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Barclays is ditching passwords in favour of voice biometrics technology at its call centres, meaning that customers will be authenticated when they start talking.
01 August 2016
Barclays has teamed up with Samsung on an internal hackathon in which the bank's staffers work to build mobile services that tap the electronics giant's security technology.
21 July 2016
A new payment network is aiming to help banks turn compliance with the latest payment services directive into a money-spinning exercise.
07 June 2016
Deloitte UK is working on a 'Smart Identity' blockchain prototype enabling users to create a set of federated digital credentials for a range of applications, from access management to customer verification.
04 May 2016
As MasterCard prepares to bring facial recognition payment services to the UK, US and Canada, research shows that the Dutch prefer selfies to passwords for online shopping authentication.
22 February 2016
Dutch banks are banding together on a digital identification service which will let online customers use their login details to access other commercial and government sites.
02 November 2015
Capital One is offering customers the chance to replace security questions for some transactions with a simple swipe of their mobile phones.
23 October 2015
MasterCard is embarking on two pilots, one in the US and one in the Netherlands, which use facial recognition technology for payment verification.
18 August 2015
Taiwan's CTBC Bank has launched a pilot version of an ATM that uses both facial recognition and finger-vein scanning to verify identity.
10 August 2015
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.
22 July 2015
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.
02 July 2015
The financial affiliate of Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba has launched MYbank, an online lender targeting the country's small- and medium-sized businesses.
26 June 2015
In a North American first, Eastern Bank is replacing security questions with voice biometric authentication for customers calling its service centre.
19 June 2015
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.
16 June 2015
India's Icici Bank is introducing voice recognition technology at its call centres, enabling customers to authenticate themselves simply by speaking.
25 May 2015
Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and handset maker Fujitsu have unveiled a smartphone that authenticates users for mobile payments by scanning their irises.
13 May 2015
People may only just be coming round to the idea of using their fingerprints to authenticate themselves, but a PayPal executive is already looking ahead to a time when we embed and ingest devices that identify us at the point-of-sale.
20 April 2015
Commmonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is making a move into the point-of-sale hardware market, teaming up with German tech firm Wincor Nixdorf and Ideo to launch a seven inch Android-based tablet system dubbed Albert.
31 March 2015
The final design has been unveiled for the dramatically restyled £1 coin, complete with 12 sides and a host of new features that purportedly make it the most secure coin in the world.
18 March 2015
MasterCard has been contracted by the Egyptian government to roll out a digital ID programme that links citizens’ national ID to the country's existing mobile money platform.
03 March 2015
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