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SwissBorg is turning to Onfido to secure its blockchain-based wealth management platform. The latter’s selfie-based authentication solution will allow SwissBorg to verify the identities of its customers during the onboarding process. To do so, new SwissBorg users will first be asked to take a photo of their official government ID. That photo will then be […]
Ipsidy, a provider of selfie-based biometric authentication technologies, has issued its corporate update for the second quarter, illustrating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenues for the period ended June 30, 2020, came in at $0.3 million, compared to revenues of $0.6 million in the same period last year. Its net result before taxes was […]
Acuant has teamed up with iProov to enhance is facial recognition capabilities. To that end, the company will be integrating iProov’s Flashmark technology into its own Trusted Identity Platform to enable remote onboarding and authentication. Flashmark is noteworthy for its Genuine Presence Assurance liveness detection capabilities. The solution is device agnostic, and projects a cryptographic […]
“We launched Liveness.com last year to explain how proving a real human is present during biometric data collection was the key to stamping out identity theft while retaining privacy and preventing biometric data reuse, and now we believe that to achieve total transparency in the marketplace, every Liveness vendor needs to stand-up their own public Level 1-5 […]
If FindBiometrics’ weekly roundup of top stories is a kind of mirror for the biometrics industry, this week it’s reflecting a lot of faces. All of this week’s most popular stories revolve around face biometrics. Selfie authentication remains an ascendant trend, with one of this week’s most-read articles detailing a new authentication system that relies […]
“We’re very pleased to be supporting Curve as it continues its mission to free people’s finances and move banking to the cloud.” – Husayn Kassai, CEO, Onfido Curve has become the latest FinTech firm to sign up for Onfido‘s biometric onboarding solution. Based in the UK, Curve offers a banking platform designed to integrate multiple […]
Singapore’s DBS Bank has announced that it is the first private sector entity to allow biometric facial authentication for its services using the government’s national biometric database and the SingPass Face Verification service. The database is made up of the facial images and identities of roughly four million Singaporeans aged 15 and over. The biometric […]
Two of the biggest names in biometrics have issued a joint White Paper detailing the benefits of AI-driven face authentication. The paper, entitled “Enhancing Trust with AI-Driven Biometrics“, is jointly presented by FaceTec and Jumio, ID verification and authentication specialists leading the current digital onboarding trend with remote enrollment, face authentication and biometric liveness technology. […]
Jumio added a record number of new customers to its roster in the second quarter of 2020. The digital identity specialist attributed much of that growth to the sudden rise of the remote working ecosystem, which is in turn the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In that regard, Jumio noted that social distancing protocols spurred […]
A new report suggests that Apple is planning to bring Face ID to its Mac computers. At the moment, the facial recognition solution is only available on certain iOS devices, though the tech giant has hinted at the possibility of Face ID on Mac computers in prior patent applications. The latest rumor comes courtesy of […]
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