Latest Biometrics News: Finextra Research

Brits predict death of coins and cheque books

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

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Uniqul introduces face payments

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

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Voicekey unveils biometric iPhone app

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

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Bangladesh micro-banking project signs for Gemalto biometric tech

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

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Barclays tunes into customer voiceprints

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

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Capco partners EyeLock to hawk iris scanning tech to banks

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

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Brits wary of bank call centre security

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

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Citi installs next-gen ATMs in Asia; issues NFC stickers in Czech Republic

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

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Bridge Community Bank introduces in-branch biometric security

Bridge Community Bank is introducing a biometrics-based system from Tascet for verifying customers in branches.

24 January 2013

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Visa and banks tap India's biometric ID system for new account

Visa and a group of Indian banks are tapping the country's biometrics-based national identity system to bring financial services and electronic payments to tens of millions of people.

13 December 2012

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Discover trials Natural Security biometric payments

Discover Financial Services is working with French outfit Natural Security to pilot a system which combines biometrics and contactless cards to enable customers to pay with their fingertips.

05 November 2012

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French shoppers trial biometric payments

A group of French banks, IT firms and retailers are trialling a point-of-sale system that combines biometrics and contactless cards to enable customers to pay with their fingertips.

24 October 2012

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Poland's BPH to install finger vein biometric scanners across branch network

Bank BPH in Poland is to install 'Finger Vein' biometric scanners across its branch network to provide customers with secure money transaction services without the need for PIN entry.

19 September 2012

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Bradesco opens the bank of the future

Banco Bradesco has opened a futuristic hi-tech branch in São Paulo Brazil featuring robot guides, personalised financial advisory services from digital avatars and on-screen consultants, biometric interfaces, and wall- and table-mounted gesture-controlled touchscreens.

30 August 2012

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South Africa enlists MasterCard to distribute welfare through biometric debit cards

The South African government has called in MasterCard to help it distribute welfare benefits to millions of people through biometric debit cards.

31 July 2012

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BT and Hitachi team on secure identity management system for FS firms

BT has outlined plans for a cloud-based secure identity management system for financial services firms using Hitachi Europe's biometric technology.

25 April 2012

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Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank ditches cards for biometrics at ATMs

In what it claims is a first, Japan's Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is rolling out ATMs that use palm-scanning biometric technology from Fujitsu to identify customers instead of cards.

12 April 2012

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Bank Negara Indonesia taps voice biometrics for password resets

Tired of manually resetting forgotten staff passwords, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) has automated the process using biometric voice authentication technology.

28 March 2012

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Isbank deploys Hitachi biometric tech at ATMs and branches

Turkey's Isbank has installed around 3400 Hitachi biometric finger vein scanners in ATMs and branches across the country, enabling customers to withdraw cash without a card.

07 February 2012

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Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam chooses Wincor Nixdorf biometric ATM tech

Brunei-based Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam (BIBD) is rolling out biometric-enabled ATMs from German vendor Wincor Nixdorf.

02 November 2011