In business, and perhaps especially in finance, timing is important. Borrowing at low rates, selling at high valuations, fundraising ahead of a market boom – success across a range of ventures depends so much upon acting when conditions are exactly right. For FinTech players involved in biometrics, that time is now, as our Financial Biometrics…
“At this year’s Money20/20, biometric technology wasn’t just an exciting novelty – it was a force to be reckoned with, and one that is now an elemental component of FinTech.” In the course of its run, FindBiometrics’ webinar series has gathered some renown, thanks in large part to the expertise of its participants – frequently…
“Registration for the webinar is now open and completely free, with participants able to watch the talk live and participate in a question and answer session…” There was a lot of excitement about biometric technology at last week’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas, and while that event is now a wrap, the excitement is far…
“…while they say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, that doesn’t always strictly hold true.” With biometric technology playing an ever-expanding role in securing customers and service providers in the banking and financial services industry, many of the major players in biometrics converged in Las Vegas last week for this year’s US-based Money20/20…
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The FIDO Alliance has had a very big year, in no small part thanks to its launch of the FIDO2 authentication standard and its launch of the Biometric Component Certification Program. These are major developments for the identity industry as a whole, setting the stage for broad implementation of stronger authentication security, and with digital identity…
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As one of the biggest solutions providers in the identity industry, IDEMIA naturally had an extensive presence at this year’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas. And as a result, FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill had the opportunity to catch up with a few of its executives on the show floor, including Biometric Access & Time Solutions…
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As one of the biggest solutions provider operating in the identity industry, IDEMIA had a wide-spanning presence at this year’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas. But a central focus for the company was clearly its Mobile Driver License (MDL) project, which is aimed at establish a government-certified, virtual driver’s license that can exist entirely within…
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As the financial services industry has continued to shift away from password-based security and toward more sophisticated solutions like biometrics, Pinn has emerged over the past year as an important new solutions provider with its open API platform. Accordingly the company was in attendance at this year’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas, where FindBiometrics President…
Money20/20 USA brought the biometrics industry to Las Vegas this week, where digital ID and strong authentication were so integral to the conversations, panels and exhibitions that it truly felt like an important milestone in identity. For years, FindBiometrics has been helping to facilitate the biometrics presence at the Money20/20 conference, so it always serves…
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MicroStrategy established itself as an important player in the mobile security revolution a couple of years ago with the launch of its Usher platform. Essentially designed to turn a user’s mobile device into a security credential through the use of NFC, Bluetooth, and QR code technology, it also supported the use of biometrics for extra-secure…
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IDEMIA is a major player in the global biometric industry, and its work spans across a range of sectors. An ongoing effort in the government sector, for example, entails the development of mobile driver’s license technology that uses facial recognition for user identification. But at Money20/20, the overall focus is, of course, on what’s going…
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It was just about a year ago that Aware became one of the most notable biometrics specialists to offer a multimodal biometric authentication platform for mobile apps. Called Knomi, the SDK package immediately became one of Aware’s key flagship offerings, and it attained even more prestige this summer when it attained FIDO UAF 1.1 certification.…
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It would have been quite a shock not to find Daon at this year’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas. The company has been a leader of the mobile biometrics revolution in financial services, with its pioneering IdentityX platform having been embraced by numerous banks and other financial services providers thanks to its support for multimodal…
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Veratad has been active in identity verification technologies for over a decade now, but it’s currently taking some bold new steps. One of them is the decision to become an exhibitor for the first time at Money20/20, where Veratad CEO John E. Ahrens spoke with FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill on the show floor. In their…
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As the appetite for selfie-based authentication solutions has intensified over the last couple of years, Jumio has established itself as a clear winner among solutions providers, racking up accolades and some really impressive sales numbers thanks to its Netverify solution. A range of organizations, particular in the financial services industry, have enthusiastically embraced the system,…
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BioConnect has had a very busy October. Only about a week ago, the company announced that it had upgraded BioConnect ID, a multimodal authentication platform for the enterprise that supports facial, fingerprint, eye, voice, and behavioral biometrics. Then the Toronto-based company’s executives flew down to Las Vegas for Money20/20, where they’ve announced a big new…
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It’s an exciting time for IDEX Biometrics. The fingerprint sensor specialist has been one of the key players pioneering biometric payment card technology, and largescale deployments appear to be imminent, with a major partner, Mastercard, thought to be negotiating with banks about delivering the technology to customers. Understandably, biometric cards were the main topic of…
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With biometric technology being a bigger topic than ever at this year’s Money20/20 Las Vegas, one of the most fascinating panel discussions was focused on one particular biometrics program, albeit a very ambitious one: CLEAR. It started out as a system aimed at using biometric identification to expedite airport screening for members, but has recently…
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FacePhi has just announced the first big integration for its newly launched inPhinite security platform. ID R&D‘s voice recognition technology is going to be used to help authenticate FacePhi’s millions of end users. Announced just a couple of weeks ago, inPhinite is a new multimodal platform built around Selphi, the selfie-based authentication system that has…