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As they seek to steer a course through the new fintech environment, financial services firms must beware the risks to their business models of both being too passive and too gung-ho in their embrace of new technologies, says a European Banking Authority report.
03 July 2018
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added fingerprint and facial recognition technology alongside an embedded token to enable quick access to payment approvals for corporate users of its CashPro mobile application.
02 July 2018
The Czech Republic's largest bank, Česká spořitelna, has rolled out voice biometrics technology from Nuance Communications, enabling customers to identify themselves to call centre staff simply by speaking.
18 June 2018
South Africa's FNB has revamped its mobile services, enabling consumers and businesses to open accounts within minutes by taking selfies.
18 May 2018
FNB is to roll out 50 new banking kiosks that validate a customer's identity with the touch of a thumb at locations across South Africa.
09 May 2018
Mastercard is looking to boost the popularity of its biometric cards by letting users register their fingerprints from the comfort of their own homes.
02 May 2018
Nordic payments processor Nets has begun tests of finger-vein payments with students and visitors at the Copenhagen Business Scool.
24 April 2018
JPMorgan Chase is to begin using individuals’ unique voiceprints to identify customers who are calling to inquire about their credit card accounts.
20 April 2018
Japanese card issuer JCB is conducting trails of contactless cards with an embedded fingerprint sensor to replace PIN button pushing for higher-value purchases at the check out.
18 April 2018
BBVA is testing a facial recognition system at its inhouse cafetaria that is capable of recognising users and their orders and charging their cards as part of a strategy to render checkouts and payments 'invisible'.
19 March 2018
InnoCapital the corporate venture vehicle of Banco Sabadell's InnoCell digital hub has led a EUR1 million investment round in voice authentication startup Biometric Vox.
23 February 2018
OCBC Bank is introducing facial recognition at its branches to identity high-rolling customers as they approach the service desks.
14 February 2018
Russian digital bank Tinkoff has opened a development hub at a major Moscow innovation centre where a team of staffers will work on areas such as blockchain and biometrics.
09 February 2018
Nordea is implementing biometric authentication from Veridium for employees handling confidential customer data.
07 February 2018
Western Union has opened a technology centre in Pune, India, employing more than 1000 staffers working on areas such as robotics, machine learning and biometrics.
30 January 2018
From next April, online shoppers across Europe will be able to use biometrics, such as fingerprints or facial recognition, to identify themselves at the checkout when they pay with Mastercard.
23 January 2018
Japanese card brand JCB is running trials of a combined biometric palm print and vein identification system which claims a false acceptance rate of only one in one billion transactions.
05 January 2018
Bank of Cyprus is to issue a biometric EMV card which uses fingerprint recognition instead of a PIN code to authenticate the cardholder.
04 January 2018
A digital ID startup backed by BBVA has launched a mobile app that uses biometrics and private key technology to help users securely store, share and verify their identities and documents.
06 December 2017
Russia's Sberbank has acquired a 25% stake in facial recognition startup VisionLabs as part of a wider effort to build an all-encompassing biometric identification platform.
27 November 2017
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