Banks deploying biometrics for ever-wider range of remote and in-branch interactions
Banking is being reshaped by several forces, including digitization and online service delivery, and biometrics are vying for a major…
financial inclusion
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Fund non-technical parts of digital public infrastructure for best results: DIAL
Sustainable financing is needed to make sure that digital identity and other pieces of digital pubic infrastructure deliver the promised…
Stakeholders debate how to improve financial inclusion with digital public infrastructure
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, including digital IDs, are gaining more ground as part of the fight against poverty. During…
Philippines adds digital ID to govt super app as World Bank okays $600M support
Philippines’ digital ID, the digital version of the physical ID card dubbed PhilID, is the latest feature to be added…
Creating a financially inclusive future with biometric smart cards
By Catharina Eklof, CCO of IDEX Biometrics There is still a wide financial divide across many demographics in society. People…
13th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit – West Africa
13th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit – West Africa Lagos, Nigeria October 10-12, 2023 After the success of 12 successful editions,…
G20 recommends digital public infrastructure policy to drive financial inclusion
The group of the 19 most advanced economies in the world, the European Union, and mostly recently the African Union,…
Blockchain payment service for underbanked in Africa adds facial recognition
The Advanced Project will soon add a facial recognition payment system to their TIER app in Africa, a blockchain-based multinational…
Accessible face biometrics can boost financial inclusion, iProov argues
Identity verification through video calls is susceptible to attacks, and like CAPTCHAs risks limiting accessibility for certain groups, according to…
Rwanda’s planned digital ID could both increase and decrease exclusion
Some digital ID project researchers say the plan by Rwanda to implement a biometric digital ID card in the next…
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