Gemalto and Raiffeisen, an Austrian banking group, announced the introduction of a Bio Sourced payment card for its Austrian cardholders. Visa Europe enabled Gemalto to use the Bio Sourced card material for Visa branded EMV card programs. These cards, from Gemalto’s Clarista range of payment solutions, will offer prepaid cards to end users as part […]

Microsoft Corp. announced the acquisition of PhoneFactor Inc., a provider of multifactor authentication solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2001, PhoneFactor is used by organizations to help secure logins and transactions. By leveraging a device nearly every user already has — a phone — PhoneFactor enables deployment of multifactor authentication across […]

InAuth, a mobile security software provider, has released its Voice Biometrics Authentication Module. Geared to the mobile banking sector, this software provides an opt-in way to use a voice fingerprint to secure a mobile financial transaction. The voice fingerprinting on the software can dynamically identify users without adding processes onto the user experience. It quickly […]

German start-up payleven is set to introduce a chip and PIN solution for smart phone and tablet payments. With payleven’s new solution, merchants can accept credit and debit cards from all major providers in accordance with the technical and security standards required for a fully-functional mobile point of sale. The chip and PIN solution employs […]

Dates: October 22-25, 2012 Location: Milan, Italy Venue: Milano Congressi URL: Click here Description: For the past four years, Mobile Money Summit has been the premier event for the leaders and players in the mobile and financial industries. This annual event is now being expanded to showcase NFC and its many applications. In 2012 and […]

Auraya Systems releases its Armorvox system, which integrates both voice biometrics and voice recognition in a single system. ITWire.com reports that previous versions of the Armorvox system used voice biometrics alone and have seen use in customer identification at the St. George call center as well as in New Zealand’s tax office. The inclusion of […]

Oberthur Technologies and Zvetco Biometrics are collaborating on a biometric authentication device designed for government and company computing environments. The companies will combine the Oberthur ID-One PIV smart card with Zvetco Biometrics Verifi fingerprint readers. The smart card complies with HSPD-12 and is FIPS-201 compliant for physical and logical access control. Its applications include authentication, […]