To reduce identity fraud, it is crucial for modern organizations to optimize customer acquisition processes both in-store and via online channels. Governments, banks and telecoms are finding that automated identity verification is a crucial step in this process. Learn how multi-channel solutions can enable secure face-to-face enrollments or allow customers to self-enroll with smartphones anytime and anywhere.

A new Visa concept involves putting a payment sticker on a consumer’s hand to authenticate payments and other tasks, such as those conducted on the Internet of Things. Questions remain about identity controls, but the idea represents the latest step forward for payment authentication that does not involve passwords.

Those fliers can quickly go through airport security lines without having to remove shoes and other items as part of TSA PreCheck. A mobile enrollment marketing push, new advertising and even Groupons all helped increase the popularity of the traveler authentication program.

Technology designed to make it possible for travelers to reach airport gates without producing boarding and ID documentation earns a thumbs-up from U.S. patent officials. The news comes as CLEAR allocates fresh capital to expansion efforts and improving its biometric products.

The SAFE Sports and Events Access Manager from HID, which was deployed at the 2016 Olympics, aims to reduce the threat from terrorists, thieves and vandals upping stadium security at public events. The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security says the secure identity technology can handle the unique rigors of sports environments.

A new white paper from the Secure Identity Alliance points to a future where borders are increasingly protected by mobile technology and biometric authentication. Such technology could help border officials better man smaller posts, deal with traveler rushes and weed out criminals trying to cross into countries.

Credentials, such as usernames and passwords, are becoming high-risk forms of authentication with each major corporation credential spill and technological advancement. As credential stuffing becomes rampant, are biometric identifiers the answer to the seemingly endless question of personal security in our digital age?

A new biometric ATM from Diebold and Samsung seeks to increase the security and speed of cash-machine transactions by using mobile apps and facial recognition – mathematical representations of consumers’ faces. The technology represents the latest effort to widen the popularity of biometric payments.