Biometric

MasterCard Set to Conduct 16 Week Trial of Biometric Bank Card in Italy

Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo is due to begin a four-month trial of a Mastercard banking card containing a biometric fingerprint…

Online biometric payments brought to Europe by Mastercard

In early 2018 Mastercard is set to launch a new capability via which European shoppers will be able to use…

Biometric history: Cave painting, criminal profiling and iris scanning

Today we do not only inhabit the world we wake up in, our physical lives are mirrored by a separate…

TSB eye up biometrics with new iris scanning security

The UK retail bank TSB Bank is set to be the first European bank to issue biometric security in the…

HSBC biometric security tricked by BBC

A voice ID authentication biometric security measure put in place by HSBC has been tricked by twins, one of whom…

Will biometric scanning soon revolutionise Britain’s railways?

Biometric scanning and other innovative technology such as smart trains could soon be making its way onto Britain’s railway. The…

Lloyds becomes latest bank to deploy selfie biometrics

Lloyds Banking Group is following in the footsteps of HSBC and MasterCard by launching biometric  'selfie' technology to Bank of…

Banks win UK consumer trust as biometric security gains a competitive edge

The British public is much more trusting of banks than government agencies when it comes to the protection of biometric…