Digital ID in Africa this week: local mobile banking and biometric verification technology soar ahead
The trend for this week is mobile – mobile banking, payments, SIM registration and even a mobile app to check…
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Korean bank to integrate blockchain, biometrics, IoT payments
Shinhan Card, Korea’s biggest, global top-five credit card company, is looking into blockchain-powered, facial recognition-based payment systems and internet of…
Spanish consulting company Minsait buys fintech firm Afterbanks
Spanish business management consulting company Minsait has purchased Spanish fintech Afterbanks through Indra, Minsait’s parent organization, writes Crowdfund Insider. Afterbanks…
A third of European consumers want biometrics to speed up financial service onboarding
Financial service providers are not taking full enough advantage of biometrics to speed up onboarding processes, 34 percent of European…
Social inclusion and executive appointments lead this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
New image capturing technology for biometrics featured in Biometric Update’s two most frequently-read stories of the week in biometrics and…
Q2 Open integrates Socure digital identity verification to reduce financial fraud
Q2 Holdings has signed a strategic partnership with digital identity verification company Socure to enhance Q2 Open’s CorePro, a Banking-as-a-Service…
Onfido partners up to research identity portability in UK financial ecosystem
Onfido has teamed up with Ethereum blockchain-based digital identity platform uPort and PwC to delve into consumer identity mobility in…
Aadhaar biometric services expand to ‘mobile ATMs’ as credentials could be unified
The digital census being undertaken for India’s National Population Registry (NPR), which link residents biometric and biographic details, could potentially…
Digital ID in Africa this week: biometrics for housing, anti-terrorism
It has been two steps forward and possibly two steps back again for digital ID in Africa this week. While…
Banks in GCC, APAC adopting digital identity, biometrics, AI
Customers around the world are turning to digital platforms for daily operations, including banking transactions. The world is in the…
