Latest Biometrics News: Finextra Research

Spanish fintech accelerator calls for international applicants

A Spanish bank-backed fintech incubator and accelerator is inviting startups from Europe and Latin America to apply for four-month programme at its base in Valencia.

16 December 2016

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Sumitomo Financial Group trials facial recognition tech

Sumitomo Financial Group is testing facial recognition technology from NEC on purchases made by employees at its banking and cards operations.

14 December 2016

Company update/Biometrics

First National Bank adds touch ID to FNB Direct mobile banking app

First National Bank of Pennsylvania, the largest subsidiary of F.N.B. Corporation (FNB), today announced the addition of Touch ID® fingerprint-based authentication to its FNB Direct mobile banking app.

13 December 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Precise Biometrics to acquire the business of NexID Biometrics

Precise Biometrics, a leader in fingerprint software, has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of NexID Biometrics, a specialist in spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions for the biometric authentication industry, for 32 million SEK in cash.

13 December 2016

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Citi fintech unit taps agile methodologies to craft new mobile app

Citibank is rolling out a new mobile app that combines banking, wealth management and money movement features on a single biometrically-secured application.

08 December 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Former HSBC fintech head joins biometric authentication outfit Veridium as CEO

Veridium, a leader in biometrics-based authentication technology, today announced the appointment of new CEO James Stickland.

07 December 2016

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Leumi Card turns to behavioural biometrics for app user authentication

The credit card unit of Israel's Bank Leumi is ditching passwords in its mobile app in favour of behavioural biometrics from local startup SecuredTouch.

22 November 2016

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Mobile bank Bunq implements handprint bio-capture

Dutch mobile-only bank bunq is securing customer log-in with a biometric form factor that requires customers to present four fingerprints to access their data.

18 November 2016

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NatWest trials BioCatch behavioural biometrics

NatWest has been trialling technology from BioCatch, an Israeli startup that uses behavioural biometrics to authenticate visitors to websites.

17 November 2016

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Visa looks to kill passwords with multiple biometric authentication options

Visa is stepping up its efforts to kill off the password, teaming up with BioConnect to bring multiple biometric authentication options to a single app.

14 November 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Samsung to license Precise Biometric's tech for fingerprint sensing on mobile

Precise Biometrics, a leader in fingerprint software, has entered into a commercial software license and distribution agreement with Samsung’s System LSI Business, a division within Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., for the licensing of Precise Biometrics’ algorithm solution for fingerprint recognition in mobile devices, Precise BioMatch Mobile.

08 November 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Citi introduces Touch ID

Citibank announces the launch of Touch ID Sensor authentication service in Hong Kong, allowing for a full suite of mobile banking services, including transaction, investment and enquiry, to be performed via its Citi Mobile® App on the iOS platform with iPhone 5s or later models1.

07 November 2016

Company update/Biometrics

BioCatch upgrades behavioural biometrics platform

BioCatch, the global leader in behavioral biometrics, announced today it has launched its next-generation platform to optimize the implementation and performance of behavioral biometrics online and on mobile at the enterprise level.

03 November 2016

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Self Bank offers remote customer registration with video-conferencing

Self Bank, the Spanish online banking subsidiary of French financial group Boursorama, is using a combination of video-conferencing, biometrics and electronic signatures, to cut registration times for new customers joining the bank.

01 November 2016

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Enacomm unveils virtual personal assistant banking with voice biometric authentication

Banking customers can now securely access their financial information in real-time and safely conduct almost any financial transaction with popular Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs), using only the sound of their voice.

24 October 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Fido Alliance partners EMVCo on mobile payments security

Fido Alliance, the industry consortium developing open, interoperable authentication standards, announced today that it will work with EMVCo to add convenience and security to in-store and in-app EMV®-compliant mobile payments.

24 October 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Jumio brings facial recognition to KYC process

Jumio, the leading digital ID verification company, today announced the company has added the ability to conduct biometric facial recognition to Netverify.

24 October 2016

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Eckoh brings Apple Pay to voice calls

Eckoh and WorldPay have carried out what they claim is the world's first Apple Pay payment via a phone voice call.

20 October 2016

Company update/Biometrics

MoneyRouter to secure cash transers with thumbprint biometric

Following the successful launch of their MoneyRouter software at the end of September, innovators in banking technology, Route Trading, unveil their latest weapon to combat international money laundering – biometric fingerprinting.

18 October 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Indian microfinance institution Ujjivan to launch biometric ATMs

Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd., (Ujjivan), a leading pan-India microfinance institution, which is in process of transforming into a small finance bank (SFB), today announced that it will provide the benefits of ATMs to its unbanked and under-served customers across the country by using biometric enabled machines.

18 October 2016