Search results for "biometrics"

August 12, 2013
Report: Biometrics Key To mPayment Security

California-based market research firm Frost & Sullivan believes that biometrics may be the solution that can secure mobile payments against security threats during card-not-present transactions, an August 7 press release...


August 11, 2013
Natural Security Succeeds With French Fingerprint Payments Pilot

By Chanel Smith, EMEA Editor (@PYMNTS_EMEA) Timing is everything: a theory Natural Security reaffirmed through its recent six-month trial of fingerprint biometrics payments. Natural Security, a French biometrics payments technology...


July 11, 2013
Apple’s Wearables And French Biometrics Get Fancy

Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which...


April 29, 2013
Mobile Banking Solutions: Back To Basics

By Clayton Locke, CTO, Intelligent Environments With announcements of new mobile banking solutions happening every week, it is no secret that the mobile money marketplace is becoming increasingly competitive. In...


April 18, 2013
Online Security Measures Inhibit UK, US, German Consumers

Online shopping can be fun. Fun, that is, until you reach the checkout point and you’re forced to decode a cryptic word to pass the authentication process that you’ve failed...


April 18, 2013
Ingenico Introduces Biometric Technology, iWB Bio Series

Ingenico, a French-based payment service provider, has introduced the iWB Bio Series, which authorizes biometric authentication via mobile and fingerprint solution, reports The Paypers. The iWB Bio Series integrates four...


April 08, 2013
Gemalto To Lead Visa And Border Management In Ghana

Gemalto, a global leader in digital security, has been selected as the primary contractor and turnkey provider to implement a secure electronic and border management solution for the Ghana Immigration...


March 05, 2013
UniCredit Rolls Out Biometric Payments

European banking group UniCredit has announced it will soon make available a biometric payments solution for its clients in Italy. The technology is provided by Fujitsu and has been based...


February 20, 2013
Biometric Payments Come To Germany With Atos Worldline

Atos Worldline, Atos core expertise in hi-tech transactional services, signed a framework agreement with Telekom Deutschland for the development, setup and operation of the new “Pay-At-Match®” system. This new cashless...


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.