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News/Biometrics
Using technology from UK-based biometric startup Sthaler, hundreds of Worldpay employees are trying out a new way to pay - with a scan of their finger.
11 November 2015
Passwords could soon be a thing of the past according to speakers at this week's Money 20/20 event in Las Vegas.
30 October 2015
Financial inclusion featured high on the agenda of the opening sessions at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas. Initiatives from Asia were highlighted as showing best practice in solving identity issues.
26 October 2015
Japanese card scheme JCB is to trial the use of palm vein authentication technology from Fujitsu for cardless purchases at ATMs and merchant terminals.
07 October 2015
MasterCard is rolling out a suite of card security measures for online commerce - from 'pay by selfie' biometrics to SMS-delivered one-time passwords - under the brand Identity Check.
06 October 2015
Royal Bank of Canada is to begin recording the voice prints of customers as they dial in to its call centres, eliminating the need for passwords and additional authentication questions to determine client IDs.
05 October 2015
Researchers at Worldpay are investigating the use of facial recognition technology to help combat card fraud in stores across the UK.
01 October 2015
The US Office of Personnel Management says that hackers who breached its systems over the summer made off with the fingerprint records of 5.6 million individuals, raising questions over the security of biometrically-protected identities.
24 September 2015
South Africa’s Absa Bank is to be the first to trial a new Visa specification for fingerprint validation at chip card-enabled ATMs.
15 September 2015
With contactless cards and mobile payments growing in popularity, a quarter of Brits think that in just five years' time they will no longer need cash, according to a survey for Lloyds Bank.
31 August 2015
MasterCard is embarking on two pilots, one in the US and one in the Netherlands, which use facial recognition technology for payment verification.
18 August 2015
Canada's TD Bank, MasterCard and tech firm Nymi have completed what they claim is the world's first wearable contactless credit card payment to authenticate the user through their heartbeat.
11 August 2015
Taiwan's CTBC Bank has launched a pilot version of an ATM that uses both facial recognition and finger-vein scanning to verify identity.
10 August 2015
ING Bank in the Netherlands is introducing voice-activated payments through its mobile app, enabling customers to authorise transactions by conversing with a virtual assistant on their phone.
29 July 2015
For the first time in more than a decade, the fraud rate for card transactions in France fell slightly last year, new figures show.
13 July 2015
Banks are rapidly adopting biometrics as an authentication method for mobile services and are willing to cooperate to provide customers with a common interface, according to a survey from the Mobey Forum.
02 July 2015
Singapore has committed S$225 million over the next five years to a scheme designed to build a vibrant ecosystem for innovation in fintech.
01 July 2015
Wells Fargo is to pilot a fusion of voice and face biometrics to authenticate mobile users of its Commercial Electronics Office (CEO) portal.
26 June 2015
A Russian engineer has sliced open his own hand and embedded a transit chip under the skin to speed up his daily commute.
19 June 2015
In a North American first, Eastern Bank is replacing security questions with voice biometric authentication for customers calling its service centre.
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