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News/retail
Russia's VTB is exploring new technologies with a pair of pilots, one that lets customers view notifications in augmented reality and the other letting them pay for metro rides with their faces.
13 September 2021
News/identity
Crown Agents Bank has today launched a biometric authentication pension solution, EMpower Pensions, facilitating secure, end-to-end pensions management, as well as domestic and international pension payroll, from a single digital platform.
07 July 2021
News/payments
With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.
29 June 2021
The European Commission recently announced its plans to deliver a digital identity and wallet framework in a matter of years. Stating that “there is no time to lose”, the Commission is urging member states and the private sector to work in collaboration to deliver its first toolbox by September 2022.
25 June 2021
News/security
Russia's VTB is working with Visa and a local fintech to let restaurant customers make payments by looking at a camera.
News/sustainable
BBVA Mexico is giving its credit and debit cards a makeover, adding biometrics, removing printed data and using recycled plastic.
22 June 2021
Visa has invested in LoginID, the startup behind a series of APIs and SDKs that make it easy for firms to integrate Fido-certified biometric authentication steps into their sites and apps.
02 June 2021
HSBC's caller identification programme Voice ID has cut telephone banking fraud by over 50% during the past year, demonstrating the value of biometric verification in the fight against scammers.
05 May 2021
OCBC Bank is rolling out facial verification technology to its network of ATMs, enabling users to check their balances and ultimately make cash withdrawals via a scan of their faces.
18 March 2021
Shoppers in Moscow will soon be able to 'pay-with-a-glance' at over 200 outlets of Russian supermarket chain X5, thanks to a joint initiative with Sberbank and Visa.
11 March 2021
Singapore's DBS is to use the Government's Singpass digital identity and authentication system to provide clients with biometric face verification for corporate account opening.
24 February 2021
Analysts at UBS believe that biometric payment cards could capture a 15% share of the card market within the next five years.
18 February 2021
As part of Finextra’s Predictions Series for 2021, Hannah Wallace spoke to Erik Zingmark, Nordea’s head of transaction banking to unpack some of the leading trends he expects to see throughout 2021.
05 February 2021
French bank BNP Paribas is offering its Visa Premier cardholders the chance to upgrade to a contactless fingerprint option - for a €24 annual fee.
27 January 2021
Swedish digital banking challenger Rocker is set to pilot the country's first contactless fingerprint biometric debit card.
09 December 2020
News/inclusion
In a virtual fireside discussion during Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya argued that regulators must use their convening power to bring people and innovators together, this would change the dynamic between innovators and the regulators themselves to improve the journey toward digital transformation.
BBVA and technology firm das-Nano are pumping EUR4 million into Veridas, the digital identity verification startup they created in 2017.
12 November 2020
Mastercard is to conduct the first pilot in Asia of a biometric card that uses a fingerprint to authorise transactions at in-store payment terminals.
21 October 2020
Barclays, Citi, HSBC and National Australia Bank have invested $20 million in Israeli behavioral biometrics company BioCatch, topping up a Series C funding round.
01 October 2020
Amazon has unveiled technology that lets shoppers at physical stores pay for their purchases by scanning the palm of their hands.
30 September 2020
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