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October 16, 2013
New Science Transaction Security Case Study

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October 16, 2013
How Biometric POS Solutions Became Market-Ready

By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_)  Started by a young visionary, the company’s innovations quickly came to define the century, its name adorned countless household technologies and its newest advances are poised...


October 14, 2013
Biometric Efforts Seek Staying Power

By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) Until recently, little effort to bring biometrics to the masses has occurred since Solidus Networks Inc.’s Pay By Touch service shuttered half a decade ago. Today,...


October 11, 2013
MasterCard’s Biometrics Play

MasterCard has come together with Fido Alliance in an effort to replace password-based online authentication with hardware-embedded biometrics, according to a press release. Fido, using PayPal, plans to get rid...


September 13, 2013
Washington Speaks About Payments Innovation And Regulation

Most people may associate the Treasury Department with fiscal policy, but just over one year ago, the Office of Consumer Policy was formed to focus on retail financial services, consumer...


September 10, 2013
Apple Bets Big On Biometrics With iPhone 5S

By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) Following months of anticipation, Apple finally unveiled its latest smartphone products – the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C – in a September 10 event at...


September 09, 2013
Newly Revealed Apple Patent Revives NFC Rumors

A newly released patent application has uncovered that Apple may be experimenting with a version of near-field communication (NFC) that uses “body coupled communications,” NFC World reported on September 9....


September 06, 2013
Facebanx Seeks To Become New Face Of Payment Security

By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) “The time is now right for biometric technology to emerge as a secure solution for mobile applications that require high levels of security, particularly payment. From...


September 03, 2013
Behind The Buzzword: How Merchants Should Approach Omnicommerce

There are plenty of ways merchants can justify taking a wait-and-see omnicommerce strategy. They can cite the high cost of investment, the lack of demand from customers or concerns consumers...


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.