Tagged: Facial Recognition

May 28, 2023 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) has reportedly become the first bank in the UAE to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) “with convenient remote account opening services through a mobile app by deploying Emirates Face Recognition (EFR) technology.” This new feature will “allow businesses to… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Azerbaijan-headquartered SmilePay has reportedly entered agreements with two large food retailers in the nation in order to allow consumers to purchase their groceries using their faces. SmilePay has acquired an investment from the largest acquirer bank in Azerbaijan, Pasha, and entered deals with the Bravo… Read More

April 6, 2022 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PopID, a consumer authentication service, and Visa (NYSE: V), a key player in digital payments, announced a partnership “to collaborate on launching facial verification payment acceptance in the Middle East region.” The goal of the partnership is “to provide cardholders with new safe, secure, and… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 11:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it will transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition in order to help authenticate individuals creating new online accounts. The transition will take place over the coming weeks in order to “prevent larger disruptions… Read More

October 25, 2021 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VisionLabs, the facial recognition company, has announced the launch of its biometric payment hardware — the VisionLabs LUNA POS Terminal. The certified terminal is the first payment device to enable traditional credit card payments and biometric facial recognition payments. With six design and three utility… Read More

July 7, 2021 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crown Agents Bank reveals that it has introduced a biometric authentication pension solution, called EMpower Pensions. It offers secure, end-to-end pensions management, along with local and international pension payroll, from a unified, all-digital platform. EMpower Pensions aims to enhance the pensioner’s proof of life checking… Read More

April 15, 2021 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent study released by Juniper Research, titled Mobile Payment Authentication: Biometrics, Regulation & Market Forecasts 2021-2025, reveals that the number of users using software-powered facial recognition to conduct secure digital payments will surpass 1.4 billion internationally within the next 5 years (up from only… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Property finance marketplace LendInvest has published a blog post in which it’s requesting people to support the company in certain Buy-to-Let, Bridging and Development Awards. LendInvest notes that it’s a busy award season in property lending. Like most years LendInvest has been recognized for its… Read More

December 15, 2020 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nice Actimize, a NICE company (Nasdaq: NICE) business offering autonomous financial crime management solutions, has revealed that FACEPOINT, which introduced a biometric risk screening engine, has now joined the X-Sight Marketplace, bringing its facial recognition tech for Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and watch list risk screening to… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hungarian firm PeasyPay has launched a biometric digital payment system that uses facial and palm recognition to verify customers’ IDs and settle transactions. The Fintech company stated that it will be introducing its biometrics-enabled point-of-sale payments technology in Spain and the UK. Consumers can download… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 12:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s mPay has teamed up with iDenfy to use its biometric facial recognition software, (selfie) liveness detection, and ID verification tech, in order to take care of its Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance checks for processing mobile payments. The mPay app allows users to conduct… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore based DBS Bank Ltd, (SGX: D05), a multinational banking and financial services corporation with over $330 billion in assets, has teamed up with the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) to test out the SingPass face verification technology system. DBS Bank aims to attract… Read More

July 8, 2020 @ 7:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, a provider of global identity verification solutions, revealed on July 8, 2020 that it has developed  new document verification and facial recognition software. The new features will be added to EmbedID, a low-code developer tool that can work with the GlobalGateway API – which… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caixabank, a retail banking group in Spain, will be introducing facial recognition technology at 100 ATM locations across the country. The bank’s customers will be able to make withdrawals without having to enter their PIN codes. Facial recognition tech is also being used at the… Read More

May 18, 2020 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

C.C. Puan, the CEO at Packet One Networks (P1), a major wireless broadband provider focused on becoming an established mobile telecom by making access to the Internet a great experience for Malaysian residents, is planning to acquire a digital banking license. Puan remarked: “Getting the… Read More

April 19, 2020 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokyo-based Mizuho Bank, the integrated corporate and retail banking division of Mizuho Financial Group (TYO: 8411; NYSE: MFG), the third largest financial services company in Japan, has initiated proof-of-concept (PoC) trials and testing of digital IDs that are based on device location and facial recognition…. Read More

February 29, 2020 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over two thousand firms have reportedly either tested or used facial recognition software solutions created by Clearview AI. The list of firms notably includes San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase. BuzzFeed went through Clearview’s internal company documents and released its findings on February 28. The report… Read More

November 16, 2019 @ 12:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Nestle grocery store based in Spain has introduced a facial recognition payment system designed by CaixaBank and the institution’s Payment Innovation Hub alliance. Samsung, Global Payments, Visa, and Arval are members of the alliance. Nestle’s Face to Pay Market application can be downloaded from… Read More