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Could biometrics bridge the financial exclusion gap?
Exploring the scale of financial exclusion and the intrinsic issue of digital identities, Simon Binns, COO at FinGo, considers the role of biometrics in helping to close this gap – and whether it could meet the needs of society’s most hard-to-reach individuals .. keep reading this report

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Potential ways to avoid digital ID’s dark side concludes ID4Africa trilogy
Different digital identity systems and technologies were considered in ID4Africa’s final livecast of trilogy on ‘The Dark Side of Identity,’...
 
Mastercard, Thales and FPC supply biometric payment card launch in Poland
Bank Pocztowy in Poland is the latest to begin issuing biometric payment cards to its customers, following a trial conducted...
A few bars are being raised in the U.S. for mDL authentication
An expansive, new round of testing for upgraded credential authentication technology in the United States has begun. The program could...
 
Togo signs MoU to establish MOSIP digital identity system
Togo’s National Agency for Identification (Agence Nationale de l’Identification, ANID) has signed an agreement with IIIT-Bangalore for collaboration on developing...
SenseTime relies on investor rebalance for $767M Hong Kong IPO relaunch
Chinese facial recognition provider SenseTime has relaunched its US$767 million IPO after retracting its listing in light of being added to...
 
Amazon Ring patents hint at biometric surveillance capabilities
A series of 17 patents granted to Amazon for its Ring products over the last two years seems to suggest...
Australian government steps up digital ID efforts with new funding, age verification trials
Australia’s federal government has already begun trials of age verification for the purchase of alcohol by using digital identity, while...
 
Startup support for biometrics and AI development: Intema joins Nvidia Inception, new NEC fund
Intema, a subsidiary of Russian company MTS AI, has announced that its US$100 million AI accelerator program for education has...
Suprema ID to provide high-speed mobile biometric capturing for Arana Security kit
A deal between Suprema ID and Arana Security will see the former’s RealScan-G10 FAP60 fingerprint scanner included in the latter’s...
 
Surprisingly low-tech attacks on high-tech biometrics systems
Not all biometric fraud is a complex coding job taken on by international cybercriminals. Sometimes it is someone nearby staring...
Irish biometric public services access card not to be mandatory
The Irish government has backed down from a legal challenge against the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on usage of...
 
Could biometrics bridge the financial exclusion gap?
Exploring the scale of financial exclusion and the intrinsic issue of digital identities, Simon Binns, Chief Operating Officer at FinGo,...
India’s cabinet okays proposal to have Aadhaar biometrics linked with voter IDs
A proposed bill seeking to reform certain provisions of India’s electoral law, dubbed the Representation of the People Act, is...
 
Large-scale face biometrics deployments, ID document plan details revealed
A series of large biometrics projects, deployments and investments were unveiled in the most-read stories on Biometric Update this week,...
  Record year for biometrics checks by iProov and Veriff
  NEC streamlines 1:N biometric matches for homomorphic encryption to protect data
  Know your dataset and be creative: biometric PAD tips offered in EAB talk
  Biometrics investment surge continues with FPC’s $33M bond issue, planned TeleSign IPO
  €2.8M funding for startup Mobai’s biometric data protection project
  Veridos, Cerence gets new CEOs to drive digital ID, edge AI ambitions
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