Biometric and artificial intelligence technologies will have a big year in the financial services sector, and will help smaller banks to offer cutting-edge solutions to their customers, predicts Unisys. The company says that this is the year that “biometric authentication will go mainstream”, according to a statement announcing its predictions. And that mainstreaming process will…
Europeans are really warming up to biometric authentication, suggest findings from a new Unisys survey. The company has found that 68 percent of Europeans say they would trust an organization more if it used the technology. The survey polled 3,500 individuals across the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, in August of…
Unisys has announced a new digital banking platform meant to facilitate a broad range of services via mobile device or desktop, and featuring biometric security. Called Elevate, the platform is targeted at financial institutions seeking to offer cutting-edge digital and mobile banking technology to their customers, enabling everything from paying bills to applying for mortgages. The solution…
“Earlier this year, the Unisys provided technology for a biometric screening trial conducted by the CBP at a major US-Mexico land crossing, and it has also helped with biometric screening trials conducted by the CBP at two major airports. “ The US Customs and Border Protection agency has contracted Unisys to help authorities identify the people…
Biometrics industry professionals are seeing major opportunities for wearables in law enforcement, according to new survey data from Unisys. The company polled 54 individuals at this year’s Biometrics Institute Asia Pacific Conference, and found considerable enthusiasm for applications of biometric wearable technology in law enforcement and security, with 63 percent agreeing that this “is the…
Nationwide Building Society has won the Retail Banking Security Innovation of the Year award for a mobile solution developed with Unisys and BehavioSec. The award was bestowed at this year’s Retail Banking Conference & Awards. The recognition is for an app developed by the companies this year which uses behavioral biometrics to authenticate users. That…
Unisys has won a contract to provide the Netherlands’ Custodial Institutions Service (Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen, or DJI) with a new custody management system. According to the terms of the 10-year contract, the system will be rolled out starting next year, and will ultimately be in place at prisons across the country. The system will revolved…
Behavioral biometrics company BehavioSec has announced a partnership between itself, Nationwide, and Unisys. The central focus of the team up, which has been taking place over the past few months, has been the development of a prototype app aimed at making behavioral biometrics a standard feature in digital services. While the company and its partners…
Unisys technology is helping the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to conduct is biometric screening trial at the Otay Mesa border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, the company has announced. The project, launched late last year, is meant to test the viability of using biometric technology to effectively screen and track non-US…
Global IT solutions provider Unisys has launched a new Justice, Law Enforcement and Border Security Initiative, and has appointed a 20-year FBI veteran to lead it, the company has announced. The initiative is aimed at helping governments around the world in several areas, including border traffic processing, cloud-based IT infrastructure setup, public safety consulting, and…
Unisys is once again helping the US Customs and Border Protection agency to implement biometric passenger screening at a major US airport. It’s an expansion of the pilot project first implemented at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia, which concluded in the middle of last year. Now, initiating what could be a much larger-scale expansion…
Global IT company Unisys Corporation has launched a number of new security solutions and products at the annual Americas Analyst and Advisor Summit in Dallas. The offerings are aimed at protecting both information and infrastructure against digital threats. The company’s main new offerings are upgrades to its Unisys Stealth line of products, all of which…