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ANZ is to pilot the use of voice biometrics on mobile devices to automatically authorise high value payments.
03 April 2017
Citibank has enrolled one million Asia Pacific customers in its voice biometric authentication programme, hitting the milestone within ten months of the introduction of the technology in May 2016.
23 March 2017
Poland's Alior Bank is vowing to cement its place as a leading 'digital disrupter' over the next three years, slashing the size of its branch network and pumping money into technology.
17 March 2017
Samsung's new Galaxy S8 flagship handset will use facial-recognition technology to verify payments, according to Bloomberg.
16 March 2017
A Chicago startup has built a biometrics-based payments system that lets people make purchases by holding their hands over a scanner at the point-of-sale.
10 March 2017
US military bank USAA has licensed development rights to its proprietary security technology to Indian software house Persistent Systems.
01 March 2017
Visa has opened its largest innovation centre to date in London, with the aim of hosting partners and clients from across Europe to collaborate on new ways to pay.
21 February 2017
Emirates NBD has connected 14 different siloed applications to provide branch staff with a 360-degree single view of all customer relationships, combined with biometric digital signatures for paperless transactions and data-driven insights.
06 February 2017
The UK's first implementation of finger vein biometrics for authenticating user payments has taken place at a music venue in London.
31 January 2017
Ant Financial, the payments unit of Chinese Web giant Alibaba, is looking into the use of blockchain technology as it sets its sights on boosting its user numbers to two billion people within the next decade.
20 January 2017
Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank has introduced biometric fingerprint readers for instant issuance of customer debit cards across its branch network.
19 January 2017
In what it claims is a European first, Turkish digital bank Yapı Kredi is to start letting customers log into their mobile accounts by scanning their eyes.
18 January 2017
A Spanish bank-backed fintech incubator and accelerator is inviting startups from Europe and Latin America to apply for four-month programme at its base in Valencia.
16 December 2016
Sumitomo Financial Group is testing facial recognition technology from NEC on purchases made by employees at its banking and cards operations.
14 December 2016
Citibank is rolling out a new mobile app that combines banking, wealth management and money movement features on a single biometrically-secured application.
08 December 2016
The credit card unit of Israel's Bank Leumi is ditching passwords in its mobile app in favour of behavioural biometrics from local startup SecuredTouch.
22 November 2016
Dutch mobile-only bank bunq is securing customer log-in with a biometric form factor that requires customers to present four fingerprints to access their data.
18 November 2016
NatWest has been trialling technology from BioCatch, an Israeli startup that uses behavioural biometrics to authenticate visitors to websites.
17 November 2016
Visa is stepping up its efforts to kill off the password, teaming up with BioConnect to bring multiple biometric authentication options to a single app.
14 November 2016
Self Bank, the Spanish online banking subsidiary of French financial group Boursorama, is using a combination of video-conferencing, biometrics and electronic signatures, to cut registration times for new customers joining the bank.
01 November 2016
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