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Japanese tech giant NEC Corporation has announced the appointment of Aalok Kumar as its new President and CEO of NEC Technologies India. Kumar previously served as the Senior Vice President of McKinsey & Company, and in a career spanning more than 26 years he has gained extensive experience working across the APAC and EMEA regions […]
NEC has announced some changes to its board-level leadership. Jun Ohta, the CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMBC) is joining the Board of Directors, where he will replace Takeshi Kunibe. Ohta made his career at SMBC, having first joined the company in 1982, and being named its Director in 2014. He attained his […]
One of the biometrics industry’s biggest players has outlined the steps it is taking to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In a new blog post, NEC Corporation of America CEO Mark Ikeno emphasized that the health of his firm’s customers, partners, employees, and their families is “of paramount importance,” and that the company’s response to […]
The NEC Corporation is making a few changes in the executive suite with a series of new appointments to senior level positions. All of the changes will be effective as of April 1, and were approved by the company’s Board of Directors on January 29. The new appointees include five new Senior Vice Presidents, all […]
NEC is trying to improve the hotel experience through a new partnership with Mitsui Fudosan and Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management. The company will specifically be providing facial recognition technology for Mitsui’s new Sequence brand, which is being introduced as a Smart Hospitality Service that leverages biometrics at multiple hotel checkpoints. To that end, Sequence will […]
NEC has renewed its partnership with the International Criminal Police Organization, signing a new agreement that will see the company provide assistance to INTERPOL in fighting digital crime. The agreement will see NEC work with INTERPOL’s Singapore-based Cybercrime Programme in particular. In a statement announcing the new agreement, INTERPOL explained that its services for INTERPOL […]
NEC and NEC Asia Pacific will have a significant presence at the upcoming SFF X Switch conference in Singapore. The inaugural SFF X Switch will blend the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) with the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) to create a single event with an emphasis on FinTech and digital solutions for the […]
This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ most popular articles is a chatty one. Two of the week’s most popular posts were interviews. One is a wide-ranging discussion with TECH5 executives and founders Machiel Van Der Harst and Rahul Parthe; and the other is an audio interview with NEC’s Benji Hutchinson, conducted on FindBiometrics’ ID Talk podcast: […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition NEC’s facial recognition algorithm has achieved the top score in the the NIST’s 2018 Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT). The company’s platform had the highest accuracy, performing 230 million matches per second to pair faces at a rate that was significantly better than the next closest competitor. The FRVT 2018 […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition NEC Asia Pacific has teamed up with a US-based network security firm to help shore up the defenses of its smart city platform. The company has signed on as a reseller of BlackRidge’s cybersecurity solutions, with a focus on the latter’s TAC Identity Device. TAC-ID is a two-port, in-line network […]
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