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News/Authentication
Google has acquired SlickLogin, an Israeli startup which is bidding to replace passwords with sounds. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
17 February 2014
Nigeria's banks have embarked on a massive biometrics project, registering the fingerprints and facial features of customers in a bid to fight fraud and money laundering.
US Bank is piloting voice biometrics technology which allows customers to access their accounts by speaking into their mobile phones.
12 February 2014
Many of the world's biggest banks have serious security flaws in their mobile apps which could leave customers - and the banks themselves - vulnerable to attackers, research from IOActive suggests.
13 January 2014
Identity-theft firm LifeLock is upping its mobile presence with the acquisition of mobile-wallet start-up Lemon for an initial consideration of $42.6 million.
12 December 2013
With $5.5 million in funding behind it and a technology platform from Nasdaq OMX, Singapore-based bitcoin exchange itBit has launched, promising to professionalise the virtual currency trading arena.
12 November 2013
TSB Bank has become the first private firm in New Zealand to tap into the government-run RealMe online ID scheme, enabling new customers to sign up for accounts from their mobile phone apps.
11 November 2013
Ingenico is stepping up its presence in Latin America, working with a local firm to bring biometric technology to government benefit payments.
24 October 2013
Applying a combination of NFC technology and contactless bank cards, IBM has developed a simple two-factor authentication protocol for users conducting mobile transactions.
21 October 2013
MasterCard has joined the Fido Alliance, which is bidding to replace password-based online authentication with an industry-supported open protocol tied to the actual device used to access services.
11 October 2013
Visa, MasterCard and American Express want to overhaul global e-commerce security, ditching account numbers in favour of digital tokens for online and mobile transactions.
01 October 2013
Private equity firms Parallax Capital Partners and StepStone Group have acquired a majority stake in digital identity authentication outfit IdenTrust. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
27 September 2013
NatWest and RBS have been crowned the UK's most secure online banking providers by consumer group Which?, with Santander ranked bottom of the pile.
26 September 2013
Canadian start-up Bionym is promising to make passwords, keys and wallets relics of the past with a bracelet that authenticates its wearer through their heartbeat.
04 September 2013
Shops in Richmond, London, have begun trialling mobile payments technology from PayPal which lets customers verify themselves at the checkout using a photo and their first name.
08 August 2013
RuPay, the Indian bank-backed debit card scheme, has been enabled for e-commerce transactions over the Internet, extending its challenge to Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
24 June 2013
A UK voice biometrics start-up has launched an iPhone app it says could replace PINs as a way to validate financial transactions.
19 June 2013
Trustev, an Irish firm which uses 'social fingerprinting' technology to verify online shoppers in real time, has won the European Commission's Tech All Stars competition.
14 June 2013
A Bangladesh micro-banking initiative is issuing biometric smart cards from Gemalto to the country's unbanked, enabling them to authenticate transactions through their fingerprints.
03 June 2013
The Nigerian government has commenced the roll out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with biometric and electronic payment capability as a pilot programme.
09 May 2013
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