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Mastercard Biometrics News
Biometrics companies seek position as contactless payments market growth accelerates
Zwipe CEO André Løvestam discussed how recent developments, including the global push to raise transaction limits, have affected the march…
| Feb 17, 2020 | Mastercard working with transport partners on payments via gait or face biometricsMastercard is working with partners in transport to develop biometric authentication such as gait or face recognition, possibly even heartbeat… |
| Feb 7, 2020 | North Macedonian government partners with Mastercard for distributed digital ID serviceMastercard is working with the government of the Republic of North Macedonia on a suite of digital identity and related… |
| Jan 31, 2020 | Trust Stamp secures Mastercard investment to provide authentication with low connectivityTrust Stamp has secured a strategic investment from Mastercard to expand on its AI-powered authentication services for developing communities, after… |
| Jan 24, 2020 | Mastercard sets up Intelligence and Cyber Centre in VancouverMastercard has inaugurated a global Intelligence and Cyber Centre in Vancouver, Canada, the sixth in its portfolio focused on cyber… |
| Jan 17, 2020 | Mastercard certifies first contactless biometric payment card from Thales and Fingerprint CardsThe biometric payment card offered by Thales Group with a Fingerprint Cards sensor has been announced as the first contactless… |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Mastercard online authentication technology launches in India as banks tap biometricsThe Federal Bank of India has formed a partnership with Mastercard to use its global authentication program with the latest… |
| Dec 12, 2019 | Australia, Canada look to digital identity solutions to get rid of physical ID cardsMastercard has rolled out a new digital identity pilot in Australia this week that can identify a person in both… |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Mastercard finds most Latin American and Caribbean consumers want biometric online paymentsMillennials in Latin America and the Caribbean are driving regional e-commerce growth rates above 20 percent, and between 63 and… |
| Oct 28, 2019 | Mastercard taps biometrics and behavioral analytics in new product suite for healthcare partnersThe digital healthcare services market has a new major player, with Mastercard announcing the launch of an integrated product suite… |
| Oct 21, 2019 | New approaches and technologies to fulfill the online security promise of biometricsBiometrics are often associated with strong security both in the public consciousness and within the industry. Part of the reason… |
| Oct 7, 2019 | Gemalto fingerprint cards trialed in UK as biometrics for banking deployments continue worldwideUK bank NatWest has begun a three-month trial of biometric fingerprint credit cards from Mastercard and Gemalto with 150 customers,… |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Mastercard experimenting with palm print biometrics on smartphones in digital shiftThe decision to drop its name from its logo is part of a desire to be seen as more of… |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Syntizen gets backing from Mastercard and ACPL for Aadhaar-based digital ID productDigital identity provider Syntizen Technologies has received pre-Series A funding from Mastercard and ACPL to strengthen its Aadhaar-based product offering… |
| Aug 9, 2019 | New biometric technologies and old controversies top this week’s biometrics and digital ID newsThe most widely read articles on Biometric Update this week cover new innovations and solutions for liveness, facial recognition, vehicles… |
| Aug 7, 2019 | Mastercard involved in several new biometrics-backed payment systemsMastercard has launched a mobile authentication solution featuring behavioral biometrics in India to increase security and reduce friction in e-commerce… |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Payments, travel, and facial recognition top this week’s biometrics and digital ID newsBiometrics, and in particular facial recognition, for payments and travel dominated the most-read stories on Biometric Update for the past… |
| Jul 30, 2019 | iBeta awarded Mastercard accreditation for biometrics testing facilityiBeta Quality Assurance has received Mastercard accreditation for its biometrics test lab. iBeta reports it added Mastercard’s Formal Approval Services… |
| Jul 26, 2019 | Biometric card certification, auto applications and AI issues top this week’s biometrics and digital ID newsSignificant progress was announced this week in several different areas of biometrics applications, and international issues related to identity and… |
| Jul 23, 2019 | Biometric payment cards with Precise, NXP, FPC tech achieves Mastercard security certificateA biometric smart card module featuring a secure processing module from NXP Semiconductors and Precise BioMatch Card algorithm from Precise… |
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Knowledge and recognition: new wave biometrics
This is a guest post by Ajay Bhalla, President, Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard. How do we know someone is…
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