Bionym bolsters biometric bracelet with bitcoin wallet
Bionym’s wearable biometric authentication device – The Nymi — will launch with a Bitcoin wallet as one of its initial applications,…
Financial Services
Biometrics are used in financial services to aid in the flow of money from account opening through payments and transfers. This includes biometric payment cards, point-of-sale and payments systems, transaction processing and other payment technologies, as well as onboarding and regulatory checks, and mobile wallet applications.
Osaka Station to participate in two-year facial recognition system test
According to fresh reports out of Japan, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology is planning to test a…
Biometric payments to see adoption momentum in 2014: report
Research and Markets has announced the addition of a new Javelin Strategy and Research report on biometrics in the banking…
QiSQi partners with WeTradeNet to secure transactions with fingerprint biometrics
European crowdfunding platform WeTradeNet has partnered with QiSQi to secure its transactions with biometric fingerprint identification and verification. According to QiSQi, the…
BBVA looks to behavioral biometrics for employee authentication, contracts AuthenWare and Neoris
AuthenWare has been contracted by BBVA to secure the intranet communications and accounts of its employees, using a combination of behavioral biometrics…
NXT-ID enlists students to help launch biometric wallet
NXT-ID has said that it will team up with students at the John F. Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart…
SmartMetric boasts world’s first biometric bitcoin card
SmartMetric has announced that it has developed and will soon launch the SmartMetric Biometric Bitcoin Card. “SmartMetric’s bitcoin card can…
NXT-ID appoints Lawrence Flanagan and Ken Moy to its advisory board
NXT-ID has announced the appointment of two new advisory board members: Lawrence Flanagan, and Ken Moy. According to the company, Flanagan…
Discover Financial Services joins the FIDO Alliance
Discover Financial Services, and the FIDO Alliance have announced that Discover has joined the alliance and been appointed to the group’s Board…
PayTouch announces new round of funding, plans to relocate
PayTouch has announced a new round of funding, that it hopes will held the company raise US$1.38 million (1M€) by the…
