In some ways, payments authentication can come across as improvisational — every institution seems to use a different method. Call centers, particularly those dealing with financial transactions, have a strong need to be sure that the person on the other end of the line is actually...
Fido Alliance has launched a certification program for biometrics systems to create a “framework for the certification of biometric subsystems that can in turn be integrated into FIDO-certified authenticators.” The not-for-profit Fido Alliance, which has a board that includes security executive reps from companies such...
There are many locales that come to mind in looking toward the next big thing in FinTech, in payments, in AI and beyond. London and Silicon Valley make the cut, and increasingly, so does Montreal. The Canadian city is increasingly on FinTech’s radar amid a...
Juniper Research predicted in a new report that the biggest shift coming in the mobile payment security industry is a movement toward software-based methods for verification that rely on standard smartphone components. In a press release, the market research firm forecasted that users of these methods...
In the world of Digital Identity Verification, convergence is when AI-tech and human intelligence converge to keep the cybercrooks at bay, says Jumio CTO Labhesh Patel. It’s also the focus of Jumio’s new Montreal-based AI Labs where, he says, the world’s brightest minds are converging...
It looks like a Chromebook with fingerprint sensors is finally on the way — and that support will be built directly into Chrome OS. “Digging deeper into this commit, I found reference to OOBE or the ‘out of box experience’ that refers to the initial...
It’s one of the ideals of payments and commerce, a vision that drives so much research and experimentation: Making it through a store checkout lane without fishing for a card or waving a mobile phone, or even checking into a hotel after an exhausting flight...
When the internet debuted to the public, no one could have foreseen how important identity would become over the next few decades. Perhaps, if they had, someone would have built it into the internet protocol, jokes Jumio CPO Philipp Pointner. But it’s one of those...
It was two weeks before Blake Hall’s unit would deploy for combat in Iraq, and suddenly he and his 32 men were being told they weren’t going into direct combat after all; they would instead be running a kill-and-capture mission, something none of them had...
