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Robot heart surgeons more trusted than robot bankers

New research from HSBC has found that people would rather put their faith in a robot to perform open-heart surgery than trust one to open a savings account or provide mortgage advice.

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Twins fool HSBC voice biometrics - BBC

Voice recognition software launched last year by HSBC in order to speed up access for phone banking customers has been successfully bypassed by a BBC reporter and his non-identical twin brother.

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Google and PayPal partner for mobile shopping by fingerprint

Android Pay users that have linked their PayPal accounts will soon be able to pay for goods when mobile shopping using the Chrome browser with just just a touch of their fingerprint.

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Macau to implement facial recognition at ATMs

Macau is to introduce facial recognition for UnionPay cardholders at ATMs in an attempt to curb money laundering in the island territory.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 facial recognition software not ready for payments

Contrary to earlier reports, the new Samsung Galaxy S8 will not let users authenticate payments through facial recognition because the technology is still several years away from being sufficiently secure.

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South Africa gives the thumbs up to biometric cards

Mastercard is preparing to roll out biometric cards combining chip technology with fingerprints after getting the thumbs up from early-stage trials in South Africa.

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Lloyds partners Microsoft to pilot facial recognition access to online banking

Lloyds is teaming up with Microsoft to pilot the use of fingerprint and facial recognition technology for online banking logins on Windows 10 devices.

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ANZ to use voice prints for mobile authentication

ANZ is to pilot the use of voice biometrics on mobile devices to automatically authorise high value payments.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.