Latest Biometrics News: Finextra Research

Standard Chartered commits to a biometric future; Qatari bank reads finger veins at ATMs

Standard Chartered Bank is rolling out fingerprint and voice ID technology across Asia, Africa and the Middle east, reaching a potential pool of five million customers.

15 August 2016

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Samsung gets banks onboard for Galaxy Note7 iris scanning

Samsung has added an iris scanner to its latest flagship handset, the Galaxy Note7, which will be used to access banking app and authenticate Samsung Pay transactions,

03 August 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Commercial Bank first in Qatar to introduce NCR’s biometric finger vein ATM authentication tech

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, announced today that The Commercial Bank Q.S.C., Qatar’s first private bank, has become the first bank in the country to introduce finger vein authentication technology powered by an innovative solution from NCR and 01 Systems to speed-up authentication and accelerate ATM transactions making every customer interaction an exceptional experience.

03 August 2016

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Barclays rolls out voice biometrics for phone banking

Barclays is ditching passwords in favour of voice biometrics technology at its call centres, meaning that customers will be authenticated when they start talking.

01 August 2016

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South Africa sets standard for fingerprint banking

South Africa's payments body has released a standard to enable biometrics to be used on payment cards and to herald what it hopes will be an industry-wide roll-out of fingerprint banking.

27 July 2016

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Barclays enlists Samsung for internal hackathon

Barclays has teamed up with Samsung on an internal hackathon in which the bank's staffers work to build mobile services that tap the electronics giant's security technology.

21 July 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Capital One announces finalists for startup accelerator

Capital One today announces the five finalists awarded a place on its accelerator programme, Growth Labs. The programme, launched in partnership with corporate accelerator and investment firm L Marks, aims to enable early stage start-ups to develop new technologies for the financial sector.

19 July 2016

Company update/Biometrics

NetGuardians and BehavioSec forge fraud protection partnership

Swiss-based NetGuardians and Sweden’s BehavioSec are joining forces to leverage their complementary technologies to provide complete fraud protection to financial institutions – and their clients – around the world.

13 July 2016

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NEC trials facial recognition technology at the POS

NEC has embarked on trials of 'cashless payment services' using facial recognition technology to verify consumer identities at small shops located inside its head office building in Tokyo.

08 July 2016

Company update/Biometrics

GB Group to acquire IDscan Biometrics

GBG (AIM: GBG), the identity intelligence specialist, is pleased to announce that it has conditionally agreed to acquire 100% of IDscan Biometrics, a provider of software that automates on-boarding of customers and employees by simplifying the identity verification and data capture process.

29 June 2016

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Norway's BankID tests in-app authentication

Norway's BankID is to begin a pilot programme to test in-app authentication and biometric logins for one-click access to financial services.

24 June 2016

Company update/Biometrics

OCBC turns on Apple's Touch ID for mobile access

OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad has launched OCBC OneTouch, an app that allows customers quicker access to the balances in their bank accounts, cards and investments.

20 June 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Aware ships Fido-approved selfie authentication suite

Aware, Inc., a leading global provider of biometrics software and solutions, today introduced FIDO Suite, a family of software products that enable secure biometric authentication on mobile devices using facial “selfie” images.

16 June 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Fiserv reads palms at Gesa CU

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today the availability of VerifastTM: Palm Authentication, which can be used by banks and credit unions to help mitigate fraud, reduce transaction times and improve service delivery in the branch.

15 June 2016

Company update/Biometrics

BioCatch boosts fraud fighting behavioural biometrics with Microsoft Azure

BioCatch, the global leader in Behavioral Authentication and Malware Detection, announced today the integration of additional Microsoft Azure capabilities into its behavioral biometrics technology, enhancing BioCatch’s ability to detect and fight financial fraud at some of the largest banks and ecommerce sites around the world.

08 June 2016

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Intel builds Tel Aviv fintech innovation lab

Chip giant Intel is teaming up with Tel Aviv-based fintech hub The Floor to create an Israeli financial technology innovation lab.

01 June 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Gulf Bank Kuwait to use face and fingerprints to authenticate mobile users

Daon and Gulf Bank Kuwait announced today their partnership in providing biometric authentication within Gulf Bank Kuwait's new mobile banking application.

31 May 2016

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Selfie payments: Marketing stunt or the real deal?

An increasing number of companies are working on new biometric procedures that quickly and conveniently prove the identity of users making payments. Sascha Breite, head future payments at the payment specialist SIX Payment Services, takes a closer look at 'Selfie Payments' and examines other European initiatives.

25 May 2016

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DBS to roll out voice authentication; OCBC to take biometrics nationwide

Singapore's DBS is to introduce voice biometrics to authenticate customers ringing in to its call centres by the end of the year.

24 May 2016

Company update/Biometrics

Precise Biometrics signs license agreement with Oberthur Technologies for fingerprint recognition

Precise Biometrics, the leader in fingerprint software, has entered an agreement with Oberthur Technologies (OT), a leading global provider of embedded security software, products, services and solutions, for licensing of Precise BioMatch Embedded.

17 May 2016