BMO’s biometric corporate credit card program uses MasterCard Identity Check BMO Financial Group (BMO) and MasterCard began a phased roll-out today of a biometric corporate credit card program in Canada and the U.S. that will let cardholders verify online transactions using facial recognition and fingerprint biometrics. In the first...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition | Financial Services | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Israeli biometric database authority acknowledges potential security flaws A legal adviser to the Israeli Biometric Database Management Authority acknowledged this week that the potential for database breaches of the country’s experimental biometric identity database couldn’t be ruled out, but that it was not a pressing concern. According...full story Categories: Access Control | Biometric News | Government Purchasing Share: Facebook | Twitter

Hong Kong mobile banking startup using biometrics for identity verification Neat is a mobile banking startup based in Hong Kong that blends biometric security with machine intelligence. The new bank, co-founded by former Citibank veteran David Rosa, is currently testing its technology and receiving guidance and mentorship as part...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition | Financial Services Share: Facebook | Twitter

Rx Safes committed to meet the listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital Markets: CEO Rx Safes will be presenting at the Sidoti Spring 2016 Emerging Growth Convention in New York City later this month. The convention connects management teams from companies with a market cap of less than $600 million with small and...full story Categories: Access Control | Biometric News | Healthcare Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

BluStor to participate in Amazon’s LaunchPad program BluStor has partnered with Amazon’s start-up program LaunchPad to fulfill e-commerce sales of its new personal biometric identification solution, CyberGate Secure Mobile Briefcase (SMB). The CyberGate SMB is a sophisticated, wireless, personal biometric identification and data storage card that...full story Categories: Biometric News | Mobile Biometrics | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Turkey starts distributing biometric identity cards Turkish authorities have started distribution of its new biometric identity cards and have selected Kirikkale as the pilot province for this new program. The new biometric identity cards will be valid for ten years and contains a chip that,...full story Categories: Biometric News | Civil ID | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Mobile payments driving adoption of fingerprint tech by Chinese smartphone vendors Chinese smartphone vendors are expected to ship 200 to 300 million fingerprint recognition enabled smartphones in 2016, according to a report in Digitimes. Smartphone vendors increasing adoption of fingerprint recognition functionality for mid-range and high-end devices are driving the...full story Categories: Biometric News | Financial Services | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Xura and SpeechPro piloting biometric authentication for enterprise customers in financial services sector Xura announced that it is working with SpeechPro to pilot its biometric technology and offer enterprise customers, particularly those in the financial services sector, the ability to provide secure facial recognition and voice authentication within a mobile app, alongside,...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition | Financial Services | Voice Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

European Association for Biometrics and IDIAP hosting workshop on new research consortium Next month, the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and IDIAP will host a workshop in Amsterdam on the European Cooperative Identity Technologies Research Consortium, the EAB-CITeR. The EAB-CITeR is an EAB committee under the governance of the EAB statutes....full story Categories: Biometric News | Biometric R&D Share: Facebook | Twitter

Google bringing Android Pay to the UK Google will bring Android Pay to the UK in the next couple of months, according to a report in the BBC. The mobile payment system allows any device with a NFC chip running Android 4.4 or higher to act...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Mobile Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

Southwest Border Security Week 2016 Southwest Border Security Week 2016 March 30 – April 01, 2016 McAllen, TX Southwest Border Security Week 2016 Scrutiny of the southwest border protection initiatives have been growing in recent years, particularly due to a surge in transnational crime,...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Money20/20 Europe Money20/20 Europe April 4-7, 2016 Bella Center, Copenhagen Welcome to an entirely new, world-class experience for European innovators. A Eurocentric catalyst for the growth and development of a Payments & Financial Services Ecosystem increasingly defined by disruptive innovations in...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

ISC West 2016 ISC WEST 2016 April 5 – 8, 2016 Las Vegas, NV ISC WEST is THE largest security industry trade show in the U.S. At ISC West you will have the chance to meet with technical reps from 1,000+ exhibitors...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

European Association for Biometrics – CITeR Workshop EAB – CITeR Workshop April 5 2016 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Organizer: IDIAP in cooperation with the European Association for Biometrics Attendance is free of charge. Registration is required. Lunch not included. IDIAP and EAB will host an informative workshop...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Cyber Security Summit Europe Cyber Security Summit Europe 6-7 April 2016, Prague Cyber-Mix for Business of Tomorrow Need to get out of your Cyber Security comfort zone? Attend the 6th Annual Cyber Security Summit Europe and learn more about out highly interactive program...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter