Fragomen and SICPA Launch a Global Strategic Joint Venture to Advance Global Digital Identity Solutions

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – 8 July, 2026 – Fragomen, the world’s leading provider of immigration services, through its independent digital identity business and SICPA, the global leader in secure identification and authentication technologies through its sovereignty digital platform, today announced the formation of a global joint venture to implement the next-generation digital identity solutions for governments, enterprises and individuals. 

The partnership combines Fragomen’s expertise in global workforce mobility with SICPA’s credentialing infrastructure and its suite of sovereign secure digital technologies to support a new generation of secure, scalable and interoperable digital identity ecosystems. 

“The future of mobility, compliance and digital trust depends on making identity and document verification more secure, more portable and easier to use,” said Lance Kaplan, Co-Chair of Fragomen. “Fragomen has been investing in digital identity innovation and technology platforms designed to reduce friction across global mobility and compliance processes, and together with SICPA, we will bring trusted infrastructure and verifiable credentials into a unified platform, connecting government-issued credentials with enterprise and individual identity workflows.”  

The joint venture will deliver an end-to-end, standards-based platform that connects identity verification, verifiable credentials, document authentication, digital wallets and credential lifecycle management within a single ecosystem. The platform will help governments, enterprises and individuals securely verify, manage and share trusted information across borders and digital environments.  

Designed for use across the public and private sectors, the technology can support workforce mobility, travel and tourism, hospitality, education, corporate digital identity, document digitalization and humanitarian programs and systems. By enabling trusted credentials to be securely verified and shared among governments, organizations and individuals, the platform helps tackle fraud, streamline compliance processes and support trusted digital interactions at scale. 

“Digital identity is becoming foundational to how people, organizations and governments interact,” said Philippe Amon, Chairman and CEO of SICPA. "By combining SICPA’s trusted credentialing infrastructure and its suite of digital identity solutions with Fragomen’s global mobility expertise and enterprise workflows, we are enabling solutions that are secure, interoperable and practical at scale.” 

The initiative reflects growing demand from governments and enterprises for interoperable, privacy-focused digital identity solutions that can operate across jurisdictions, regulatory frameworks and address global immigration. It also reflects the ever-increasing need for trusted connections between public and private sectors, enabling end-to-end digital identity ecosystems.  

The new company will be headquartered at SICPA's unlimitrust campus in Switzerland and will operate globally, including through future subsidiaries and strategic partnerships. 

About Fragomen 

Fragomen is the leading global immigration law firm with more than 6,000 professionals across more than 70 offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific, delivering services in over 170 countries. Ranked on both the Am Law 100 and Am Law Global 100, the firm is widely recognized for its leadership in immigration law and commitment to fostering a culture where diverse attorneys thrive and all individuals have equal opportunities to succeed. 

Fragomen helps corporations and individuals navigate the complexities of global mobility and provides end-to-end support across the immigration lifecycle, from strategic planning and policy design to compliance, government investigations, litigation and more. The firm combines legal acumen and advanced digital capabilities to simplify global mobility and deliver smarter, faster and more adaptive solutions via a suite of technology brands - including Nomadic, its business travel platform that enables real-time compliance, WorkRight, its multi-jurisdictional employment verification software, LCATrail, a solution that streamlines the preparation and management of Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) and Public Access Files (PAFs), and Simple Citizen, a digital solution designed to streamline the pathway to US citizenship. 

With a global presence, multidisciplinary approach and investment in technology, Fragomen is uniquely positioned to address today’s immigration challenges and shape the future of workforce mobility. For more information, visit www.fragomen.com.  

About SICPA   

Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, SICPA is a privately-owned company providing secured identification, traceability and authentication solutions and services, with offices and manufacturing facilities in 40 countries on 5 continents and a staff above 3,000 from over 50 nationalities. SICPA provides technologies and services to 180 countries around the world, being the trusted security provider and adviser to governments, central banks, high-security printers and industry that supports the effective governance and long-term prosperity of nations. 

SICPA sets the pulse of sovereignty, enabling governments and institutions to authenticate and secure their vital assets. Our platform for sovereignty delivers custom solutions built on a century of cutting-edge innovations in material, digital, and data science domains. At the center of every SICPA solution is a custom crafted molecule, unique to each nation. Acting as a single source of truth, these unique markers are deployed across the full value chain to generate actionable and trustworthy insights in real time. 

SICPA is best known for securing the majority of the world's banknotes. With operations across five continents, today our platform for sovereignty delivers integrated solutions safeguarding revenue mobilisation, natural resources, health, and brand protection as well as digital sovereignty and secure public services.  For more information, visit www.sicpa.com. 

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