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TSA administrator makes an abbreviated case for more money for biometrics
‘Tis the season for U.S. federal bureaucrats to extoll recent accomplishments and ask Congress on bended knee for only enough...
 
Socure more than doubles customer growth in Q1 2022, appoints new CFO
Socure reports record customer growth in the first quarter of 2022 for its face biometrics identity verification platform, as it hires...
Suprema ID biometric enrollment scanners confirmed MOSIP-compliant
Two of Suprema ID’s biometric enrollment scanners completed compliance self-testing and integration with the Modular Open-Source Identification Platform (MOSIP) security...
 
Sun, sand and digital dollars: PopID brings face biometrics to Bahamas CBDC
PopID is bringing its PopPay face biometric verification platform to a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the first time....
Nuance shares voice biometrics fraud prevention successes in EAB talk
Voice biometrics avoid some of the common challenges around authentication for financial institutions, and have resulted in huge savings through...
 
Inspector General sees big things for US Post Office’s ID verification capabilities
Could the U.S. Postal Service, the federal government’s most trusted agency, become the nation’s ID verifier of choice? An inspector...
Canadian CIO outlines strategy with digital ID focus
Canada’s chief information officer (CIO) says she is looking to refresh the country’s digital strategy with major reforms, one being...
 
NEC America, Mitek, Elenium add biometrics, logistics expertise with veteran hires
Three biometric solution providers, namely NEC America, Mitek and Elenium, have appointed industry veterans to help steer different areas of...
Australia still plugging gaps identified in digital ID system in 2019
An until-now unseen report from over three years ago suggests major changes to Australia’s digital ID system, some of which...
 
SIA unveils award winners for Women in Biometrics, other distinctions
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced winners of its 2022 Awards in three different categories, which include the Women...
Winning.I contactless fingerprint biometrics traction among South Korean insurers growing
Winning.I  has won South Korean insurance company DB Insurance as a client for its contactless fingerprint biometrics software as an...
 
US senators want FTC probe into ID.me
A group of Democratic senators led by Senator Ron Wyden have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate ID.me for allegedly...
Contact biometrics back in play after Manila’s Covid alert drops to lowest level
Optimistic that the recent flare of COVID-19 cases has subsided and stabilized, the Philippines government has resumed capturing biometric, including...
 
Fintech company Plaid moves into biometric ID verification, KYC and AML checks
Plaid, a fintech company and app that connects users to their financial accounts, is adding a biometric identity verification solution...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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