Biometrics

18 Mar 21 @ 16:47

Amid rising hype about mobile wallets, P2P FinTech challengers and QR-code payments, this year’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks show a card segment in robust health, with business growing strongly.... read more

11 Mar 21 @ 11:05

Russia’s largest food retailer, the X5 Group, has partnered with Visa and Sber to launch Face Pay biometrics at self-service checkout terminals in its stores, the facial recognition payment system may... read more

01 Mar 21 @ 11:30

New market research on contactless cards from TietoEVRY shows that UK and European consumers are concerned about infection risk when paying in-store, with worries about theft and fraud growing as... read more

26 Feb 21 @ 13:08

Over the past decade, the UK has been quietly undergoing a FinTech revolution – in jobs, innovation, improvements to people’s lives and in increased opportunities in global trade. A look... read more

23 Feb 21 @ 16:18

New research points to changing payment habits among online shoppers. A European study of 10,000 consumers and 1,000 merchants found that seven out of ten (71%) UK shoppers now prefer... read more

02 Feb 21 @ 15:50

A new study has found that biometrics will authenticate over $3 trillion of payment transactions in 2025, from just $404 billion in 2020. The report found that biometrics, including fingerprint,... read more

17 Nov 20 @ 18:56

As 2020 comes to an end, leaders in governments and key industries are working to determine how people can safely return to work, particularly in travel and tourism where jobs... read more

06 Oct 20 @ 17:10

The latest version of the World Payments Report has been released today, payment firms are being pushed rapidly into transformation, even as they handle larger transaction volumes, face increased competition... read more

16 Sep 20 @ 15:06

The Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) has announced the launch of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF), a set of digital ID and authentication industry standards that will define... read more

11 Sep 20 @ 12:08

For those less familiar, the Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services, or the eIDAS system as it is more commonly known, came into effect on 1st July 2016, with Regulation (EU) 910/2014 on electronic identification... read more

10 Sep 20 @ 16:07

The world is moving ever closer to digital currency for all. Although investors have watched cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Zcash grow for years, national digital currencies are now starting... read more

08 Jul 20 @ 11:05

New reveals that despite universal consumer advice that one password for all financial accounts is equivalent to leaving the front door open, only 40% of UK consumers have separate passwords... read more