2025 ARGOS Identity Verification Year in Review : Growth and Global Trends in Identity Verification Through Global Authentication Data

Growth and Global Identity Verification Trends Through a Year of Accumulated Global Data

As 2025 came to a close, the question the ARGOS team asked most often was not simply about performance.
Rather than “How much did verification volume grow this year?”, the more frequent question was,
“With this level of growth, were we truly able to operate stably?”

As global services expanded rapidly, verification requests surged across countries and regions without distinction. At the same time, fraud and forgery attempts became more sophisticated, and the operational burden increased accordingly. As verification volume grows, identity verification does not become easier it becomes more complex.

This year-end review revisits the vast amount of global verification data accumulated by ARGOS Identity throughout 2025, not to highlight numbers alone, but to examine what those numbers meant in real operational environments. In that sense, this report serves as a record of where global identity verification is heading.

Key 2025 eKYC Performance Metrics, by the Numbers

The defining characteristic of ARGOS identity verification in 2025 was the ability to maintain both speed and stability simultaneously. While verification submissions increased by 1,850% year over year, more than 117,000 fraudulent and tampered attempts were detected and blocked. Verification activity occurred across 179 countries and regions, reflecting truly global traffic processed in live production environments.

What stands out is that despite this rapid growth in scale, neither security accuracy nor operational stability was compromised. Typically, surges in verification traffic lead to higher manual review rates or relaxed security thresholds. ARGOS, however, chose the opposite path enhancing the precision of security decisions even as growth accelerated.

What “Effective Automation” Really Means

Compared to Q1 2025, ARGOS saw both verification submission volume and automated review rates grow by as much as 19x. This growth represents more than increased throughput it indicates a significant expansion of areas where reliable decisions can be made without human intervention.

In systems where automation is not sufficiently mature, rising traffic inevitably increases operational burden. ARGOS continuously refined its automated review logic, enabling faster processing and greater operational efficiency while maintaining verification accuracy. As a result, automation evolved beyond a cost-saving mechanism and became core infrastructure enabling global service scalability.

Behind the 2,173% Growth in Global Verifications in Just One Year

Comparing January and December 2025, ARGOS’s global verification volume grew by 2,173%. This level of growth cannot be explained by short-term campaigns or a single customer expansion. It was driven by expanded coverage of global passports and identity documents, allowing diverse country-specific verification environments to be absorbed through automation.

Combined with advanced country-specific verification policies and UX improvements, exceptions such as “verification not supported in this country” were rapidly reduced. As verification failure rates decrease, service operators gain confidence to expand into more markets. This growth highlights that global verification success is built not only on technology, but on accumulated operational trust.

What the Numbers Reveal About UX

Among ARGOS verification users in 2025, the oldest successfully verified individual was 97 years old. Some verification services today report repeated failures among elderly users or excessively strict timing requirements that cause single verification attempts to take tens of minutes. In real-world testing, even slightly faster movements can result in failure, creating on-site confusion.

ARGOS approached this challenge not as a technical issue, but as a UX problem. By removing unnecessarily strict motion requirements and designing verification flows that users can naturally follow, ARGOS ensured that even elderly users could complete verification without difficulty. This approach demonstrates how inclusive identity verification must be to support truly global services.

An Automation Rate of 94.47% : What Lies Behind the Number?

In November 2025, ARGOS achieved a record-high automation rate of 94.47%. This was not the result of a single feature release, but of countless bug fixes and systematic resolution of edge cases over time. As automation rates increased, verification failure rates declined, and points requiring human intervention became clearer.

As a result, ARGOS established a structure capable of maintaining verification quality even during traffic spikes an essential prerequisite for operating large-scale global services. Automation rate evolved from a simple KPI into a true indicator of system reliability.

The Meaning of Global Coverage Validated Across 179 Countries

Throughout 2025, ARGOS identity verification received real submissions from 179 countries and regions worldwide. Maintaining consistent verification quality across environments with different regulations, document types, and user behaviors represents one of ARGOS’s strongest competitive advantages.

This demonstrates that ARGOS is not a solution optimized for a single country, but an identity verification infrastructure ready for immediate deployment by global businesses. Coverage is more than a number it defines the boundaries of trust for how far a service can confidently expand.

Operational Flexibility Enabled by a 17% Reduction in Manual Review

In 2025, ARGOS reduced its manual review (Pending) rate by approximately 17%, significantly improving operational efficiency. This change not only reduced the burden on operations teams, but also positively impacted verification speed and overall service experience. As manual reviews decrease, verification flows become more predictable, creating a resilient structure capable of handling large-scale traffic.

Automation and operational efficiency did not come at the expense of security; instead, they enabled more precise decision-making.

2025 was the year ARGOS proved both how fast it could grow and how stably it could scale. Global verification data, automation rates, UX improvements, and operational efficiency all deliver a single message: identity verification is no longer a supplementary feature it is core infrastructure supporting global services.

Building on the insights from 2025, ARGOS will continue working toward an even more stable and inclusive verification environment for more countries and users in 2026. We look forward to your continued interest and support.