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The number of recorded fraud cases in the UK rose five per cent last year, to nearly 250,000, according to Cifas, with identity theft accounting for more than half of all incidences.
21 January 2013
PayPal has won a contract with the UK government to help build and run a secure online identity registration service for people accessing public services.
17 January 2013
Visa and a group of Indian banks are tapping the country's biometrics-based national identity system to bring financial services and electronic payments to tens of millions of people.
13 December 2012
Standard Chartered Bank's Singapore unit has unveiled a payment card featuring an embedded security token for online transactions.
06 November 2012
A group of French banks, IT firms and retailers are trialling a point-of-sale system that combines biometrics and contactless cards to enable customers to pay with their fingertips.
24 October 2012
A new, sophisticated breed of cyber-crooks targeting bank accounts belonging to businesses and high-net worth individuals around the world may have stolen EUR60 million over the last year, according to an investigation from McAfee and Guardian Analytics.
26 June 2012
Online identity verification start-up miiCard has secured £1.6 million in a second seed funding round joined by New Wave Ventures, IQ Capital and Par Equity.
30 April 2012
BT has outlined plans for a cloud-based secure identity management system for financial services firms using Hitachi Europe's biometric technology.
25 April 2012
Tired of manually resetting forgotten staff passwords, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) has automated the process using biometric voice authentication technology.
28 March 2012
Over 80% of US banks and credit unions plan to invest in new technologies to help them conform to new FFIEC online banking security guidance, according to a survey from vendor Guardian Analytics.
16 December 2011
Responding to user concerns, start-up Movenbank has moved to allay privacy and security fears over its use of Facebook for registration and log-in to the site.
29 November 2011
MasterCard has teamed up with chip giant Intel to make online shopping simpler and more secure by letting customers tap their cards or phones against computers to complete payments.
14 November 2011
The Canadian government is to use bank-issued credentials from TD Bank, Scotiabank and BMO to enable citizens to obtain access to public services online.
07 November 2011
Security outfit Trusteer has discovered a new attack used by the SpyEye Trojan that can circumvent mobile SMS security measures used by many banks.
07 October 2011
ING Belgium has selected Gemalto's Ezio suite of end-to-end authentication technology to secure its million online banking customers.
01 September 2011
MiiCard, a digital passport outfit that is competing in the Innotribe start-up contest at Sibos this year, has raised £550,000 in seed funding and completed a management buyout.
31 August 2011
US banks have been told by regulators to improve online banking authentication to protect customers increasingly at risk from fraud.
29 June 2011
Russia's Sberbank is planning to roll out ATMs that use voice analysis software to tell whether customers are lying when they apply for credit cards, according to the New York Times.
09 June 2011
Indian fintech vendor Polaris Software has agreed to buy an 85% stake in digital identity authentication outfit IndenTrust for $20 million.
04 May 2011
Consult Hyperion is running a pilot that will see people use Visa's CodeSure payment card - which includes an integrated PIN pad to generate one-time-use security codes - to access government services.
02 December 2010
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