Investment pours in for biometric startups developing new services
Biometrics firms Smile Identity, Zenus and OneWave are reporting successful funding rounds for products ranging from ‘ethical facial recognition’ to…
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Prominent biometrics firm reborn as a startup, as established players lock in gains
Headlines from around the biometrics landscape shifted somewhat from investments and fundraising to revenues and new entries this week, as…
ECOWAS, Nigeria look to ease travel with biometric card, faster passport issuance
The Federal Government of Nigeria is to launch a new passport application process that will dramatically speed up the procedure…
Contactless boom carves out biometric payment cards opportunity, FPC sees France leading
Contactless payment card transactions spiked from $1.7 billion in 2020 to $2.5 billion in 2021, with cards making up 79…
Idemia bringing augmented vision, biometric cards and dynamic CVV to India’s financial sector
A huge demand for touchless biometric solutions in India’s Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) industry is driving solution provider…
Optimism reigns in biometrics market as post-pandemic agendas take shape
Dramatic revenue growth is forecast for the next five years in biometrics and in digital identity, and the market has…
Top manufacturers consider Zwipe, Idex Biometrics’ platforms for payment cards
A global ‘Tier 1’ smartcard manufacturer is evaluating Zwipe Pay ONE for in-house biometric payment card manufacturing after receiving a shipment…
UN finds storing biometric data on Mauritius ID cards violates privacy
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that the legislation which Mauritius passed in 2013 for its biometric smart…
Thales pitches issuers on biometric payment cards
Thales is up to 20 biometric payment card projects, and is touting the readiness of the technology, which has already reached…
Biometric claims processing by Malawi health insurance firm yields progress one year on
MacDonald Wella, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WEMAS, a Malawian health insurance firm which uses biometrics to process insurance…
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