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Pakistan launches digital wallet for financial inclusion on back of biometric SIM registry
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Biometric Update Daily News
Record year for biometrics checks by iProov and Veriff
The UK’s biometric face authentication firm iProov has recorded another record year of growth in 2021 as global demand for...
 
NEC streamlines 1:N biometric matches for homomorphic encryption to protect data
Homomorphic encryption for biometric matching holds the promise of data protection even in use, and NEC Corporation is the latest technology...
Know your dataset and be creative: biometric PAD tips offered in EAB talk
Spoofs and presentation attacks are a threat to any biometric modality, but there are some common approaches to developing algorithms...
 
Biometrics investment surge continues with FPC’s $33M bond issue, planned TeleSign IPO
Fingerprint Cards has raised SEK 300 million (US$33.2 million) in a senior secure bond issue to invest in working capital and...
€2.8M funding for startup Mobai’s biometric data protection project
Enhanced face biometrics, presentation attack detection, face quality assessment and biometric template protection in the Scandinavian banking sector are the...
 
Veridos, Cerence gets new CEOs to drive digital ID, edge AI ambitions
Veridos is set to have a new leader in place from January next year when 37-year-old Marc-Julien Siewert takes over...
Partial success in transparency lawsuit into EU’s AI lie detector research
Member of the European Parliament and civil liberties campaigner Patrick Breyer has achieved a partial success in his legal dispute...
 
Checkin.com acquires Datacorp for AI image analysis in $4.7M deal
Checkin.com Group has acquired all shares in Estonian AI software firm Datacorp OÜ for €4.15 million (US$4.7 million) to add to...
Innovatrics enhances biometric liveness detection with image quality checks
Filtering out low quality images from assessments improves the accuracy of Innovatrics’ passive biometric liveness algorithm, as the company’s Head...
 
Zwipe biometric payment cards could be coming to North America, Egypt starts trials
The latest destinations have emerged for potential deals to launch Zwipe’s biometric payment card. Issuers in North America may soon...
CyberLink upgrades management tools for biometric surveillance and access control platform
CyberLink has updated its biometric surveillance and access control software with a new Video Monitoring and Recording (VMR) module and a...
 
Megvii, CloudWalk, Yitu to join SenseTime on US investment blacklist
U.S. investors are to be barred from investing in eight more Chinese firms alleged to be involved in abuses in...
Evernym acquisition sets next chapter for self-sovereign identity in Europe
There was big news in the world of self-sovereign digital identity last week, with the announcement of Avast acquiring Evernym....
 
Enterprise biometric solution combines Nymi wearable, G+D access control technology
A wristband for passwordless physical and logical biometric access control has been jointly developed by Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) and Nymi to unify...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
LEAP | Global Tech Event In Saudi Arabia
  February 1, 2022 - February 3, 2022
LEAP | Global Tech Event In Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia February 1-3, 2022 The largest tech event in history just...
Idemia’s Biometric Breakfast
  February 2, 2022 - February 2, 2022
Idemia’s Biometric Breakfast February 2, 2022 Vienna, Austria IDEMIA Biometric Devices’ next “Biometric breakfast” session will take place in Vienna,...
Border Security Conference
  February 7, 2022 - February 8, 2022
Border Security Conference February 7 – 8, 2021 London, UK With COVID-19 spreading across the globe, the security and integrity...
Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia
  March 15, 2022 - March 17, 2022
Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia Singapore March 15-17, 2022 The Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia conference and exhibition...
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe
  March 15, 2022 - March 17, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe Bucharest, Romania March 15-17, 2022 Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Europe brings together leading...