Biometrics

Investors have poured $15 million into Nymi to help the Toronto startup commercialize its wearable authentication technology.

The risky side of bots played a role in last year's IRS hack. But non-data driven security can fight back, argues Robert Capps, a vice president at NuData.

An upcoming release of Android Pay may have a biometric facial recognition component named “Visual ID," according to a recent teardown of the app. This functionality could open up numerous possibilities for merchants.

As China's only gambling center, the island has become a crime risk, pressuring greater security for card transactions.

The plastic card is an aging tool in payments, but there's still room for innovation in its design and features. Here are a few new concepts that favor technology and style as differentiators.

Financial services provider Transamerica has adopted Nuance Communications’ biometrics technology that uses a customer’s voice for authentication.

The widespread use of fingerprint authentication in mobile devices has made many consumers comfortable with the technology. So is Mastercard's test of a biometric payment card a case of plastic catching up to a modern tech trend, or is it instead dragging biometrics back in time?

False IDs are complex and difficult to spot. A combination of biometrics and other advanced security tecnology is needed.

To battle the rise of new-account fraud, Dublin-based Experian has adopted a new tool from BioCatch, which uses behavioral biometric technology to spot fraudulent applicants.

Hacker group Shadow Brokers says U.S. intel agency compromised parts of the global banking system; bank's directors gear up for tough election at annual meeting.

In the near future, branch authentication will likely rely more on things like iris scans and palm readers than physical ID cards.

The speed of the crooks and the threat to retailers and customer data is more than enough reason to get aggressive with new identity protections.

Mastercard has added another layer to its security for the evolving Internet of Things (IoT) with the acquisition of NuData, a Vancouver, Canada-based company whose technology analyzes biometric and behavioral patterns.

As multi-factor identification becomes the norm, biometrics can be one or more steps that consumers can easily execute.

Royal Bank of Canada has long been enthusiastic about payment technology that most other banks usually see as long-term projects.

Biometric authentication has been around for a while, but companies are still finding new uses for it in payments and commerce. Here are some of the latest developments.

Samsung Electronics Co.’s new Galaxy S8 will employ facial-recognition technology for mobile payments within months of release, adding cutting-edge security to help the marquee device stand out from rivals such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone, people familiar with the matter said.

In an increasingly digital world, retailers are working to bring transactions closer to the shopper and further away from traditional hardware.

Screen scraping has plenty of critics, but the alternatives, OAuth and APIs, have their share of detractors, too.

The human voice changes more quickly than you’d think, and this has to be taken into account by voice-recognition systems.