One year into his tenure as CEO of Precise Biometrics, Stefan K. Persson is pleased with the company’s progress, suggest comments in an interview on the company’s blog. Having taken the helm on August 1st of last year, Persson – a former executive with Danish home electronics makers Bang & Olufsen – came to the…
ZTE has become the latest smartphone maker to implement both in-display fingerprint scanning and facial recognition into a new flagship device. The biometric capabilities are among the specs of the new Axon 10 Pro smartphone, which is billed as being the first smartphone to incorporate an AMOLED touchscreen into a curved display. Other notable features…
“It represents an important step forward for Precise, which has established itself as a leading provider of biometric algorithm software for fingerprint sensors, but is now aiming to expand its reach into new market areas.” Precise Biometrics has announced the first major application of its forthcoming YOUNiQ biometric solution, pivoting into face-based access control. Still…
Daon has released an updated version of its flagship biometric onboarding platform. IdentityX Digital Onboarding 2.0 delivers better anti-spoofing technology, and also enables browser-based onboarding to allow users to enroll without the need for a mobile app. The platform is designed to deliver a seamless experience that guards against fraud while simultaneously increasing user retention…
For many years now, BioConnect has been a high-profile leader in offering compelling security solutions to the enterprise market, with a strong focus on post-password security technologies like biometrics. And in some ways, the larger enterprise security market is now starting to catch up with the company, with a growing number of organizations coming to…
Lloyds Banking Group is upgrading its digital security with multi-factor authentication technology from Callsign. Callsign’s behavioral biometrics platform will allow Lloyds’ 15 million customers to leverage their biometric information to log into their accounts and authorize transactions. The integration is expected to offer a more seamless and more secure end user experience for those…
NICE Actimize is putting together an X-Sight Marketplace that will consolidate a range of products and services that can help companies reduce financial crime. New solutions will be listed once they have been vetted by NICE Actimize, making it easier for enterprise-level customers to shop for and add new security features to ensure regulatory compliance.…
Precise Biometrics is highlighting some of the benefits of selfie authentication and the new Precise YOUNiQ onboarding solution. In an interview on the company’s blog, Precise YOUNiQ Senior Business Developer Ermin Kosovac explains that biometric authentication is more convenient and more secure than current alternatives like passwords. Those advantages will be familiar to anyone in…
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FindBiometrics is in Johannesburg, reporting live from ID4Africa 2019, where the biometrics industry is convening to help realize the future of next-generation identity technology in Africa. All week we will be bringing you live audio interviews recorded on the exhibition floor with biometrics industry experts helping transform identity services across the continent. Peter O’Neill, President…
“We are very pleased Debbie and Mark have joined our company. Their years of experience in financial services, physical access, enterprise technology, global scale and culture fit make them ideal leaders to join our mission,” – Rob Douglas, Chairman & CEO, BioConnect BioConnect is looking to further build on excitement over its multimodal biometric authentication…
An expert conversation on the death of the password, biometric liveness detection, and the future of identity in the workplace. It’s On-Device Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics, a five-week deep dive on the authentication paradigm that’s killing passwords. That’s why, in the latest episode of The FindBiometrics & Mobile ID World Podcast, host Peter Counter sits…
“Its new Precise YOUNiQ solution, which combines fingerprint, facial, and behavioral recognition with geodata, is also an area of intensifying focus, with Precise Biometrics aiming for commercialization in 2020.” Full-screen fingerprint scanning could be the next big thing in mobile biometrics, according to comments from Precise Biometrics‘ CEO in the company’s latest quarterly update. “The…
ImageWare has issued its Q1 results for 2019, delivering a status quo net result alongside a spike in revenues. With respect to the latter, ImageWare brought in $931,000 in the quarter, compared to $716,000 in Q1 of 2018 – an increase of 30 percent. Its net loss, meanwhile, was $3.6 million, the same as in…
As the biometrics revolution has continued to accelerate over the last several years, the enterprise sector has proven to be one of the ripest areas of adoption. Businesses and other organizations have always had particular security needs, and in the past these have been met with solutions like office keys and security guards. But as…
Precise Biometrics has set a date and revealed the agenda for its Annual General Meeting, and it looks like the company is eager to get some incentives in place for its top leadership. Among the proposals for Precise Biometrics’ shareholders to vote on is a reverse share split, in which ten existing shares would be…
Cancer patients in Japan should have an easier time getting reimbursed for treatments thanks to a new agreement between Nok Nok Labs, Fujitsu, and Aflac Japan. Specifically, Aflac, which was the first insurance provider in the country to offer cancer insurance, has adopted the Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite, which is being deployed by Fuijitsu…
Innovatrics has announced the launch of ABIS 7, the latest version of its Automated Biometric Identification System. The multimodal biometric platform includes fingerprint, face, and iris recognition capabilities, and can be customized to meet the specific needs of a variety public and private organizations. According to Innovatrics, ABIS 7 is particularly well-suited to the forensic…
“Pending initiatives and our work in the higher price point health care market signal that we are firmly on a path toward profitability.” – Jim Miller, CEO ImageWare Systems ImageWare has issued its year-end corporate update, with its top executive anticipating a bright future for the biometric authentication company. In detailing its Q4 results, the…
GenKey has officially launched ABIS 4.0, updating the identification platform with new biometric matching algorithms that will significantly improve the speed and accuracy of the service. The latest edition of the Automated Biometric Identification System is ten times more accurate than previous versions, while the faster identification times will lower the hardware demands for those…