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Amazon Looks to Ramp Up Biometric Payments With Promotional Offer

Samsung Pay Scores Eight More Payment Card Issuers

Samsung Pay now has the support of eight more payment card issuers, Samsung has announced. Its newest MasterCard issuers include Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit…

November 23, 2015

Neurotechnology Hones Fingerprint Accuracy in NIST ELFT Testing

XiaoGu Pro Features FPC1035 Sensor

“The smartphone features an FPC1035 sensor, the same kind of fingerprint sensor used in the recently launched LG V10 handset.” A Fingerprint Cards (FPC) sensor…

November 23, 2015

Biometrics News - INTERPOL Calls for Biometric Data Sharing at Project Kalkan Summit

Subsidized Food Shops in Delhi to Have Biometric Authentication by Next May

India’s government is planning to bring biometric authentication to its food subsidy system, and Delhi, the nation’s capital, should have it in place next…

November 23, 2015

Valencell Receives Approval for 12 New Patents

Biometric wearables specialist Valencell has received approval for 12 new patents, the company has announced. Ten are in the US, while the other two were…

November 23, 2015

SK Announces Voice and Face Multi-Factor

South Korea-based systems integrator SK has announced a new multimodal biometric authentication system aimed at the security and financial sectors. Dubbed Who…

November 23, 2015

iiDENTIFii Encourages South African Businesses to Invest in Biometric Security Tech

Deutsche Bank Trials Multimodal Mobile System

Deutsche Bank is trialing a multimodal biometrics system for mobile authentication. Developed by Callsign, the system incorporates facial recognition,…

November 23, 2015

MasterCard Lays Out a Consumer-Friendly Set of Principles for Digital Identity

Chemical Analysis of Latent Fingerprints Can Detect Gender

A relatively simple chemical test can determine whether a latent fingerprint is from a man or a woman, according to some new research. In a paper published in…

November 23, 2015

AZ-N1 SoC Solution Supports Small Device Biometrics

News Roundup: A Week Of Major Innovation

Last week at FindBiometrics, Financial Biometrics Month continued in the featured articles section while major news about the FIDO Alliance, Apple Pay and…

November 23, 2015

Samsung Bringing Biometrics To Budget Phones

According to new reports citing sources close to Samsung, the company is working on bringing more advanced features to budget-range smartphones. Among those…

November 20, 2015

iProov Provides Liveness Detection for Caribbean Identity Start-up

UK Gov’t Convenes Researchers for Facial Recognition Project

The British government is convening a team of researchers from across the country to work on a project seeking to advance facial recognition technology. It’s a…

November 20, 2015

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