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With markets still reeling from the effects of COVID-19 and the resulting lockdown efforts, this week nevertheless brings another financial services-heavy roundup of FindBiometrics’ top stories. We begin with a global financial services giant: readers proved to be very interested this week in the news that Mastercard had joined the ID2020 Alliance, a public-private partnership […]
Mastercard has joined the ID2020 Alliance, the financial services giant has announced. The latter group is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting user-managed digital identity solutions. The organization has worked with global companies including Accenture and Microsoft in support of United Nations efforts to establish recognized identity as a basic right, and has actively explored […]
The Linux Foundation is forming a coalition to increase people’s trust in digital interactions. The initiative has been dubbed the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation, and its members will strive to develop an open source standard that will let two parties know that their connection is secure and that they can trust the person on the […]
IDEMIA has officially become the latest member of the Kantara Board of Directors. The Kantara Initiative works to establish industry standards and promote best practices for privacy and digital identity, and IDEMIA will be asked to advance those goals as a member of the board. To that end, IDEMIA will lend its expertise to various […]
IDnow has become an official member of the FIDO Alliance. The developer of the AutoIdent identity verification platform will lend its expertise to further the Alliance’s efforts to establish strong password-free security and authentication standards. “IDnow brings innovative AI-based identity verification technology and a high level of security experience to the Alliance,” said FIDO Executive […]
Vision-Box has officially become an Associate Member of the Secure Identity Alliance. The airport biometrics specialist will lend its expertise to the SIA’s eBorders Workgroup, where it will leverage its experience as a provider of biometric passenger control technology to 80 airports around the globe. “With secure eBorders a major issue for governments across the […]
“This could prove to be an important step forward in online security as more and more payment transactions are performed over online channels.” The biggest industry associations in the fields of payments, the internet, and authentication have announced a new cross-industry interest group aimed at fostering security and interoperability for online payments. The groups involved […]
“The EAB’s membership has materialized at a critical time in Europe’s biometrics sector…” The European Association for Biometrics has joined the Secure Identity Alliance, the organizations have announced. The EAB will act as an ‘Advisory Observer’, a role in which it will “advise and support SIA’s global advocate, policy and technical guidance roles,” according to […]
In an important move for a digital security leader, NEC has joined the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA). It’s a kind of intelligence network for digital security, and a surprisingly new one at that, founded less than two years ago, in January of 2017. It initially started as a nonprofit organization with six members: Check Point Software […]
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