January through June 2026. Financial services accounted for 41.6% of identified verification activity, more than twice the share of any other single vertical. Digital services, including platforms such as Google, Microsoft and AI services, represented 18.8%, while messaging accounted for 11.0%. Together, financial services, digital services, and messaging apps represented 71.4% of identified activity, rising to 81.2% when transportation was included. 

The findings show the mobile number functioning as more than a way to call or text. It is increasingly part of the identity layer consumers use to access money, activate digital services, communicate, recover accounts, and stay connected across devices, networks, and locations.

“The mobile number has quietly become a critical part of our digital life,” said Toufic Mobarak, founder and President of MobileSphere. “We depend on it to access our money, communicate, activate social and messaging apps, recover accounts, and confirm our identity. That role becomes even more critical when people travel, relocate, or live across borders.”

Financial services emerge as the leading mobile identity use case

Financial services led the identified verification mix across the first half and gained 9.7 percentage points in share from the beginning to the end of the period. Activity spanned banks, payment services, bank-linking platforms, credit products, and cash-flow tools, reinforcing how deeply the mobile number is embedded in financial authentication, account access, and customer continuity.

Additional Findings:

•  Messaging gained share. Messaging represented 11.0% of identified activity across the half and increased 4.4 percentage points, with higher aggregate activity across several international messaging services during major travel periods.

•  Mobile identity moves with consumers. Aggregate verification activity shifted around tax season, major travel periods, and global events, showing how aggregate demand for access to financial, communications, and mobility services can change alongside real-world events.

•  Connectivity and identity are different layers. For travelers and expatriates, eSIMs, roaming plans, Wi-Fi, and hotspots can provide connectivity, but continued access to a recognized mobile number may still matter for banking, payments, messaging, and account recovery.

•  Mobile identity is concentrated in essential digital services. Financial services, technology, and messaging accounted for 71.4% of identified activity, rising to 81.2% when transportation was included.

•  Emerging service trends are visible. AI services and international messaging produced some of the strongest growth signals in aggregate verification activity during the half, with OpenAI-related activity reaching record levels in May and June and multiple messaging services reaching record or near-record levels during major travel periods.

By tracking aggregate verification activity over time, the Mobile Identity Index is designed to detect emerging shifts in the digital services consumers rely on for identity and access. This report highlights these trends to underscore the critical importance of user digital identity. To download the full 1H 2026 report, visit:
https://slynumber.com/docs/MobileSphere_Mobile_Identity_Index_1H2026_Research_Report.pdf

Wordly Turns Live Event Translation into Revenue Generator

Organizers can now fund language access for multilingual events with high-visibility sponsor logo placements

LOS ALTOS, CA – September 23, 2026 – Wordly, the pioneer in AI translation and captions used across conferences, governments, schools, and enterprises, today announced the launch of Sponsor Logos, a new enhancement that allows event organizers to sell sponsor placement within the live translation and captioning experience for the first time. The release marks the beginning of a broader series of new features rolling out this fall, each designed to expand Wordly’s value for event teams. 

Sponsor Logos places a partner’s branding directly on the attendee screens, whether they are following captions on their phones or reading translated subtitles on the screen of the main stage. For multi-stage events, each session can carry its own sponsor, creating a new tier of high-visibility inventory that organizers can sell to partners. In addition to providing a new piece of sponsorship inventory while helping fund the language access that makes an event more inclusive, and potentially more valuable to sponsors and attendees alike. 

“Event organizers are constantly challenged to stretch budgets while providing inclusive, accessible experiences,” said Wordly Founder & CEO Lakshman Rathnam. “With Sponsor Logos, language access isn’t just a cost center anymore, it’s a high-visibility revenue stream.” 

Sponsor Logos builds on Wordly’s growing momentum across the events industry, where demand for real‑time captioning and translation continues to rise. Adoption of live AI translation and captions has pushed Wordly past the 1‑billion‑minutes and 6‑million‑users milestones, fueling 668% three‑year growth. 

“Event organizers have already saved more than $200 million by switching from traditional human interpretation to Wordly,” continued Rathnam. “Sponsor Logos takes that value even further by giving teams a powerful way to showcase sponsors and generate more revenue.”

Liquibase Secure Now Available on Snowflake Marketplace to Automate and Govern Change Across Data Platforms

AUSTIN, Texas, September 23, 2026 – Liquibase, the leader in Database Change Governance, today announced that Liquibase Secure is now available on Snowflake Marketplace, giving Snowflake customers a new way to automate and govern change.

Snowflake, the platform for the AI era, makes it easy for enterprises to innovate faster and get more value from data. As more critical workloads move to Snowflake, the scope and consequence of change grow with it.

Teams aren’t just changing tables and views. They’re changing roles, shares, stages, warehouses, tasks, and other objects that control how data is accessed, moved, and used. But the processes used to manage those changes haven’t always kept pace. Manual SQL scripts, direct changes, and disconnected workflows become harder to control as more teams, environments, and critical workloads build

Liquibase Secure brings those changes into a standardized, version-controlled delivery process. Teams can automate deployment through existing CI/CD and DataOps workflows, enforce policy before changes reach production, detect drift and out-of-band changes, maintain audit-ready evidence, and recover quickly when something goes wrong.

Govern Change Across the Snowflake Data Platform

Liquibase Secure extends governance beyond traditional schema change to changes that affect structure, access, data movement, and execution. This gives organizations a consistent way to manage change across teams and environments without requiring every team to build and maintain its own process.

With Liquibase Secure, Snowflake customers can:

• Automate change delivery through version-controlled workflows integrated with existing CI/CD and DataOps processes.
• Stop risky changes before production with automated policy checks that enforce organizational standards.
• Detect drift and out-of-band changes when customer environments differ from their expected state.
• Maintain audit-ready evidence with a traceable record of what changed, when it changed, and how it was deployed.
• Recover faster when changes fail with traceable, reversible changes and rollback procedures.

Liquibase Secure works alongside the development, CI/CD, infrastructure, and DataOps tools organizations already use. Teams get a consistent, governed path to production while existing tools continue doing the jobs they were designed to do.

“As organizations expand their use of Snowflake across critical data and AI initiatives, strong governance controls and operational consistency become top priorities” said Rodrigo Rocha, Vice President, Global ISV & Enterprise Technology Partnerships at Snowflake. “The availability of Liquibase Secure on Snowflake Marketplace gives customers another way to govern changes in their Snowflake environments.”

Available on Snowflake Marketplace

Liquibase Secure is available now on Snowflake Marketplace. Eligible customers can use Snowflake Marketplace Capacity Drawdown toward Liquibase Secure purchases, allowing them to use a reserved portion of their committed Snowflake capacity for eligible Marketplace purchases.

For enterprises operating across heterogeneous database environments, Liquibase Secure supports more than 65 database platforms, providing one approach to Database Change Governance across Snowflake and the rest of the database estate.

Red Sift launches BIMI Maker to help every brand get its logo into email inboxes

The free tool uses AI to prepare existing logos for BIMI, validate email authentication, and guide brands through certification in a single workflow.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – September 23, 2026 – Red Sift, the company making the internet fundamentally safer, today launched Red Sift BIMI Maker, a free self-service tool that uses AI to take brands from virtually any logo file to an inbox-ready Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) in a single session, eliminating the need for trademark registration, design work, or engineering resources.

The certificate enables a brand’s logo to appear alongside its emails in Gmail, Yahoo, and other inboxes that support BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification), helping organizations increase trust, visibility, and engagement. Organizations with BIMI see a 39% increase in email open rates, yet adoption remains stalled by deployment complexity. While roughly 50,000 domains publish BIMI records today, only about 6,500 organizations have obtained the certificate required for logos to display consistently in inboxes. Research indicates that nearly 87% of organizations that begin a BIMI deployment never complete it, largely because of logo-formatting and trademark-related requirements.

Red Sift BIMI Maker removes those barriers by using AI to prepare existing logos for BIMI compliance, validating email authentication readiness, and guiding users through the certification process from start to finish. The result is a faster path to inbox brand visibility, higher engagement, and increased revenue from email.

“Nobody sets out to spend three weeks learning about an SVG profile. They set out to get their logo in the inbox,” said Rahul Powar, Co-founder and CEO at Red Sift. “The standard has been ready for years. The path to using it hasn’t been. Most of the work between a brand’s logo and an issued certificate is work that software and modern AI should be doing, and CMCs mean the brands that were locked out by trademark rules now have a route in. That’s a much bigger market than the few thousand domains showing a logo today.”

BIMI Maker brings logo preparation, readiness checks and certificate application into one guided workflow. Users can start with their website address or upload an existing logo. AI helps convert the existing logo into the format BIMI requires and match it against branding on the company’s website and archived pages to gather evidence of prior use. Users can preview their logo in an inbox, check their domain’s email authentication and review potential blockers, like DMARC status, before applying for a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) or Common Mark Certificate (CMC). The tool packages the logo, domain checks and supporting evidence for certificate authority review, then guides users through payment and DNS setup.

“The key to any adoption is ease, and BIMI maker is removing the hurdles that we often see senders struggle with,” said Nick Schafer, Director of Deliverability and Compliance at Sinch Mailgun. “Anything that makes it easier for senders to achieve BIMI compliance is a win for the industry.”

Red Sift BIMI Maker is available now with no signup required to check a logo or generate a compliant SVG.