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Mswipe and Transcorp to issue biometric payments cards in India

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) and Mswipe, one of India’s leading end-to-end digital enablers for SMEs, will collaborate and bring biometric debit and credit cards to India, targeting 940 million active payment card customers.

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Bonifii picks Mastercard as open banking provider

Mastercard was announced today as the preferred open banking provider for Bonifii’s participating credit unions to access consumer-permissioned bank data to inform underwriting for different loan types across mortgage, auto, personal and small business.

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Crypto exchange HollaEx taps iDenify for ID verification

iDenfy, the Lithuanian identity verification and fraud prevention company, joins forces with HollaEx, an open-source cryptocurrency exchange platform for businesses.

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Swedish payments institution Rocker to roll out biometric payment cards

IDEX Biometrics ASA announces that the Swedish banking challenger Rocker is teaming up with IDEMIA and IDEX Biometrics to launch Rocker Touch, becoming the first in Sweden and one of the first in the world to scale deployment of biometric cards to consumers.

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Trulioo appoints Ramsbacker as CPO to advance digital identity strategy

Trulioo, the leading global identity verification company, today announced the appointment of Michael Ramsbacker as its first Chief Product Officer. A veteran product management leader, Ramsbacker has over 20 years of experience in the strategic execution of product strategies, particularly in the B2B technology industry. Ramsbacker will oversee the launch of new digital identity verification solutions via Trulioo GlobalGateway, the world’s largest network of identity data and services.

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Face pay startup DigiDoe raises £850,000

DIGIDOE, the UK-based startup which is on a march to revolutionise the world’s outdated payments infrastructure, has secured more than £850,000 from new investors.

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Fingerprint Cards gains Mastercard recognition

Fingerprint Cards AB’s (Fingerprints) second-generation T-Shape sensor module and software platform for biometric payment cards have achieved compliance with Mastercard’s new Fingerprint Sensor Evaluation Process.

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Biometric face authentication firm iProov raises $70 million

iProov, the world leader in online biometric face authentication, today announced a $70 million (USD) growth investment from Sumeru Equity Partners(“Sumeru”).

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Zwipe and Forzacard to launch biometric payment cards in Mexico

Biometric fintech company Zwipe and Forzacard, the leading domestic card manufacturer in Mexico, have agreed to develop and launch biometric cards powered by Zwipe and bring these innovations to banks and organizations looking for the latest solutions based on biometric card-authentication in Central and North America.

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Eurostar lets customers complete tickets and passport checks at home with biometric ID

iProov, the world leader in biometric face authentication technology, and Eurostar, the high-speed passenger rail service linking the UK with mainland Europe, has announced that its trial of a contactless fast-track service, SmartCheck, is now live.

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Account-to-account payments platform Vyne now live with 10 brands

Vyne, the specialist open banking powered account-to-account payments platform, today announces that its payment solution is now live on the checkouts of 10 brands in the THG plc portfolio; namely Myprotein, Glossybox, ESPA, Zavvi, Coggles, mio Skincare, Myvegan, Beauty Expert, Allsole and Pop In A Box. It’s the first step in a wider integration that will see Vyne’s solution offered as a payment method for 25 THG brands in total.

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GBG acquires Acuant

GB Group plc (AIM: GBG), the experts in digital location, identity and identity fraud software, has today announced that it has reached agreement to acquire Acuant, a leading identity verification and KYC/AML compliance provider, for a cash-free, debt-free enterprise value of $736 million. The acquisition of Acuant brings together two of the leaders in the global digital identity market with a combined revenue of c.£265 million.

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Sift acquires biometric-based authentication provider Keyless

Sift, the leader in Digital Trust & Safety, today announced that it has acquired Keyless, a pioneer in passwordless and multi-factor authentication.

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Callsign joins the Visa Fintech Partner Connect programme

Visa chooses Callsign, as their preferred behavioral biometric digital and device intelligence identity provider.

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Fingerprints and Infineon enable biometric authentication solely in the Secure Element

World-leading biometrics company Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) has enabled biometric authentication to be executed entirely within Infineon’s Secure Element, making it cheaper and easier for card manufacturers to develop and roll out biometric payment cards at scale.

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FPC accelerates biometric payment card deployment in India

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) and Seshaasai, an innovative and leading smart card manufacturer in India with a commanding APAC presence, have entered into an agreement to develop, launch, market, and sell contactless biometric payment cards in India and APAC.

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ADIB becomes the first UAE bank to use facial recognition for secure account opening

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading financial institution, with alignment to the UAE government vision in promoting digital services, pleased to announce opening of accounts remotely and digitally.

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Moscow Metro to introduce Face Pay

Moscow Metro reduced queues for tickets by 3.3 times in 10 years, reports the city’s Department for Transport.

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Everest integrates blockchain API with Oracle financial crime suite

Everest, a regulated fin-tech company with blockchain solutions for biometric identification, custodian, and banking services, collaborates with Oracle Financial Services to enable customers to use Everest’s Application Programming Interface (API) and adopt identity verification and biometric identification services provided by Everest.

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ICPS partners with Zwipe to bring fingerprint cards to Africa and Asia

Biometric fintech company, Zwipe and ICPS, a leading international card payment processor and card personalization bureau, are partnering to bring Zwipe Pay ONE enabled biometric payment cards to banks across Africa and Asia.

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