Abu Dhabi-based e7 Group has introduced a strategic partnership with 7I Holding, the regional affiliate of SICPA SA, a Swiss-based firm.
e7 Group works with authorities and personal sector purchasers worldwide to ship safe identification options, together with Nationwide ID playing cards, passports, banking playing cards, and extra. It at the moment serves federal authorities within the UAE, in addition to purchasers throughout the CIS, Africa, APAC, the Center East and LATAM areas and is amongst a choose few world identification options suppliers to carry industry-grade certifications for safety printing.
7I Holding is a GovTech agency based within the UAE, delivering safe, scalable, and sovereign expertise platforms that assist governments optimise nationwide income, fight counterfeiting, shield pure sources, and modernise public administration. Because the official regional companion of SICPA SA, it leverages world-class improvements comparable to SICPATRACE and SICPA Gas Integrity Options, together with different proprietary platforms.
The collaboration will allow each firms to leverage their respective portfolio in identification and authentication options, companion on Analysis & Improvement initiatives, and speed up innovation throughout a variety of safe and sovereign purposes, together with identification verification, model safety and fraud prevention.
Beneath the settlement, e7 Group and 7I Holding will collaborate throughout a number of areas, together with:
Excessive-capacity safe printing: e7 Group will present a professional capability to print six billion tax stamps yearly, offering 7I Holding’s purchasers with world-class SICPATrace Options.
Joint market growth: Each firms will collectively pursue markets of mutual curiosity, leveraging their mixed answer portfolios of each 7I Holding and e7 Group by strategic government-to-government (G2G) partnerships and different business channels.
Collaborative innovation and R&D: The partnership will concentrate on joint analysis and growth of cutting-edge identification options applied sciences, spanning throughout digital identification, fraud prevention, income mobilization and authentication options.
Ahmed Al Shamsi, Chairman of e7 Group, commented: “This strategic partnership with 7I Holding, a key affiliate of SICPA, represents a pivotal step in our mission to advance sovereign expertise options on a world scale.
“By combining our strengths, we’re uniquely positioned to ship safe, progressive platforms that assist governments and foster sustainable financial progress worldwide. This collaboration reinforces e7 Group’s dedication to excellence and management in identification options.”
e7 has a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi, which has an annual manufacturing of fifty million nationwide ID playing cards, 14 million passports (together with capability from Q1 2026), 25 million banking playing cards and 6 billion tax stamps (from finish of 2025).
Established in 1927, SICPA’s platform for sovereignty allows prospects to authenticate and safe their important belongings, by {custom} options primarily based on a century of mixed cutting-edge improvements in materials, digital and knowledge science domains. On the centre of each SICPA answer is a custom-crafted marker, distinctive to every nation. Appearing as a single supply of fact, these distinctive markers are deployed throughout the total worth chain to generate actionable and reliable insights in actual time. It’s best recognized for safeguarding the vast majority of the world’s banknotes.
Philippe Amon, chairman and CEO of SICPA SA, added: “We’re happy to see the continued growth of SICPA’s presence within the area by 7I Holding. This new partnership between 7I Holding and e7 Group additional strengthens that place and displays our shared dedication to delivering trusted applied sciences that assist governments worldwide in safeguarding revenues, defending residents, and enabling sustainable progress.”
Esteban Gómez Nadal, Chief Government Workplace of e7 Group, mentioned: “Partnering with 7I Holding permits us to speed up innovation and increase our world attain throughout the total spectrum of identification and safe options. This collaboration not solely secures a major share of our upcoming tax stamp capability but in addition opens new markets and drives the co-development of recent, progressive applied sciences that can meet the evolving wants of governments globally.”