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News/security
Mastercard is to conduct the first pilot in Asia of a biometric card that uses a fingerprint to authorise transactions at in-store payment terminals.
21 October 2020
News/identity
Barclays, Citi, HSBC and National Australia Bank have invested $20 million in Israeli behavioral biometrics company BioCatch, topping up a Series C funding round.
01 October 2020
News/payments
Amazon has unveiled technology that lets shoppers at physical stores pay for their purchases by scanning the palm of their hands.
30 September 2020
Hungarian startup PeasyPay is preparing to expand its biometrics-based point-of-sale payments technology to Spain and the UK.
11 September 2020
With California imposing strict restrictions to stem the spread of Covid-19, a group of restaurants and retailers in the city of Pasadena have rolled out pay-by-face technology.
20 August 2020
Biometric vein mapping from FinGo is to be used by Manchester cocktail bar and restaurant The Alchemist to provide proof-of-age, payments and test and trace capabilities through a simple scan of the user’s finger.
03 August 2020
News/retail
DBS is working with Singapore's government to pilot the use of the SingPass face verification technology to sign up customers to digital banking services.
30 July 2020
BNP Paribas is to roll out its first batch of contactless fingerprint cards this autumn.
29 June 2020
In a move that could signal the beginning of the end for passwords, NatWest is teaming up with Visa to test the use of behavioural biometrics for the upcoming Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) rules.
15 June 2020
Caixabank is embarking on a project to roll out facial recogntion technology at 100 ATMs throughout Spain, enabling users to make withdrawals without using a PIN code.
10 June 2020
DBS Hong Kong is introducing a new retirement planning tool that paints a visual portrait of what customers will look like when they reach their golden years.
09 June 2020
Google is piloting a feature that lets people authorise purchases with their voice through its Assistant tool.
27 May 2020
News/crypto
South Korea's LG CNS is trialling a pay-by-face system at its staff cafeteria that uses AI, blockchain and cloud technology to let people pay with a special "community currency".
23 April 2020
Mizuho Bank has begun proof-of-concept trials of Digital ID based on device location and facial recognition to improve online banking authentication and ongoing customer due diligence.
14 April 2020
HSBC claims that the introduction of voice biometrics at its call centres has prevented almost £400 million of customers’ money from falling into the hands of telephone fraudsters in 2019.
16 March 2020
News/regulation
The true benefits and complexities of transformative regulation across financial services is set to become reality in 2020, as firms work to prepare and implement systems to meet compliance standards while maintaining a competitive edge.
06 March 2020
News/Biometrics
The Pontiff is the latest public figure to offer an opinion on the ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI), issuing a set of principles on the use of new technology.
28 February 2020
In a post-financial crisis world, financial institutions are under pressure to transition from using the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to the new Sonia rate, that is overseen by the Bank of England.
30 January 2020
Amazon is attempting to turn your hand into a credit card, according to the Wall Street Journal.
20 January 2020
Worldline is to stage the first live demonstrations of a new pay-by-face system at the National Retail Federation expo in New York later this month.
03 January 2020
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