Latest Biometrics News: Finextra Research

MayBank eases mobile log-ins with a choice of face, voice or fingeprint ID

Malaysia's MayBank is betting big on biometrics to replace password logins, adding facial and voice recognition to its fingerprint-protected mobile app.

24 November 2017

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Face ID today; digital DNA tomorrow

With the advent of Face ID on the iPhone, Travis Tyler, general manager, consumer digital at Westpac looks ahead to the next wave of innovation.

06 November 2017

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CommBank, first direct embrace Face ID for iPhone X app login

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has become the country's first bank to let customers access their accounts using the new iPhone X's Face ID technology. In the UK, first direct is the earliest out of the starting blocks, switching all apps on the new phone over to facial recognition.

03 November 2017

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Mobile apps replace bank branches for UK millennials

More than half of millennial Brits now regularly use their mobile phones to keep on top of their financial affairs, according to a Visa survey.

30 October 2017

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BofA taps Intel for online banking fingerprint authentication

Bank of America is teaming up with Intel to add biometric authentication to its online platform for PC users.

23 October 2017

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OCBC business customers can now ask Siri to make B2B payments

Singapore's OCBC Bank has integrated its business mobile banking app with Apple's Siri for use in voice-controlled funds transfers and account balance enquiries.

04 October 2017

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Brits give thumbs up to in-store biometrics

Nearly two thirds of Brits want to be able to use a biometric scan to authorise payments in-store, according to a WorldPay survey.

22 September 2017

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Brunel Uni students get a glimpse of the future with finger payments

Students arriving for Freshers' Week at Brunel University in London UK will be able to pay for goods at campus convenience store Costcutters with a touch of their finger at a Fingopay terminal installed by biometrics outfit Sthaler.

20 September 2017

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HSBC switches on selfie payments in China

HSBC customers in China can now make payments with a selfie, thanks to the introduction of facial recognition technology in the bank's mobile app.

18 September 2017

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iPhone X gets Face ID for Apple Pay

Apple has ditched Touch ID for Face ID in its new iPhone X, enabling users to authenticate themselves - including for Apple Pay and apps that support the feature - simply by looking at their handsets.

12 September 2017

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Aussie banks unveil new fintech features

Two Australian banks unveiled updates to their banking services with ANZ Bank launching a voice-based identity service for mobile banking and National Australia Bank (NAB) debuting a chatbot for its business banking service.

04 September 2017

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Citi taps into Cornell Tech talent

Citi is teaming up with Cornell University, leasing space at the Ivy League school's engineering campus in order to engage with students and faculty on areas such as blockchain and machine learning.

24 July 2017

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The eyes have it: TSB brings iris scanning to mobile app

TSB is claiming a European first by introducing iris scanning to its mobile banking app, eradicating the need to remember lengthy IDs or passwords.

20 July 2017

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Self-service kiosk vendor hit by hackers

US firm Avanti Markets says that nearly 2000 of its self-service payment kiosks have been infected with malware, putting customers' card data at risk.

12 July 2017

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SAP Financial Services Forum, London - Day 2 live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage from Day 2 of the SAP Financial Services Forum in London. The theme for this event is 'winning in the digital moment'. The agenda will examine how technologies such as AI, machine learning, analytics, blockchain, open APIs and the cloud can be best leveraged to deliver truly digitised financial services.

05 July 2017

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Nets experiments with finger payments at Idea Lab

Nordic payments processor Nets is working with UK biometric company Sthaler to trial the use of finger vein recognition technology to authenticate users at the point-of-sale.

28 June 2017

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BBVA spawns new biometrics company Veridas out of two-year startup partnership

BBVA and the startup Das-Nano have formed Veridas, a new biometrics technology company that will develop client identification and authentication systems.

20 June 2017

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Biometric identity platform AimBrain raises £4m

AimBrain, a London-based startup using machine learning to help financial services firms tap into biometric authentication, has raised £4 million in a Series A funding round led by BGF Ventures.

20 June 2017

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Will words and gestures replace plastic cards and cash?

The man who invented an early form of text messaging for fixed line networks while working at BT believes that in the future people will use words and gestures to pay for transactions, ditching payment cards altogether.

15 June 2017

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Swift Business Forum, New York - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum in New York. This event will focus on the key issues affecting the financial industry, including banking, payments, and securities. Cyber security will also be a hot topic, in light of the announcement of Swift's Customer Security Programme.

14 June 2017