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January 25, 2022
Samsung Launches Comprehensive Fingerprint Security for Payment Cards

Samsung is launching the industry’s first fingerprint security IC (integrated circuit) — S3B512C — that offers enhanced biometrics for payment cards in an all-in-one chip solution. “S3B512C combines a fingerprint...


January 20, 2022
Digital Solutions to Allay EU Consumers’ Privacy Concerns

In the past two years, consumers have become more dependent on digital interactions, making data privacy a hot topic as a result. According to a recent PYMNTS report examining consumers’...


January 20, 2022
FinTech Today: Plaid Acquires Cognito for ID Verification; Spain’s Ibercaja...

In today’s top FinTech news, authentication gateway and data provider Plaid moved further into identity verification with the acquisition of Cognito, while Ibercaja Bank eyed becoming Spain’s first initial public...


January 20, 2022
How Avant Deploys Behavioral Analytics to Verify Its Customers

Stolen identities are available for as little as $8 on the dark web, making new account fraud more commonplace and usernames and passwords an ineffective authentication tool. In the Monetizing...


January 19, 2022
Today in the Connected Economy: Chicago Bulls Team With Klarna

Today in the connected economy, the Chicago Bulls team up with Klarna, while Instacart joins forces with Chase and Mastercard to launch a new credit card, and Sezzle works with...


January 19, 2022
Pandemic Has Made Air Travelers OK With Biometrics

Three years ago, if you’d asked air travelers if they’d be willing to offer up their biometric data in exchange for a more streamlined experience, less than half of them...


January 19, 2022
Deep Dive: How Digital Payment Options Impact Cross-Border Customer Satisfaction

eCommerce growth is expected to continue as the pandemic persists, and merchants are working to support the increasing volume of cross-border transactions. One survey found that 32% of consumers from 40 countries made more cross-border purchases from...


January 19, 2022
Government-Issued Digital IDs Lay Foundation for Trust — Online and...

More businesses than ever are using biometrics to make sure that people accessing services and making transactions are who they say they are. But as Jumio Chief of Digital Identity...


January 14, 2022
Jumio: 2021 Was the Year of Consolidation

Companies started stepping up their identity verification protections amid rising security threats from hackers and fraud in 2021, says Bala Kumar, chief product officer at Jumio. This year, look for...


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.