France, April 29 -- Following a competitive bid process, Amadeus announces its intention to acquire IDEMIA Public Security (IPS), a leading biometrics and identity services provider headquartered in France.IPS has a global footprint and a diversified customer base across public and private sectors, and the €1.2 billion acquisition, on closing will further strengthen Amadeus' biometric and identity capabilities, leveraging IPS' market-leading technology, end-to-end platform, and strong global blue-chip-client base. It will follow Amadeus' 2024 acquisition of Vision-Box.With trusted digital identity becoming a foundational layer across the end-to-end travel journey, and as biometric adoption quickly accelerates across the travel industr...