FinTech Facial Recognition, and More: This Week’s Top Biometrics Stories

Facial recognition and FinTech are the big themes of this week’s top stories roundup, which also shows some strong reader interest in special programming from FindBiometrics.

The news about next week’s webinar, for example, got a lot of attention. Entitled “Entering the New Era of Biometric FinTech”, the webinar will feature Money20/20 Editor in Chief Sanjib Kalita, Panini Marketing Director Francesco Grasso, and Oz Forensics COO and co-founder Svetlana Efimova in a discussion that will focus on one of the most exciting areas of biometric innovation – financial services. Slated for the morning of December 9th, the webinar is still open for registration, free of charge:

UPDATED: FindBiometrics and Money20/20 to Present Live Biometric FinTech Webinar –Register Now

Sticking with the theme of biometric FinTech, readers showed sustained interest this week in a special feature from Financial Biometrics Month, which wrapped up at the end of November. The piece offered a bird’s-eye-view of the current state of affairs in biometric payment cards, an emerging market area that appears to be rapidly heading toward a large-scale commercialization phase:

Financial Biometrics Month: Biometric Payments Cards’ Race to Commercialization

Back to FindBiometrics’ special programming: readers also showed strong interest in an announcement about the FindBiometrics Year in Review Survey for 2021. Now in its 19th year, the annual survey gives industry insiders the opportunity to share their informed perspectives on some of the most important topics and trends of the industry. Almost two years deep into the transformative pandemic era, the latest edition of the survey should deliver some interesting results:

[NEW SPONSORS ANNOUNCED] Take the FindBiometrics Year in Review 2021 Survey

In other news, Xiaomi subsidiary Aqara got some attention this week with its launch of a new smart home security camera. Called the Aqara Camera Hub G3, the device is compatible with the Apple HomeKit, and features facial recognition capabilities. It also supports gesture recognition, allowing it to recognize as many as five different hand signals:

Aqara Launches Face-scanning Camera for Home Security

And finally, some news from the always-popular area of selfie onboarding. Innovatrics got some attention this week with the recent news that its Slovakian compatriot Softec had implemented its face-based onboarding technology in a new solution aimed specifically at helping telecommunications companies to register customers using eSIM cards:

Innovatrics, Softec Announce NFINITY: a Selfie Onboarding Solution for Telcos

Stay tuned to FindBiometrics for the latest news from the exciting world of biometrics. You can also visit our sibling site Mobile ID World to read the latest about digital identity.

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December 4, 2021 – by Alex Perala

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