Ant Financial lights up China Everbright Bank’s digital revamp
Overhaul includes cloud platforms and mobile architecture.
Biometrics
SMEs and selfies stick for FNB account opening
South African bank unveils selfie authentication… and “businessism”.
HSBC unveils facial-recognition banking for corporate customers
“Speeds up log-in times to less than a second.”
PayTech Awards 2018: tips on how to write a winning entry
The entry deadline is Friday, 4 May.
Arvato Financial Solutions invests $8m in SecuredTouch
Bringing the company’s total funding to $11.5 million.
Nets, Fingopay and Copenhagen Business School pilot finger vein payments
Pay with the touch of a finger.
Nubank turns to Acesso Digital for facial biometrics tech
Brazilian fintech Nubank leverages facial biometrics to help combat credit card fraud.
Phew, PayTech Awards entry deadline extended!
The final chance to enter is Friday, 4 May 2018.
China Construction Bank opens robot-run branch
No human staff to be seen in this robotic dream.
JCB pilots Japan’s first fingerprint authentication chip card
Teams with Idemia for biometrics and contactless innovation.
Is voice the next UI?
Theodora Lau discusses what the future might look like for fintech and brands.
PayTech Awards 2018: The Paytech for Good Award
Honouring organisations for outstanding social impact.
PayTech Awards 2018: meet the judges
The event is taking place on 13 July in London.
Pindrop is tongue-licking good for biometrics
Jaws drop as it launches Tongueprinting.
What is the India Stack and why is it no longer the dream it used to be?
The good, the bad and the ugly of the India Stack (or Aadhaar Stack) by Devie Mohan.
BBVA doesn’t hide “invisible payments” strategy
Bank is developing payment methods based on biometrics to make checkout at stores “invisible”.
Interview: Caren Robb, Letshego – look on the bright side
Creating inclusive banking for remote communities.
FinovateEurope 2018: Best of Show winners announced
A uniting theme of the FinovateEurope Best of Show winners this year: data.
Fintech funding round-up: 28 February 2018
Features Babb, Payslip and a global reminder.
ID Finance brings behavioural biometrics to fraud fight
Barcelona-based firm incorporating biometrics into its AI-based fraud scoring engine.
OCBC Bank first in Singapore to launch voice-powered banking
“Hey Siri, what’s my balance?”
Top fintech stories this week – 23 February 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Russia’s beta biometrics brings better banking security
Tinkoff Bank, VTB Bank and Pochta Bank have presented a beta version of their unified biometrics system.
Tinkoff Bank opens fintech development hub in Moscow
Will focus on new business solutions based on blockchain and biometrics.
Onfido to power KYC for Arro Money
Identity verification firm fuels know your customer checks.
Veridium to power biometrics for Nordea
Bank will use VeridiumID to replace tokens with biometric authentication for access to data.
BehavioSec boosted by $17.5m funding
Behavioural biometrics company now has total funding of almost $26 million.
Infographic: the future of identity
Nifty infographic based on the IBM Security Future of Identity Study.
Mastercard eyes biometric totality by 2019
Banks issuing Mastercard-branded cards will have to offer biometric authentication.
Jumio teams with Byteball to bring KYC to ICO issuers
When the gold rush is on, perhaps it’s better to sell picks and shovels to the miners.
Visa pilots new biometric payment card
With Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus for a new EMV dual-interface card.
Bank of Cyprus pilots fingerprint activated payment card
Removes the need for a four-digit or longer PIN entry.
Yes Bank and Nearby Tech bring cardless ATM services to India
With the aim to become the payments enabler for India.
Ghana government to leverage Entrust Datacard to issue national ID cards
Helping the Ghana government to issue national identity cards to its citizens in real time.
Daon forges strategic partnership with North African tech vendor Gemadec
Extending services to customers in North Africa and French-speaking African countries.
JCB tests multipurpose biometric authentication
in collaboration with Universal Robot and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Meed leverages ID verification tech from Jumio to serve the underbanked
Identity verification tech provider Jumio has teamed up with California-based fintech Meed.
Best Innovation Group brings Enrichment to credit union with Amazon Alexa
Enrichment FCU has rolled out Best Innovation Group’s financial interaction voice experience Amazon Alexa skill.
BS/2 and VisionLabs fool fraud with faithful facial recognition tech
BS/2, a Lithuanian banking technology company, and VisionLabs, a face recognition software provider, have teamed up to fight financial crime by offering contactless identification for self-service terminals. The duo will offer an integration solution – using BS/2’s ATMeye.iQ, a self-service video surveillance and fraud prevention system, and VisionLabs’ LUNA face recognition platform. The solution uses […]
BehavioSec’s behavioural biometrics right match for Crossmatch
BehavioSec has partnered with identity management firm Crossmatch in a deal that will add keystroke capture to Crossmatch’s composite authentication platform, DigitalPersona, reports David Penn at Finovate (Banking Technology’s sister company). “We selected BehavioSec’s platform because they are singularly focused on behavioural biometrics and have well-established and proven technology that already serves more than 35 million end […]
