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…
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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…
Suprema’s approach to facial recognition boosts access control security
Facial recognition is increasingly used for both logical and physical access control, but the variety found on most Android smartphones…
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…
Japanese University partners with Glory on facial recognition payment trial with mask detection
Kindai University in Osaka, Japan, has partnered with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Glory to test a new facial recognition-powered payment…
Contactless biometric access control advances on display at ISC West 2021
Biometrics providers are prominent among the access control companies participating in ISC West 2021, going on July 19 to 21…
Ghana to become first country to use contactless biometrics in national vaccination program
The Ghana Health Service in partnership with Gavi and Arm will begin a biometric-based national vaccination program in October 2021…
Zwipe strengthens biometric payment cards position in Africa and Southeast Asia
Mauritius-based international card payment processor and personalization bureau ICPS has partnered with Zwipe to supply biometric payment cards for banks across…
NIST testing suggests best face biometrics algorithms for flight boarding already meet accuracy goal
Some vendors already meet the U.S. governments standards for facial recognition accuracy in relatively challenging biometric airplane-boarding scenarios across all…
