FindBiometrics
Global Identity Management
The Chairman of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is asking Apple to come up with a better form of iPhone authentication. The agency is particularly worried about Face ID, insofar as the poor performance of the facial recognition platform is making it more difficult for transit riders to comply with safety guidelines during the […]
“PayByFace is the developer of a biometric payments app that allows people to make purchases with a selfie.” The Dutch payment processing specialist PayByFace has added Sreejit Ankarath to its Advisory Board. Ankarath currently works with Tech Mahindra, where he is in charge of Consulting, Transformation and Global Alliances. PayByFace is the developer of a […]
Zwipe has officially renewed its partnership with the Brazilian smart card manufacturer Thomas Greg & Sons (TGS). The two companies first joined forces in April of 2019 in an effort to develop biometric payment cards for the Latin American market. Now that the contract has been renewed, TGS will move forward with the small scale […]
Jodie Kelly, the CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), went before the House Financial Services Task Force on Financial Technology last week to testify about the way the modern payments industry has helped the United States government deliver stimulus money to people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to various physical distancing and lockdown measure […]
Zwipe has a new Executive Vice President of Strategy and Channels: Bishwajit Choudhary has joined the company’s leadership, bringing with him extensive experience in the digital payments sector. Before his new appointment, Choudhary spent 20 years with Nets Group, a Denmark-based digital payments solutions provider focused on financial institutions. Choudhary worked his way up from […]
FIS has launched a new 3-D Secure (3DS) payment authentication service in anticipation of the stricter Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements that will soon be going into effect in Europe and the UK. The 3DS Flex platform was built with Worldpay’s payment technology, and arrives shortly after FIS acquired Worldpay’s merchant business. 3DS Flex was […]
The new year has just started, and the biometrics industry is back in full swing, judging by this week’s roundup of FindBiometrics top stories from the past week. And it’s a roundup dominated by news from the financial services sector, with a strong focus on payments technology. That’s apropos, given some of the results from […]
European payment and transaction services company Worldline has announced that it will be debuting its new ‘pay by face’ system at the National Retail Federation Expo in New York later this month. The biometric payment system was developed by Swiss cyber-security startup OneVisage, the winner of Worldline’s e-Payments Challenge, which was held in mid-September in […]
November was Biometric Smart Cards Month at our sibling site Mobile ID World, so on the latest episode of the ID Talk Podcast, host Peter Counter spoke with David Orme, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for IDEX Biometrics, about the misconceptions around biometric payment cards. IDEX Biometrics is completely focused on developing useful, […]
Over the past five years, biometrics have fully transformed the financial experience, enabling secure mobile payments, frictionless anti-fraud measures, and trusted remote banking enrollment. Now, as we come to the end of the decade, with biometrics established as the foundation of strong identity, we look ahead to the potential of fingerprint-powered payment cards, biometrics enabled […]
Follow Us