SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 30, 2026--
Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered identity intelligence, today shared insights on how its platform supported gaming operators through the intense traffic of the 2026 World Cup. Based on an analysis of transaction activity across its global gaming client base – including 9 of the top 10 European gaming operators and several of the largest U.S. sportsbooks – Jumio’s customers initiated tens of millions of transactions throughout the tournament, demonstrating robust platform scalability and reliability during peak global sporting moments.
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“Supporting our gaming customers through an event of this magnitude requires more than just raw capacity – it requires precision,” said Bala Kumar, Jumio president and CPTO. “By providing identity intelligence at scale, we enabled operators to handle peak match-day traffic without compromising on security or speed. This performance confirms that operators can protect their ecosystem and build player trust, even when global engagement is at its highest.”
World Cup transaction volume provided a clear window into how global sporting events drive player engagement. Jumio’s data reflects the massive regional influence on platform activity: Brazil was a primary driver of transaction volume throughout the earlier stages of the tournament, with traffic patterns shifting naturally following the team’s exit on July 5. Despite these regional fluctuations, the platform remained under constant high-load conditions, seamlessly scaling throughout the tournament and the top five busiest match-day windows:
While those dates captured the peak, the tournament also saw interesting variance: the final match on July 19 proved to be the seventh-busiest day, whereas the third-place match on July 18 surprisingly ranked as the third-quietest day of the entire event.
Jumio’s reliability was supported by proactive collaboration. Leading up to the tournament, Jumio’s success team worked closely with operators on capacity planning and regular readiness check-ins, ensuring clients were fully prepared for the anticipated traffic spikes.
Among the operators leveraging Jumio to maintain service integrity and build lasting player trust is TQJ, the company behind the Bet do Milhão online betting platform.
"For our platform, the World Cup was a critical moment to maintain integrity and build lasting player trust during a time of high engagement,” said Fernando Justus Fischer, CEO at TQJ. “Jumio identity intelligence empowered us to streamline our verification processes and protect against unauthorized access, allowing our players to enjoy the matches in a secure environment."
Beyond traditional verification, the World Cup also served as a proving ground for Jumio’s reusable identity solution, selfie.DONE. Across LATAM – the first region where this solution is currently deployed – key gaming operators, including TQJ, leveraged selfie.DONE to streamline the experience for returning players. Hundreds of thousands of transactions were processed using this technology, offering players a fast-lane, document-free verification experience that maintained the highest standards of security even amidst intense tournament traffic.
To learn more about Jumio and its award-winning, AI-powered identity intelligence solutions, visit jumio.com.
About Jumio
Jumio helps organizations to know and trust their customers online. From account opening to ongoing monitoring, the Jumio Platform provides AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation and data-driven insights to accurately establish, maintain and reassert trust.
Leveraging powerful automated technology including biometric screening, AI/machine learning, liveness detection and no-code orchestration with hundreds of data sources, Jumio helps to fight fraud and financial crime, onboard customers faster and meet regulatory compliance including KYC and AML. Jumio has processed more than 1 billion transactions spanning over 200 countries and territories from real-time web and mobile transactions.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Jumio operates globally with offices and representation in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and has been the recipient of numerous awards for innovation. Jumio is backed by Centana Growth Partners, Great Hill Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners.
For more information, please visit www.jumio.com.
Jumio Proves Scale and Reliability During World Cup Gaming Surges
CAIRO (AP) — The United States and Iran each fired barrages of missiles Thursday, as the pattern of back-and-forth strikes took hold again and hope dimmed for any quick resolution.
After a brief respite, the risk of a return to all-out war emerged once more, with the fighting threatening to engulf even more countries: Jordan said Thursday it intercepted Iranian missiles for the second consecutive day, while Kuwait said a strike in the northern part of the country killed one person. Also this week, drones caused fires on ships at an Egyptian port, and Saudi Arabia said it came under fire from Iran-backed militias in Iraq.
The spiraling violence underscored the difficulty of winding down a five-month conflict that has sent the price of fuel and other basics soaring, jolted the world economy, and added to concerns about American stockpiles of weapons needed to defend its bases and allies. After an earlier hiatus had given hope that diplomatic efforts were moving forward, there was no public sign of progress.
An Iranian strike hit a Chinese firm’s building in Kuwait on Thursday, severely damaging the structure and killing a worker, Kuwait’s military said, hours after Jordan’s air defenses shot down five missiles launched from Iran.
No casualties were reported from Jordan’s interception, Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency said, quoting the spokesman for the country’s armed forces. Both countries are U.S. allies and host American troops.
The attacks came after the U.S. military said it completed “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran,” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan. President Donald Trump vowed to hit Iran “very hard” after it targeted the base.
The military's Central Command said in a social media post that the U.S. struck “dozens” of targets belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, including military command centers as well as missile and drone facilities, and coastal surveillance and defense sites.
Iran's official IRNA news agency said three people were killed and two were wounded in a strike on the island of Qeshm, which lies just off the Iranian mainland in the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial waterway for the world's energy supplies that has been at the center of the conflict.
The latest barrage came after the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Iran-backed militias in Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers on Wednesday.
Before the latest eruption, mediators had expressed optimism about bringing the U.S. and Iran back to the negotiating table.
Pakistan, which had helped broker an interim agreement to end the war, said Thursday that diplomatic efforts were continuing.
“The negotiations between the parties are ongoing to normalize the situation, particularly the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, and as well to de-escalate,” Pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said during a news briefing.
Elsewhere, British maritime security firm Ambrey said drone strikes ignited fires on two natural gas vessels at the Egyptian port of Damietta on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strikes on a U.S.-owned floating storage facility and a Greek-owned tanker. No injuries were reported.
The office of the Egyptian prime minister said initial investigations showed the fires on the two vessels had been caused by a drone.
Egypt, a close U.S. ally and regional mediator, is one of the only countries in the Middle East to have been spared direct military action during the war. A strike by Iran or its allies, if confirmed, would mark a significant widening of the conflict.
Asked during an Oval Office event if Iran was responsible for the strikes on the vessels, Trump responded: “It’s a little more of the same.”
The Damietta Port Authority said in a statement on Facebook on Thursday that the facility was fully operational.
Since Iran began threatening and firing on ships in the Strait of Hormuz early in the war, the conflict has wreaked havoc on the global economy as energy shipments through the waterway ground to a near halt. Much of the diplomacy around ending the war has focused on reopening the strait, through which 20% of oil and natural gas shipments passed in peacetime.
The strait is once again effectively closed — and in recent weeks, fighting elsewhere has squeezed energy supplies further.
Saudi Arabia has accused the Iraqi militias of firing drones against its oil facilities over the past days. An umbrella group of Iraqi militias initially denied the allegations, while another Iran-backed group — the Houthi rebels in Yemen — said they had attacked Saudi energy facilities as part of a separate but related conflict.
The Houthis have declared a blockade of Saudi shipping and threatened to choke off another crucial Middle East trade route, the Bab el-Mandeb strait from the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden. That route became even more important during the war, as Saudi Arabia used it to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
On Monday, the Houthis said they had launched drones targeting oil facilities used to transport oil across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. The rebels said the attack was in response to a Saudi drone they said breached Yemen’s airspace.
Planet Labs satellite imagery from Monday analyzed by The Associated Press showed damage to Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq oil-processing facility, which is capable of processing approximately 7 million barrels of crude oil per day.
Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman met separately on Wednesday with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment publicly about the private meetings.
They said the Saudi decision to join the U.S. attacks against the Iraqi militias was meant to send a message to Iran that it wouldn’t tolerate Iran or its proxies targeting the Saudi oil industry and other critical infrastructure. At the same time, the defense minister underscored to Trump and Vance that the Saudis want to see a de-escalation in the war and for Washington and Tehran to return to negotiations.
Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Associated Press writers Konstantin Toropin in Washington, Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad, and Fatma Khaled in Cairo contributed.
A damaged vehicle at the site of an airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces base in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
FILE - A man sits on a surfboard as a container ship and other commercial vessels appear anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, July 27, 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP, File)
