Latest Biometrics News: Finextra Research

Voice biometrics prove a hit for Citi in Asia Paficic

Citibank has enrolled one million Asia Pacific customers in its voice biometric authentication programme, hitting the milestone within ten months of the introduction of the technology in May 2016.

23 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Union Bank of the Philippines applies Daon biometric authentication to mobile channel

Union Bank of the Philippines has launched the New EON, a digital banking platform, that uses Daon’s IdentityX® Platform and its capabilities for mobile biometric authentication in order to improve security and the customer experience.

22 March 2017

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Poland's Alior to slash branch network in 'digital disruptor' push

Poland's Alior Bank is vowing to cement its place as a leading 'digital disrupter' over the next three years, slashing the size of its branch network and pumping money into technology.

17 March 2017

News/Biometrics

Samsung Galaxy S8 to use facial recognition for payments - Bloomberg

Samsung's new Galaxy S8 flagship handset will use facial-recognition technology to verify payments, according to Bloomberg.

16 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

UL gains biometric accreditation from banks in Brazil

UL is proud to announce that its lab in São Paulo has been accredited by the leading banking association, to provide certification services of biometric processes for banks within the country.

13 March 2017

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Startup trials POS palm payments

A Chicago startup has built a biometrics-based payments system that lets people make purchases by holding their hands over a scanner at the point-of-sale.

10 March 2017

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USAA licenses security technology to Indian software house

US military bank USAA has licensed development rights to its proprietary security technology to Indian software house Persistent Systems.

01 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

G&D couples video verification with Danal Mobile ID for KYC

G&D, a global leader in mobile security solutions and Danal Inc., a global leader in mobile identity, authentication & verification services, will jointly present a solution at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the G&D Video Identification service coupled with Danal Mobile ID services, present a very strong remote KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliant offer for online regulated industries.

28 February 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Cisco chair John Chambers invests in Pindrop

Pindrop, the pioneer in voice security and authentication, today announced new board additions including John Chambers, Executive Chairman at Cisco, and Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

23 February 2017

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Visa opens London innovation centre

Visa has opened its largest innovation centre to date in London, with the aim of hosting partners and clients from across Europe to collaborate on new ways to pay.

21 February 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Nuance and BioCatch team up on biometrics-based fraud detection

Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced from the RSA Conference that it has partnered with BioCatch, the global leader in behavioral biometrics to deliver continuous authentication on the web and mobile as part of the Nuance Security Suite solution.

14 February 2017

Company update/Biometrics

MePIN introduces biometric authentication for CNP transactions

MePIN / Meontrust Inc, the forerunner in Strong Customer Authentication user experience, introduced additional biometric authentication options to it's MePIN Universal Authentication platform.

13 February 2017

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Emirates NBD to roll-out biometrically-enabled 'Cockpit' dashboard to all branches

Emirates NBD has connected 14 different siloed applications to provide branch staff with a 360-degree single view of all customer relationships, combined with biometric digital signatures for paperless transactions and data-driven insights.

06 February 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Yapı Kredi enlists EyeVerify for eye biometrics-based mobile logins

Yapı Kredi, the first national private bank of Turkey co-owned by Koç Holding, one of the biggest conglomerates of Turkey, and UniCredit, the largest banking group of Europe, is the first bank in Europe to use Eyeprint ID for mobile login, and the first bank across the globe to offer Eyeprint ID for mobile banking login and cardless cash withdrawals.

31 January 2017

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FingoPay unveiled at London music venue

The UK's first implementation of finger vein biometrics for authenticating user payments has taken place at a music venue in London.

31 January 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Fingerprint Cards’ board member Lars Söderfjell taken into custody

The Swedish Economic Crime Authority has today taken Fingerprint Cards’ member of the Board Lars Söderfjell into custody for alleged market abuse in conjunction with the company’s profit warning in December 2016.

23 January 2017

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China's Ant Financial goes global in bid for two billion users in 10 years

Ant Financial, the payments unit of Chinese Web giant Alibaba, is looking into the use of blockchain technology as it sets its sights on boosting its user numbers to two billion people within the next decade.

20 January 2017

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Al Rahji installs fingerprint readers for instant card issuance

Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank has introduced biometric fingerprint readers for instant issuance of customer debit cards across its branch network.

19 January 2017

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Yapı Kredi introduces eye scanning for app logins

In what it claims is a European first, Turkish digital bank Yapı Kredi is to start letting customers log into their mobile accounts by scanning their eyes.

18 January 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Fujitsu ports palm vein authentication to tablets and mobile devices

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has announced development of the world's first slide-style palm vein authentication technology. This technology is compact enough to be equipped to future tablets and other handheld mobile devices.

13 January 2017