Tanzania leverages increased knowledge and skill to move toward universal biometric identity
Tanzania hosted the inaugural meeting of the ID4Africa movement in 2015. Much has changed since then in the identity ecosystem…
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Card Tech and Fingerprint Cards to work together on biometric cards for payments
Card Tech and Fingerprint Cards have entered into a technical cooperation agreement to bring a dual interface biometric smartcard to…
UK Parliamentary Committee blasts Home Office over biometrics database, strategy delay
The UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has slammed the approach of the Home Office to retaining images for facial…
Moto and Smartisan launch smartphones with FPC fingerprint sensors
Fingerprint Cards announced this week that three new smartphones feature FPC fingerprint sensors. Moto’s Green Pomelo 1S features the FPC1145…
Zwipe bolsters board of directors, former FPC CEO elected chair
Former Fingerprint Cards CEO Jörgen Lantto was elected as the new chairman of Zwipe’s Board of Directors at the company’s…
Finda receives grant from Singapore’s central bank for facial recognition KYC service
Fintech company Finda System has announced it has received a grant from Singapore’s central bank to implement its proprietary facial…
Ping Identity selected to provide SSO and MFA for cyber risk firm Coalfire
Cyber risk management firm Coalfire has implemented the Ping Identity Platform to secure its employee environment with single sign-on (SSO)…
Biometrics stocks this week: Mitek, BIO-key, NXT-ID, ImageWare, FPC
San Diego tech firm Mitek Systems this week announced that it acquired an artificial intelligence and image analysis firm, A2iA….
Dermalog face recognition system matches 1B faces per second
Biometrics manufacturer Dermalog announced today its facial recognition system matches one billion faces per second. Independent testing, auditing and certification…
Mitek extends global reach with A2iA acquisition
Mitek Systems has acquired artificial intelligence and image analysis company A2iA for €42.5 million (US$49.8 million) in cash and shares…
