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Clear expands reusable digital identity to financial services with one-click KYC launch

Clear is bringing its reusable digital identity service to the financial services market with the new one-click know your customer…

 

Nigeria clears 200k passport backlog, cuts issuance time to two weeks

Nigeria’s beleaguered passport issuance system is witnessing a revolution lately with a huge backlog of 204,332 passports cleared in three…

 

SIA and IDSA collaborate to shape identity threat education

Secure Identity Alliance (SIA), the global non-profit association representing public and private actors and organizations across the secure identity ecosystem,…

 

Biometrics Institute’s learning tool shortlisted for award

The Biometrics Institute’s Biometrics Essentials learning tool has been shortlisted in this year’s Learning Technologies awards. The awards celebrate outstanding…

 

Okta buys Uno to absorb password management in consumer digital ID pivot

Okta, an  enterprise identity and access management (IAM) firm headquartered in San Francisco, has purchased Uno, a design-focused consumer password…

 

NZ retailers turn to facial recognition to stem surge in crime

Retail crime has surged in New Zealand, with the latest Survey report published by industry group Retail NZ citing the…

 

Zwipe, Fingerprint Cards each ink deals for biometric access control cards

Biometrics developers Zwipe and Fingerprint Cards have partnered with card-makers in Texas, Italy and England to produce access control cards….

 

India pushes liveness detection to biometric devices to cut payments fraud

The growing wave of fraud perpetrated against the Aadhaar-enabled Payments System (AePS), the widely-used last mile payments platform in India,…

 

ECOWAS talks travel, trade benefits of regional biometric ID card in Cote d’Ivoire

Cote d’Ivoire is the latest member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to host a workshop meant…

 

Pixel 8 boasts improved biometrics with Face Unlock

Upgraded face authentication on Google’s new phone will allow users to verify sign-in to apps and make payments. According to…

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