John Adams

Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.

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Despite lowering barriers and eliminating borders for commerce, the internet still makes it clunky comparison-shop for products across multiple sites. E-commerce startup Shoppable aims to solve this by creating a universal shopping cart.

Blockchain is already taking a bite out of the fees traditional financial institutions extract from cross-border transactions by providing a workaround that avoids third parties.

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Security professionals have long argued against the use of static identifiers like passwords and Social Security numbers, while consumers have long questioned why a handful of bureaus can claim to be the ultimate judges of their identities.

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While the EMV fraud liability shift for most companies passed nearly two years ago, there are still pockets of stores that haven't switched over — and they can be particularly prone to the kind of fraud chip cards are designed to thwart.

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