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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.
24 May 2017
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.
19 May 2017
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.
18 May 2017
Macau is to introduce facial recognition for UnionPay cardholders at ATMs in an attempt to curb money laundering in the island territory.
08 May 2017
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.
26 April 2017
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.
20 April 2017
Lloyds is teaming up with Microsoft to pilot the use of fingerprint and facial recognition technology for online banking logins on Windows 10 devices.
18 April 2017
ANZ is to pilot the use of voice biometrics on mobile devices to automatically authorise high value payments.
03 April 2017
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
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
Samsung's new Galaxy S8 flagship handset will use facial-recognition technology to verify payments, according to Bloomberg.
16 March 2017
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
US military bank USAA has licensed development rights to its proprietary security technology to Indian software house Persistent Systems.
01 March 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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