Identity

04 Apr 16 @ 12:54

Apple is set to launch one-touch shopping to the mobile Web later this year, enabling consumers with Safari browsers running on phones and tablets to use Apple Pay and TouchID to... read more

29 Mar 16 @ 13:14

Online identification verification company, Jumio,  whose clients include United Airlines and Airbnb, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US business and initiated the sale of assets, according... read more

23 Mar 16 @ 14:35

ABI Research is predicting that the overall biometrics market will reach a value of $30 billion by the year 2021. In a statement summarizing recent findings, the market research firm... read more

23 Mar 16 @ 14:24

American Express is reported to be investigating a potential data breach by a merchant in California. Apparently, the merchant was compromised, leading to the possible exposure of account numbers, names, expiration... read more

21 Mar 16 @ 12:51

Statistics by Financial Fraud Action (FFA) UK show fraud losses on UK payment cards totalled £567.5 million in 2015, representing an 18% increase from £479 million one year before. Significantly,  total... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:15

Banks are starting to experiment with a new way of reducing credit-card fraud: tracking their customers’ mobile phones. The principle is straightforward enough. People are wedded to their phones, so if... read more

04 Mar 16 @ 16:47

In a recent First Annapolis study of financial institution fraud experience in the US, participants reported average fraud losses (net fraud) in the first half of 2015 of 13.1 bps... read more

03 Mar 16 @ 15:40

Google has launched a new app called Hands Free that doesn’t require you to take your phone out of your pocket and uses face biomerics. The new system is available on... read more

02 Mar 16 @ 15:15

Payments Cards and Mobile interviewed Ajay Bhalla of MasterCard to understand what is hot in the world of biometric payments including selfie pay and securing the further digitisation of payments.

02 Mar 16 @ 15:09

According to payments networks Visa and MasterCard, consumers are getting much more comfortable with biometric payments. Research from the fourth annual MasterCard Mobile Payments Study finds cardholders increasingly are asking for... read more

26 Feb 16 @ 13:13

Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, revealing that 1,673 data breaches led to 707 million data records being compromised worldwide during 2015. The Breach Level Index... read more

23 Feb 16 @ 12:12

MasterCard announced it will bring facial recognition payment services, “selfie pay” to the UK as part of a range of new services designed to improve identity verification for mobile phone... read more