MasterCard is testing a ‘Selfie Pay’ service in the Netherlands with International Card Services and Dutch bank ABN Amro... More
Biometrics
TD Bank to pilot NFC payments with Nymi biometric wristband
More than 100 TD Bank customers in Toronto, Canada are to begin piloting an NFC version of Nymi, a biometrically authenticated wristband that uses the wearer’s unique cardiac rhythm to verify their identity... More
CTBC Bank pilots ATM with biometrics
Employees of Taiwan’s CTBC Bank have begun piloting an ATM that uses both a finger vein scanning solution from Hitachi and facial recognition technology to authenticate transactions... More
Korean card issuers cleared for biometrics
Korean card issuers will adopt biometric recognition solutions from September following clearing from the Financial Services Commission... More
Three in four consumers interested in using alternatives to passwords online
One in six consumers find usernames and passwords “cumbersome” and 77% are interested in using alternatives to protect their security on the internet, research from Accenture reveals... More
US consumers put trust in biometrics
Some 41% of US consumers have a “high level” of comfort when logging in to a website or mobile app using a thumbprint or face/eye scan, research from Gigya finds... More
Dashlane adds fingerprint authentication
Password management and digital wallet app Dashlane is to let Samsung device users verify their identity using the fingerprint sensor on devices including the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge... More
Apple Pay goes live across the UK
Apple Pay is now live across the UK, enabling consumers with iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch devices to make NFC mobile payments at more than 250,000 locations and across the Transport for London (TfL) bus and underground rail network... More
MyCheck integrates Apple Pay support
Mobile payment provider MyCheck has announced support for Apple Pay in the UK, enabling customers at participating restaurants to settle their bill using the mobile payments service... More
Eight in 10 Americans aware of contactless payments
Some 82% of US consumers have heard of contactless or tap-and-go payments and 69% are now using chip cards or plan to use them soon, research from MasterCard reveals... More
Apple Pay faces problems in Korea
Apple faces challenges in introducing Apple Pay in Korea after failing to “coordinate different opinions” over transaction fees with local credit card companies, including Shinhan Card, Hyundai Card and KB Card... More
Apple gets face verification patent
Apple has been granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an authentication system to allow owners to unlock content on their devices by taking a picture of their face... More
One in four think UK will be cashless in 10 years
Nearly one in four UK consumers (23%) think the country will become a cashless society within 10 years, research from Equifax and Gorkana Surveys reveals... More
Fingerprint sensor market to grow at 17% CAGR
The fingerprint sensor market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17% between 2015 and 2020, research from MarketsandMarkets has found, with its value projected to reach US$14.5bn by 2020 from $5.5bn in 2014... More
ING adds biometrics to mobile banking app payments
Users of ING’s mobile banking app in the Netherlands can now use their voice or a fingerprint to authorise payments... More
38% of Americans back biometrics
More than a third (38%) of Americans believe biometrics will increase their smartphone security, while 25% are skeptical and 37% don’t know, research from Unisys Security Insights finds... More
MasterCard to pilot biometrics for online shopping
MasterCard is to test a system that will approve online purchases with a face or fingerprint scan later this year... More
Fido Alliance adds authentication support for NFC and BLE
The Fido Alliance has added new NFC and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transport protocols to its Universal Second Factor (U2F) authentication specification... More
Global payments company to launch biometric cards with fingerprint scanner
An undisclosed global payments company is to incorporate bendable fingerprint sensors into smart cards as part of a worldwide program to be rolled out in partnership with Norwegian biometrics provider Idex... More
Sharp includes fingerprint sensor in flagship smartphone
Sharp is to include biometric provider Synaptics’ Natural ID fingerprint sensor in its latest flagship smartphone... More