POS AG Enables SIM Card Self-activation with BioID Tech
The Austrian software company POS AG has deployed BioID’s identity verification services to allow its customers to self-activate their SIM cards. POS AG will specifically…
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Four Years After Hack Attack, Slack Resets User Passwords
“For its part, Slack has taken the opportunity to further promote the use of post-password security measures, asserting in its email, ‘We recommend using two-factor authentication with every service that provides it, including Slack, for an extra layer of security.’” Four years after a major hack attack, the business-focused instant messaging platform Slack is taking…
ENACOMM Gets Another Reseller for Conversational Banking Tech
“ENACOMM’s Virtual Personal Assistant and Interactive Voice Response solutions are designed to let end users do their banking entirely through conversation with AI-driven systems, provided that they are properly authenticated.” ENACOMM has teamed with another reseller partner for its financial services automation technology. United Solutions Company (USC), a Credit Union Services Organization with a roster…
After Big AI Investment, Hyundai Mobis Announces Biometric Driver Assessment System
“In addition to helping to ensure safe driving, the DSW system is also capable of performing driver identification, and could be used to trigger personalization of in-car settings.” Just a few months after its investment in computer vision specialist Deep Glint, automotive components supplier Hyundai Mobis has announced a new Driver State Warning (DSW) system…
IDEX Biometrics Client Attains Mass Production Standards for Biometric Cards
“With the manufacturing standards achieved, and the capacity of the production line, I am confident that biometric smart cards are ready for mass production and volume delivery to customers.” – Stan Swearingen, CEO, IDEX Biometrics IDEX Biometrics has achieved an important milestone in the biometric payment cards race, thanks to one of its customers. The…
IDEMIA Solidifies IoT Position with Expanded Deutsche Telekom Partnership
“…IDEMIA’s Smart Connect Entitlement solution is a cloud-based solution designed to help mobile operators to quickly and cost-effectively perform authentication for device subscriptions, entitlement authorization, notifications, VoWiFi and VoLTE management, and more.” IDEMIA has firmed up its leading position in the emerging Internet of Things market through an expansion of its partnership with Deutsche Telekom.…
Apple Highlights Touch ID on New Laptops, but Face ID is MIA
“While the new laptops’ announcement comes soon after the launch of a new iPhone commercial in which Apple touted Face ID as easier and more secure than Touch ID, it nevertheless emphasized Touch ID as a highlight of the new laptops’ features.” Apple has updated its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, but still hasn’t…
Top Stories: In-car Payments and Other Cutting-edge Technologies
In keeping with the general theme of Mobile ID World, this week’s most popular articles were, for the most part, concerned with new, emerging, and future technologies – not to mention one particularly hot trend in today’s payments industry. That trend is the evolution of payments from cash to digital, contactless mechanisms that offer greater…
Smaller Notch Report Fuels In-Display Touch ID Speculation for Future iPhone
A new report from renowned mobile industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo lends further credibility to the speculation that Apple is planning to incorporate in-display fingerprint scanning into at least one forthcoming iPhone model. Kuo doesn’t focus on this technology specifically, but asserts in his latest report that at least one iPhone planned for Apple’s 2020 iPhone…
Biggest LATAM Investment Bank Leverages Jumio Tech for Onboarding
“[Jumio]’s solution combines facial recognition and document reading technology to verify the identities of end users, allowing financial services firms like BTG Pactual to automate the digital onboarding process while maintaining security and adhering to KYC requirements.” BTG Pactual has become the latest bank to embrace Jumio‘s biometric customer onboarding technology. Based in Brazil, BTG…
Nxt-ID Board Approves IoT Payments Spinoff
“At its outset, PartX’s platform revolves around the tokenization of payment card details, which helps to secure digital transactions.” Nxt-ID, the parent company of wearable payments specialist Fit Pay, is launching a spinoff subsidiary that will manage its IoT payments activities. The spinoff, which was recently approved by Nxt-ID’s Board of Directors, will be called…
New Pixel 4 XL Renders Hint at In-Display Fingerprint Scanning
“The Pixel 4 XL, as depicted in the new renders, has an almost full-size screen, with a small bezel on the bottom of the device’s front face, and a somewhat thicker top bezel that appears to house dual cameras and two other sensors.” New renders of the Google’s next big Pixel smartphone are further making…
Feitian Joins Microsoft Security Alliance
“Feitian made its announcement at the recent Identiverse 2019 event in Washington, DC, where the company also showcased its major new security product, the AllinPass K33.” China-based Feitian has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, or MISA, the company has announced. MISA is Microsoft’s effort to team up with strategic security partners to help defend…
FIDO Dominates This Week’s Top Stories
There’s usually a pretty diverse range of topics encompassed in Mobile ID World’s top articles for the week, and while that’s true this time, there is also an undeniable through line: The FIDO Alliance and its standards dominate this week’s roundup of Mobile ID World’s top stories. The authentication standards body itself made news with…
World Cup Analysis from Visa Shows Consumer Shift to Contactless Payments
During the group stage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Visa found that fans across the host cities in France made purchases using contactless payment technology 51 percent of the time. The financial services giant, which is FIFA’s Official Payment Services Partner, says these purchases were performed using a variety of mechanisms, including smartphones, wristbands…
IDEX Gets Australian Patent for On-card Enrollment System
“In IDEX’s system, a smart card – eg. a biometric credit card – would be mailed to an end user together with a lightweight receptacle featuring an integrated power source. The card is inserted into the receptacle, and then the user registers their fingerprint on the card.” IDEX Biometrics has won an Australian patent for…
Yubico, Partners Celebrate FIDO2 Success
The WebAuthn standard is seeing growing support, and Yubico is celebrating that growth with a new blog post featuring commentary from some of the company’s biggest partners. To recap: WebAuthn is the key component of the FIDO Alliance’s FIDO2 authentication standard. It’s essentially designed to enable end users to ditch passwords when logging into online…
Banco Bolivariano Chooses FacePhi for Biometric Onboarding
“We keep on considering the Latin American market as a strategic point in our corporate expansion, which is why we continue to bet on consolidating our position in this area.”- Javier Mira, CEO, FacePhi Biometric onboarding and authentication specialist FacePhi has further cemented its leading position in the Latin American market with a new agreement…
HID Global Gets Security Cards and Keys FIDO2-compliant
“All major web browsers now support FIDO2 authentication, which means HID Global’s Crescendo keys will enable their users to access accounts with their smart cards or security keys using NFC, USB-A, or USB-C connectivity.” HID Global has upgraded its Crescendo smart cards to be compliant with the FIDO Alliance’s FIDO2 authentication standard, the company has…
Global Facial Recognition Market to Hit $7 Billion by 2024
“Notably, despite the growing popularity of facial recognition in consumer technology since Apple helped to popularize selfie authentication with its Face ID system, MarketsandMarkets points to demand in government, surveillance, and industry areas as being key to the modality’s growth.” The global facial recognition market will grow from an estimated value of $3.2 billion this…
