EMVCo sets MFA security guidelines with encouragement and cautions for biometrics use
Biometrics can help make multi-factor authentication used in payments resistant to attacks, but can also do the opposite if the…
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EMVCo, Payment Association EU weigh in on biometric payment card challenges
The year 2023 may be the year that biometric payment cards roll out at scale, according to some industry players….
Web payment security group agrees to 2 more years
An industry agreement first signed in 2019 to encourage collaboration on developing better e-commerce check-outs has been renewed. The signers…
Biometric cards developers prepare to support mass adoption for payments, access control
Biometric payment cards featured prominently among the presentations at the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association’s (APSCA’s) recent Next-Generation Cards 2022…
Thales continues biometric card R&D in France, approved by Mastercard for quantum security
Thales is developing biometric bank cards and working on eSIM technnologies at a French research facility in La Ciotat launched…
New spec pushed to speed evolution of biometric cards and mobile payments
EMVCo, which writes and manages voluntary Europay-Mastercard–Visa specifications for secure and interoperable card-based payments systems worldwide, has published a draft…
Fingerprint Cards receives volume biometric sensor order for PCs, wins approval for mobile payments
An unnamed Asian PC-maker has ordered “a couple of hundred thousand” units of Fingerprint Cards new biometric PC solution. The…
Idemia biometric card secure chip certified for ICCN security, Zwipe signs worldwide distribution deal
A new milestone on the path towards next-generation biometric cards has been achieved by Idemia and Zwipe, the companies say, with…
Use of biometrics for 3-D Secure payments explained in EMVCo and FIDO Alliance paper
Global payments technology body EMVCo has published a white paper to help guide merchants and issuers adopting FIDO authentication via…
Idex Biometrics and Thales achieves certifications for smart cards, mobile ID security software
Idex Biometrics has successfully completed the EMVCo Security Evaluation for its development site in Farnborough, U.K., making a landmark achievement…
