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Stan Swearingen is stepping down from his position as the CEO of IDEX Biometrics. His replacement is Vince Graziani, who is joining the company following a stint as the Vice President of Strategy Development and Implementation for Infineon Technologies. Though he will no longer act as CEO, Swearingen will maintain a leadership position with the […]
IDEX Biometrics’ new TrustedBio line of products is already generating interest with smart card manufacturers. The company has announced that it has formed a supply agreement with a “tier 1 smartcard manufacturer,” which will be integrating TrustedBio sensors into an upcoming line of next-generation smart cards. The news comes only one day after the TrustedBio […]
Precise Biometrics’ former CEO is NEXT Biometrics‘ new Head of Sales and Strategy, the latter has announced. Håkan Persson will take the position effective February 1st. Persson left Precise Biometrics in January of 2018 after having helped to establish it as one of the world’s leading providers of fingerprint algorithm software for mobile devices. Now, […]
Zwipe has taken its first step forward in the official application process to get listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. The company has announced that it has formally submitted for screening, in what is the first part of a two-step application process. Zwipe first announced its plans to seek a listing on Nasdaq […]
Zwipe has announced a new Chief Financial Officer. Lars Kristian Solheim will take the position starting March 1st of 2020, when he will replace interim CFO Lars Myren. In a statement announcing the new executive’s appointment, Zwipe highlighted his relevant experience. After serving as a Senior Associate at the audit firm Ernst & Young, Solheim […]
Fingerprint Cards has a new partner in its efforts to target the emerging biometric payment cards market: the company has announced a new partnership with Valid that will see the latter take advantage of FPC’s T-Shape fingerprint sensor module for smart card applications. Valid originally started up in Brazil over half a century ago as […]
It’s been another richly varied week in biometrics news, and FindBiometrics’ latest roundup of our top stories reflects that. But if there’s one theme common to all of these articles, it’s that they each reflect the dynamism and progress of the overall biometrics market as it continues to grow and its technologies continue to evolve. […]
NEXT Biometrics is teaming up with Softlock to carry out a biometric smart card pilot with the government of an unspecified African country. The new cards will combine a large-area fingerprint sensor from NEXT with Softlock’s operating system, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and biometric applets. The government partner is hoping to use the cards for […]
Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has placed its FPC BM-Lite biometric module in a new biometric authentication card from India’s Elementik Technologies. The card has been dubbed the ByteSeal, and FPC is boasting that it will be the “first fingerprint biometrics enabled authentication card” to hit the market in India. The ByteSeal offers wireless BLE and NFC […]
IDEX Biometrics has obtained subscriptions for 120 million new shares in a private placement, the company has announced. The shares were priced at NOK 0.75 each, allowing the company to raise NOK 90.0 million, or about $9.9 million USD, in total. In pursuing the private placement, IDEX’s Board of Directors decided to waive existing shareholders’ […]
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