Idex Biometrics plans $25M private placement as card partner approvals pile up
A planned private placement could raise $25 million for Idex Biometrics as the company looks to cover the cash requirements…
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Support for innovation, regulatory pressure spur biometric payments expansion
A new partnership, solution and regulatory rule indicate the expansion of biometric authentication for payments, with Liquid Avatar, India’s Wibmo…
China’s biometrics sector faces interesting hurdles but it’s not slowing soon
An investigative article out of China indicates that four biometrics unicorns in that country face substantial problems meeting earlier market…
Socure claims highest valuation in biometric IDV space with $450M funding round
The highest valuation of any private identity verification provider may now belong to Socure, after the company raked in $450…
Specifications for NZ COVID pass published
New Zealand has published specs for its COVID-19 domestic-use vaccine pass and its verifier. The news comes as worldwide cases…
Google defends slow biometric unlock time for Pixel 6
Google has justified the somewhat longer unlock time for the Pixel 6 phone using its in-screen fingerprint sensor, saying it…
Canaria Technologies goes global with predictive biometric safety tools
Predictive biometric tools provider Canaria Technologies has partnered with Embley Contracting to roll out the Canaria-V Earpiece as part of…
Veridas selfie biometrics approved for remote public sector services in Spain
Veridas is the first Spanish company to certify technology for the verification of remote identity in the Spanish Public Administration,…
Pakistan gymnastics team fights for ID in case which could bring it to 3 million
A team of young gymnasts who are excluded from Pakistan’s centralized digital identity system are fighting to be recognized by the…
What is China’s new data privacy law hoping to achieve?
The first of November marked the beginning of an apparent regulatory crackdown on data privacy violations in China, as the…
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