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November 28, 2023
Amazon Debuts Palm-Based ID Service Amazon One Enterprise

Amazon is bringing its palm-based identity service to the world of corporate security. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday (Nov. 27) the debut of Amazon One Enterprise, a contactless security tool designed to...


November 24, 2023
Biometrics May Be Online Retail’s Ticket to More Sales

Retailers are leveraging innovative solutions, such as biometrics, to enhance convenience, security and personalized services in their day-to-day business. Biometrics systems are gaining popularity as an authentication method for more...


November 22, 2023
IDEX Biometrics Receives Initial Order From Smart Card Manufacturer

IDEX Biometrics has received an initial order for IDEX Pay, its biometric solution designed for metal cards, from a smart card manufacturing partner in Asia. The partner, who was not...


November 16, 2023
Prove Identity Teams With Elo to Fight Fraud in Brazil

Prove Identity says Brazilian payment tech company Elo will use its technology to battle fraud. The partnership, announced Thursday, will let Elo leverage Prove’s identity verification solutions to improve its customer experiences while also...


November 15, 2023
Biometric Authentication Tailor-Made for a Digital-First World

The realm of payments authentication is undergoing a shift. In today’s digital era, where convenience meets security and organizations and individuals alike no longer need to make a trade-off between...


November 14, 2023
Worldline Offers Tap to Pay For Merchants in France

Worldline says its large merchant clients in France can now offer Apple’s tap-to-pay. The payments firm announced Tuesday (Nov. 14) that merchants can use the iPhone-based payment method to collect payments via...


November 14, 2023
Mastercard Launches Biometric Payments Partnership With NEC

Mastercard has teamed with NEC to bring biometric checkout to the Asia Pacific region. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Nov. 14), combines NEC’s facial recognition and liveness verification technology with Mastercard’s payment operations, and comes as...


November 09, 2023
Gen X Leads Mobile Adoption for Grocery Purchases

Despite not being digital natives, Generation X is leading the way for mobile payments, surpassing the other generations in how often this method is used in grocery and non-grocery purchases. More...


October 31, 2023
The Road to Customer Loyalty Runs Through Call Center Security

For every trusted resource, there is a bad actor trying to take advantage of it. And that is the catch-22 of call centers. The pivotal role they play across various...


Digital Identity: Ditching Passwords Could Unlock A $59 Billion Biometrics Market
Ditching Passwords Could Unlock a $59 Billion Biometrics Market The findings come from this month’s Digital Identity Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Prove collaboration, which examined how advanced verification tech is not only boosting security but also giving 58% of consumers what they want — faster and more convenient biometric authentication.
Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile
51% of Online Buyers Used Biometrics Instead of Passwords Biometric authentication, once just a sci-fi trope, has become so common that most consumers who shopped online used biometrics to validate their purchase. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 3,278 U.S. consumers explores why so many users like biometrics — and what it will take to win over the half who are holdouts. Read more in “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile,” a collaboration with AWS.