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Nigeria's banks have embarked on a massive biometrics project, registering the fingerprints and facial features of customers in a bid to fight fraud and money laundering.
17 February 2014
US Bank is piloting voice biometrics technology which allows customers to access their accounts by speaking into their mobile phones.
12 February 2014
SmartMetric has unveiled plans for a biometric, NFC-enabled card for storing and making person-to-person transfers in bitcoins.
15 January 2014
A vein-imaging point-of-sale authorisation device and USB-based iris scanning technology have been turning heads at the CES show in Las Vegas, raising expectations that 2014 may be a break-out year for the biometric technology industry.
09 January 2014
ANZ is experimenting with the use of voice biometrics for securing customer interactions at the call centre and for authorisation of larger-value cash transactions via mobile phones.
28 November 2013
The Indian banking industry's reliance on Windows XP could put more than 34,000 branches at risk when Microsoft ends support for the operating system in April.
13 November 2013
Ingenico is stepping up its presence in Latin America, working with a local firm to bring biometric technology to government benefit payments.
24 October 2013
US fingerprint authentication outfit DigitalPersona has acquired Georgia-based Identity Stream, which offers a turnkey biometric system for core banking users.
11 October 2013
MasterCard has joined the Fido Alliance, which is bidding to replace password-based online authentication with an industry-supported open protocol tied to the actual device used to access services.
Argentina's Banco Supervielle is rolling out fingerprint sensors across its branch network in a bid to stop relatives claiming the benefits of deceased customers.
03 October 2013
Canadian start-up Bionym is promising to make passwords, keys and wallets relics of the past with a bracelet that authenticates its wearer through their heartbeat.
04 September 2013
Brits foresee the demise of cheque books and some coins in the near future as payments goes hi-tech thanks to mobile phones and biometrics.
28 August 2013
Finnish start-up Uniqul is bidding to make wallets - leather and mobile - a thing of the past through a biometrics system that lets customers pay with their faces.
15 July 2013
A UK voice biometrics start-up has launched an iPhone app it says could replace PINs as a way to validate financial transactions.
19 June 2013
A Bangladesh micro-banking initiative is issuing biometric smart cards from Gemalto to the country's unbanked, enabling them to authenticate transactions through their fingerprints.
03 June 2013
Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in the UK is using voice biometric technology to verify the identity of customers as they converse with call centre agents over the telephone.
08 May 2013
Fintech consultancy Capco has teamed up with EyeLock in a bid to sell the latter's iris-based identity authentication technology to the financial services industry.
16 April 2013
Britons have little faith in the ability of banks to look after their personal information, with call centres seen as a particularly weak link in the security chain.
11 March 2013
Citi has begun rolling out what it calls the "first major redesign of the ATM" since the 1970s, linking the physical and digital banking worlds.
25 January 2013
Bridge Community Bank is introducing a biometrics-based system from Tascet for verifying customers in branches.
24 January 2013
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