Seeking to boost its IT services in Brazil, NEC Latin America has acquired Arcon Informatics, a domestic IT security company. Arcon was started in 1995 and has since grown its digital security consulting and management businesses. NEC says the … [Read more...] about NEC Seeks to Boost Brazil Presence with IT Security Firm Acquisition

The Japanese startup developing the biometric payment technology to be used during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo is hoping to reach a much broader market. Called Liquid Inc., the company is working on a system that would link a user's payment account … [Read more...] about Gov’t, FinTech Backing Could Help Fingerprint Payments Take Off In Japan

India's biometrics market will be worth more than three billion dollars by the year 2021, according to a new report from TechSci Research. Entitled "India Biometrics Market By Type, By End Use Sector, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, … [Read more...] about India’s Biometrics Market to Grow at 31 Percent CAGR Between 2016-2021: Report

With a major new integration into a time and attendance tracking system, Safran Identity & Security is highlighting the benefits of its MorphoTablet in the workplace. The integration comes by way of Donseed, a workplace management solutions … [Read more...] about Custom Workforce Management MorphoTablet Solution Cuts HR Costs

Bengalaru, the capital of India's Karnataka state, now has its first biometric ATM. The system eschews card-and-PIN customer authentication for fingerprint recognition. It's an expansion of a program first launched by DCB Bank this April, when the … [Read more...] about Indian Bank Expands Biometric ATM Project

Last week at FindBiometrics we examined the multimodal future of biometric airport security in our featured articles section as the days counted down to our next webinar. Border control and national ID mad the industry news too, and FinTech, voice … [Read more...] about News Roundup: The Future of Multimodal Border Control

June is Border Control & National ID Month 2016 at FindBiometrics. All month we will be examining the ins-and-outs of biometric citizen registry and identification—its applications, real life deployments, and how it is shaping the global … [Read more...] about Border Control & National ID Month: The Primer

Delta Air Lines is promoting new efforts to improve passenger processing. Among them are staffing increases, opening new checkpoint lanes, and enabling expedited biometric passenger screening. The measures come as the US Transportation Security … [Read more...] about Delta Promotes Biometric Screening to Help Manage Airport Wait Times

Singapore's DBS and OCBC banks have announced that voice authentication is in the pipeline for their call centers. As Singapore Business Review reports, OCBC has already launched a voice biometrics system for some of its customers, suggesting an … [Read more...] about DBS, OCBC Announce Voice Authentication Plans

Two major Hong Kong banks are preparing to launch biometric identification systems for their call centers. The first is Citi, which has announced that a voice recognition system will launch next week. In announcing the move, the bank framed it as … [Read more...] about Hong Kong Banks Plan Voice Recognition Systems for Call Centers