Latest Biometrics News: Finextra Research

Mastercard aims to kill passwords and manual card entry by 2030

Mastercard has set itself the target of using tokenisation and biometrics to eliminate manual card entry, passwords and one-time codes for online purchases by 2030.

14 November 2024

News/security

Visa and Tencent bring palm payments to Singapore

Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent has teamed up with Visa to take its palm recognition technology for digital payments international, beginning with Singapore.

11 November 2024

News/wholesale

AFP: Fraud is the biggest painpoint for accounts payables automation

Kicking off the first day of AFP, the conference for finance and treasury professionals held in Nashville, Tennessee this year, Mike Watercott, CTP, working capital consultant, US Bank, led a discussion on striking the balance in payments with Andy Sullivan, vice president of channel sales, Bottomline and Cynthia MacGeagh, treasury manager, Clayton Homes.

21 October 2024

News/security

Banks in Singapore add facial verification to security toolkit

Banks in Singapore will progressively implement Singpass Face Verification (SFV) over the next three months to strengthen the digital token (DT) setup process for retail banking customers.

19 September 2024

News/security

Mastercard debuts Payment Passkeys in India

Mastercard is to debut its Payment Passkey service in India, bringing biometric authentication to online shopping.

29 August 2024

News/payments

JP Morgan preps more biometric payment pilots

JP Morgan is teaming up with vendor PopID to trial pay-by-face biometric payments with merchants across the US.

07 August 2024

News/ai

Finextra launches NextGen:AI, a new event defining AI's future in financial services

Join Finextra in London on 26th November 2024 to challenge the perception of AI and its role in financial services.

14 June 2024

News/payments

Google Pay lets customers ditch CVVs for biometrics

Google Pay has received a revamp to make it easier for shoppers to see card benefits, use BNPL on more sites, and ditch CVV codes in favour of biometrics at checkout.

23 May 2024

News/regulation

Australia passes Digital ID Bill

The Australian Government has passed the Digital ID Bill 2024 and Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2024.

17 May 2024

News/identity

Permira to take majority stake in BioCatch

PE firm Permira is buying a majority position in BioCatch in a deal that values the Israeli behavioural biometrics company at $1.3 billion.

03 May 2024

News/retail

Bank of Ireland to equip call centres with single customer view and voice biometrics

Bank of Ireland is spending €34 million to overhaul its call centre operations, providing operators with a single customer view and introducing voice biometrics for added security.

01 May 2024

News/identity

NextGen Nordics 2024: Can behavioural biometrics fix fraud?

Moderating her second panel of the day - Fraud prevention and AML: the need for behavioural biometrics in this instant age - Finextra’s senior reporter Niamh Curran spoke to Megan Heald, senior project manager at NICE Actimize, John Sam-Kubam, senior vice president at Crown Agents Bank, Beju Shah, head of Nordic centre at the Bank of International Settlements, and Robert Woods, director international market planning and financial services SME at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.

25 April 2024

News/security

Mastercard harnesses AI to take on scammers

Mastercard is tackling the growing threat of scams through the launch of an AI-based product suite and several cross-industry partnerships.

25 April 2024

News/crypto

Worldcoin banned in Portugal over privacy concerns

Worldcoin, the crypto biometric project fronted by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, has been temporarily banned in Portugal over data privacy concerns.

27 March 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: Top Nordics payments stories you’ve missed this year

Finextra is returning to Stockholm for the annual NextGen Nordics event. Attendees can expect in-depth conversations on a variety of topics and much more.

19 March 2024

News/retail

MPE 2024: Tokenisation in the ecommerce space

In a panel discussing tokenisation, panellists Suzana Kordumova, product manager at Netcetera, Stephan Hackenberg solution sales director at Giesecke+Devrient, Matteo Gamba, head of product - global payments and fraud at Wayfair, and John Noltensmeyer CISO at Tokenex spoke on network tokenisation and what tokenisation can do for merchant payments.

14 March 2024

News/payments

JPMorgan plans major roll out of biometric payments

JPMorgan Chase is planning a broad roll out of biometric payments with US retailers by early next year, enabling shoppers to make purchases by scanning their palms or faces.

14 March 2024

News/payments

MPE 2024: What does a smart city look like?

In a keynote presentation at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 in Berlin, Hemlata Narasimhan, president of Elavon explored what a smart city could look like in 2030, using Venice, Italy as a case study.

13 March 2024

News/crypto

MPE 2024: What will be the impact of a digital euro?

At the Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 conference in Berlin, Evelien Witlox from the European Central Bank (ECB) presented a keynote on the possibilities of a digital euro.

13 March 2024

News/payments

MPE 2024: How are merchants implementing AI in payments?

At the Merchants Payments Ecosystem conference 2024, Chairwoman Anna Maj moderated the session ‘Next-Generation Technologies for Merchant Payments’, speaking to a panel of experts including Bartosz Skwarczek of GZA Capital Group, Galit Shani-Michel from Forter, Bono van Nijnatten from ASOS Payments, and Francesco Burelli of Arkwright Consulting. Maj questioned the panelists on how AI is being used in merchant payments and where AI can take their companies in the future.

12 March 2024