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Biometrics payment startup Zwipe raises $5m

Zwipe, which launched the world’s first fingerprint authenticated payment card on 17 October last year, today announced that it has raised $5 million in equity from Photon Future Ltd.

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Vasco adds Cronto digital signing tech to Digipass authenticators

VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (NASDAQ: VDSI), a global leader in authentication, electronic signatures, and identity management, announced today two new DIGIPASS authenticators with Cronto-based visual transaction signing capabilities.

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Touch ID authentication added to PNC mobile banking app

PNC Bank, N.A. now offers commercial customers Touch ID authentication to access its Pinacle mobile banking app for iPhone.

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Avoka launches on-boarding transaction platform

Avoka, the leader in digital customer acquisition for the financial services industry, has today launched Avoka Transact Bundles, a frictionless way for retail financial institutions and wealth managers to onboard customers onto multiple products from one digital application.

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Trunomi closes $3 million capital rise

Trunomi, a provider of consent-based Know Your Customer (KYC) data-sharing technology, announced that it closed a $3 million capital raise, led by Saturn Partners with additional participation by Fenway Summer, Persistent Ventures and SenaHill Partners.

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Luxembourg’s banks choose Worldline’s ACS platform for 3D-Secure

Worldline, European market leader in payment and transactional services, has been selected by the Luxembourg banking community to provide its Access Control Server solution for 3D-Secure, in cooperation with LuxTrust, a Luxembourg-based certification authority.

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HID Global extends identity assurance product for banks

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today expanded its broad offering of its identity assurance portfolio with the addition of the ActivID® Flexi Token.

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MasterCard trials selfie payments in the Netherlands and US

MasterCard is embarking on two pilots, one in the US and one in the Netherlands, which use facial recognition technology for payment verification.

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Taiwan bank trials face-recognition ATM

Taiwan's CTBC Bank has launched a pilot version of an ATM that uses both facial recognition and finger-vein scanning to verify identity.

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Card fraud rises across Europe - ECB

The European Central Bank (ECB) has reported an eight percent increase in fraud among cards issued or acquired within the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) for 2013.

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NXT-ID files patent for personalised token payments

NXT-ID, a biometric authentication company focused on the growing mobile commerce market and creator of the Wocket® smart wallet, announces that it has filed provisional patent 62/192218 for Personalized Tokenization System and Method.

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Avox granted ISO certification for info security management

Avox Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the industry leader in legal entity reference data, today announced that it has been awarded International Standard Organisation (ISO) 27001 Certification from the British Standards Institution (BSI).

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BioCatch granted US patents

BioCatch, the global leader in Behavioral Biometrics, Authentication and Malware Detection, announced today that the US Patent Office granted the company two new patents that extend the Company’s ability to authenticate PC and mobile device-users through the application of behavioral biometrics.

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Mobile banking biometrics gains traction

Banks are rapidly adopting biometrics as an authentication method for mobile services and are willing to cooperate to provide customers with a common interface, according to a survey from the Mobey Forum.

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Alibaba affiliate launches online bank

The financial affiliate of Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba has launched MYbank, an online lender targeting the country's small- and medium-sized businesses.

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OceanFirst Bank integrates Touch ID into iOS app

OceanFirst Bank, the largest and oldest community bank headquartered in Ocean County, N.J., is working with Digital Insight, an NCR company, to offer OceanFirst Bank customers Touch ID functionality with its mobile banking application.

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Eastern Bank rolls out voice authentication tech at call centre

In a North American first, Eastern Bank is replacing security questions with voice biometric authentication for customers calling its service centre.

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One in four would share DNA with their bank to secure personal information

Most people who use mobile banking apps want to tap biometrics, rather than passwords, to access their accounts, according to research from Oz telco Telstra which also shows that a quarter of respondents would even share their DNA with their banks if it boosted security and ease of access.

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Mitek agrees $10.6m IDchecker acquisition

MITK, the leading innovator of mobile capture and identity solutions for customer acquisition, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IDchecker, a global provider of cloud based identity document verification and facial recognition solutions, for an aggregate purchase price of up to $10.6 million, of which $5.85 million will be payable in cash, $2.75 million in Mitek common shares at the close of the acquisition, and, subject to the achievement of certain revenue and net income targets for IDchecker through September 30, 2016, up to an additional $2 million in Mitek common shares.

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Icici rolls out voice recognition tech

India's Icici Bank is introducing voice recognition technology at its call centres, enabling customers to authenticate themselves simply by speaking.