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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.

18 April 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Experian tackles new account fraud with BioCatch behavioral biometrics

BioCatch, the global leader in behavioral biometrics, announced today that it has teamed up with Experian, the leading global information services company, to integrate its behavioral biometric technology into the company's fraud and identity platform, CrossCore™, to help prevent new account fraud for its users.

11 April 2017

Company update/Biometrics

FSS launches Aadhaar Pay system in India

FSS, the Payments and Fintech leader has launched FSS Aadhaar Pay, to support the digital payment initiatives of the Government. Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identification number issued by the Indian government to every individual resident of India.

10 April 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

03 April 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Samsung packs everything but the kitchen sink into Galaxy S8

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. introduces the Galaxy S8 and S8+ to the world, a smartphone that pushes the boundaries of traditional smartphones with its seamless hardware design and a variety of new service offerings.

30 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Malauzi to implement Touch ID for Android users

Malauzai Software, a provider of mobile and Internet banking SmartApps for community financial institutions, today announced that it will be launching the Fingerprint Authentication and Touch ID technology for Android 7.0 users this year.

28 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

PyraMax Bank signs for Fiserv tech

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that PyraMax Bank, a mutual savings bank based in Greenfield, Wisconsin, has selected Fiserv as a technology partner to help the bank modernize its retail banking operations, create a frictionless customer experience and drive the growth of commercial loans and deposits.

28 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Equifax taps facial recognition for document verification

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has launched a bespoke Document Verifier solution to provide faster identity authentication for financial product applications using facial recognition.

28 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Brits warm to biometrics

Research from Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, shows that 56% of people online would prefer to use a biometric security method over traditional options like passwords to log into their financial accounts online.

27 March 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

23 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Union Bank of the Philippines applies Daon biometric authentication to mobile channel

Union Bank of the Philippines has launched the New EON, a digital banking platform, that uses Daon’s IdentityX® Platform and its capabilities for mobile biometric authentication in order to improve security and the customer experience.

22 March 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

17 March 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

16 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

UL gains biometric accreditation from banks in Brazil

UL is proud to announce that its lab in São Paulo has been accredited by the leading banking association, to provide certification services of biometric processes for banks within the country.

13 March 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

10 March 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

01 March 2017

Company update/Biometrics

G&D couples video verification with Danal Mobile ID for KYC

G&D, a global leader in mobile security solutions and Danal Inc., a global leader in mobile identity, authentication & verification services, will jointly present a solution at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the G&D Video Identification service coupled with Danal Mobile ID services, present a very strong remote KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliant offer for online regulated industries.

28 February 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Cisco chair John Chambers invests in Pindrop

Pindrop, the pioneer in voice security and authentication, today announced new board additions including John Chambers, Executive Chairman at Cisco, and Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

23 February 2017

News/Biometrics

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.

21 February 2017

Company update/Biometrics

Nuance and BioCatch team up on biometrics-based fraud detection

Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced from the RSA Conference that it has partnered with BioCatch, the global leader in behavioral biometrics to deliver continuous authentication on the web and mobile as part of the Nuance Security Suite solution.

14 February 2017