Gemalto fingerprint cards trialed in UK as biometrics for banking deployments continue worldwide
UK bank NatWest has begun a three-month trial of biometric fingerprint credit cards from Mastercard and Gemalto with 150 customers,…
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Thales details plans for integrating Gemalto biometrics and digital identity business
The integration of Gemalto into Thales “Digital Identity and Security” (DIS) will result in average organic sales growth of four…
Digital ID in Africa this week: local mobile banking and biometric verification technology soar ahead
The trend for this week is mobile – mobile banking, payments, SIM registration and even a mobile app to check…
International Identity Day celebrated with rich nations largely on sidelines
As the second International Identity Day takes place, September 16, 2019, a number of countries and organizations are marking the…
Business and development opportunities top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
During a week of mostly good news for the biometrics industry, top stories on Biometric Update broadly follow themes of…
Gemalto part of group awarded contract for 15 million biometric passports by Thailand
Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has awarded a contract for the supply of 15 million biometric e-passports over the…
Airports and encryption research lead this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Excitement about new technologies and deployments, and in a couple of cases a lack thereof, was the theme of the…
Facial recognition needs commercial testing
This is a guest post by Mary Probst, Commercial Markets Manager at Gemalto, a Thales company. Facial recognition technology is…
Two ideas to break down vendor lock-in in foundational biometric ID systems launch at ID4Africa 2019
A lack of interoperability and vendor lock-in are long-standing barriers to successful identification systems in many places around the world,…
Thales reports costs and synergies of integrating Gemalto into DIS
The integration of Gemalto and disposal of its GP HSM businesses has led Thales SA to update its 2019 forecast,…
