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EBA sets out plans to exempt some payments from strong customer authentication rules under PSD2

December 9th - Businesses and consumers could be able to sanction low-value payments, payments made to "trusted beneficiaries" and the transfer of funds between different payment accounts they have without having to complete a multi-factor authentication process under new EU payment services rules, according to plans under consideration ...

10 December 2015 /payments

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7 Trends in Biometric Technology Applications

Mitigating the risk of a security breach and protecting customer data is one of many concerns that need to be addressed with innovative technological solutions and methods. Biometric authentication is one such solution to this problem. With rapid innovation in this field, new companies and use cases are coming up in order to provide secure and co...

12 November 2015 /payments

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The Changing Face of Mobile Payments

You cannot fail to notice that biometrics is having an impact everywhere! From access control systems to mobile banking and in particular it is likely to be facial recognition that will have the greatest impact over the next ten years. According to research firm Tractica; facial recognition adoption will grow from 28.5 million mobile devices in 20...

22 October 2015 /payments

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Welcome to the Biometrics Age!

The biometrics age is upon us. A future sci-fi world of disappearing passwords, the internet of things and the unique human characteristics of our body parts to verify who we are is now actually a reality! No more so than in authenticating mobile payments. According to a recent study produced by Goode Intelligence, over $5.6 trillion dollars of ...

08 October 2015 /payments

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