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Biometrics – why the magic is in the software
By Jonas Nilsson
May 18, 2020
Before the Ink is Dry: Correcting Biometric Spoofing Myths
Biometric authentication is highly robust, and the latest solutions offer considerably greater security than their authentication predecessors: PINs and passwords. But as biometrics moves into new areas such as payments and access control , privacy and security concerns are rising. Biometrics has long been subject to scrutiny, with many…
View postApril 30, 2020
Working from Wherever: 4 Ways Biometrics are Securing Working Life
In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has transformed day-to-day life. As remote working becomes a large-scale necessity, millions of employees around the world have swapped their daily chats at the coffee machine for virtual meetings in pajamas. Although the immediate future remains unclear, these more flexible ways of working will no…
View postApril 15, 2020
Contactless comes of age: How biometrics is taking cards to the next level
Contactless payments are high on the global payments agenda. Consumers’ intent to use contactless more was demonstrated by our research studies both from 2017 and 2020. Now, in the current pandemic the WHO encouraging contactless payments where possible and countries around the world raising contactless limits, consumer behaviors are changing…
View postApril 6, 2020
In Consumer Biometrics We Trust: Authentication For the Data Privacy Age
Data privacy is high on the global agenda. In the wake of data protection policies such as Europe’s GDPR, ensuring the integrity of personal data is an increasingly pertinent subject. This is a governmental and corporate policy reflection of the fact that our lives are moving increasingly online and, with it, our personal data is facing new and…
View postMarch 30, 2020
Dispelling biometric myths and misconceptions
Gangsters cutting off enemies’ fingers to access secret locations and spies lifting fingerprints from martini glasses - the imagination of the entertainment world has been running wild ever since biometrics entered the scene. Couple that with the limitations of some early biometric solutions from fifteen years ago, still anchored in the minds…
View postMarch 12, 2020
Testing, testing…Milestones on biometric payment cards’ path to mass market
It’s no secret the payments world is immensely complex. But the extent of the testing and certification behind the card in your wallet would likely surprise many. The processes and standards in place to ensure our payment cards are robust, secure and work in harmony with the rest of the ecosystem are given little spotlight, but they’re…
View postJanuary 15, 2020
Finger on the Pulse! Waving goodbye to a big year for biometrics
After years of predictions and goals set for “2020”, it feels quite surreal to have finally welcomed in the year that once felt so futuristic. And what a pivotal decade the “teens” have been for the world of biometrics! But before we share our 2 cents on the predictions for the year, we shouldn’t overlook the busy and successful end to 2019 the…
View postJanuary 9, 2020
Biometric benefits – driving mobile trends
Digitalization leaves nothing untouched, especially security. As threats evolve, and privacy and security become a primary concern for consumers and service providers, stronger authentication is becoming part of our everyday lives. As we seek the death of insecure and cumbersome PINs and passwords, our smartphones are coming to the forefront…
View postDecember 17, 2019
Biometric Payment Cards - Where Are We Now?
In 2018, we wrote: “ Biometric smart cards are emerging as the next innovation in payment cards.” Jump forward a year and NatWest called biometric payment cards “the biggest development in card technology in recent years” when announcing its pilot of the technology. It is staggering how far the market has come in only one year as banks,…
View postNovember 26, 2019
Access all areas - Using biometrics to make it genius
We all have several things to open, access and unlock, multiple times daily. Buildings, devices, padlocks, vehicles, servers – the list goes on. Current processes, however, can take up a lot of time and offer poor user experiences as well as being less secure. Afterall, who hasn’t lost or lent out their keys, or forgotten a PIN number, and had…
View postOctober 16, 2019
Finger on the pulse! The Countdown to 2020 has Begun
With 2020 in sight, now is the perfect time to pause and reflect on the past three months and see how the world of biometrics has evolved since our last update. With everything from high profile announcements to some news you may not have heard, Q3 2019 has been fascinating. Here’s our run-down of the big biometrics news stories. Access all…
View postOctober 7, 2019
Are biometrics pointing to opportunities for banks?
Innovation comes in many forms. It makes the world around us look better, work faster and be more useful for companies, consumers and communities. Biometric technology has been around now for some time, but recent technological developments are driving significant adoption across new use cases, especially in banking & payments. We…
View postSeptember 17, 2019
Contactless gets a makeover in the UK
The deadline hanging over Europe is finally here. No, not Brexit, but PSD2’s September 14 mandate for the implementation of SCA (or, to those unfamiliar, Strong Customer Authentication). The European law and its implementation by banks has stirred a lot of discussion across the continent – especially in the UK. Already leaders in the open…
View postSeptember 10, 2019
Biometric payments – bank priorities vs consumer perceptions
When it comes to new payments technologies, it’s often difficult to know what consumers are thinking, and banks have a lot on their plates. When introducing new solutions and services, aligning a bank’s transformation strategy with the desires of consumers is an interesting chart to plot. Following our consumer research, we recently set out to…
View postJuly 9, 2019
Fingerprint On The Pulse: Biometrics On The Move In More Places Than One
We may be halfway through 2019, but as the year hurtles onwards, it’s important to pause and reflect on the latest and greatest news from Q2. With milestones surpassed – and fading into the distance – coupled with the ongoing adoption of biometrics to bring trust to new use cases, Q2 has contributed to a very successful first half of the year.…
View postJune 5, 2019
The Human Touch: Biometrics Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
For thousands of years, humanity has used fingers to express itself. Crossing one’s index and middle fingers in the West means good luck, India’s intricate hand mudras indicate everything from no fear to reverence, and a thumb down signalled bad news for Rome’s gladiators. Today, however, we’re doing even more with our fingers. From…
View postMay 23, 2019
Biometric payments – forget sensor size, focus on performance
Biometric authentication has come a long way in recent years. Launched in the first Android smartphone almost five years ago, fingerprint touch sensors have quickly overtaken PIN as consumers’ preferred authentication method. Now, demand for the same level of security and seamless UX is growing across other payments form factors like smartcards…
View postMay 17, 2019
Keep Calm and Fintech on: How the UK is leading the financial services revolution
The UK is at the forefront of the financial services revolution. With one of the world’s highest contactless card adoption rates, a thriving challenger bank community and successful open banking initiatives, it’s no surprise the nation’s fintech industry generates around £20 billion in annual returns. Championing a consumer-centric approach to…
View postApril 17, 2019
Finger on the pulse! 2019’s big biometric news so far…
It’s already Q2! It has been a momentous few months for biometrics, so it’s not surprising the year is passing so quickly. New products launched, new milestones reached, and new market trials initiated. Biometrics is expanding and advancing rapidly – both in its existing markets and applications, and in new ones. Not sure what you’ve missed?…
View postMarch 21, 2019
The future of cards, contactless and biometrics in payments
It's an interesting time for the humble payment card. Card payments have steadily risen in the last two decades, but innovation of the card has slowed since the launch of contactless over ten years ago. Until, that is, the recent entrance of the biometric payment card. But what’s the value in updating the card further? Contactless cards have…
View postFebruary 19, 2019
Biometrics – why the magic is in the software
When thinking of ‘biometric authentication’, what image comes into your mind? For most of you it will be a touch of a fingerprint sensor or a scan of your iris. Because of the way we, as humans, interact with the world around us, it is very easy to focus in on just the physical, the hardware, the biometric sensor. But when we peek behind the…
View postFebruary 13, 2019
Biometric smartcards: Ready to rock & enroll?
Last year saw biometric payment card trials take off across the globe. With more in the pipeline and the first wave of user feedback already received, it’s clear the technology’s reached a turning point. The next step to getting these cards to consumers? Getting their fingerprints registered onto the cards. A lot of questions have centered…
View postJanuary 24, 2019
France & Fintech: are the smart card innovators still leading the way?
France has long been the pioneer of smart card technology: from the patenting of the first microchip, to the pivotal 1976 launch of ‘ la carte à puce ’ – the smart card. Consequently, French banks were the first to launch the chip-based card in 1988 and, by 1993, all bank cards issued in the country were chip-based - four years ahead of the…
View postDecember 19, 2018
Balancing security & convenience for payment – how do our biometric identifiers measure up?
Strong customer authentication using biometrics is now part of the day-to-day. From ‘selfie’ authentication to voice recognition, fingerprint through to iris, our bodies have a range of unique ‘modalities’ that can be measured, each with benefits and drawbacks as authentication methods. In the age of open banking and rising demands for more…
View postNovember 30, 2018
Why China needs more than mobile payments
The smartphone sits at the heart of modern China. With the success of AliPay and WeChatPay – both boasting hundreds of millions of users in China alone compared to Apple Pay’s total 127 million users – paying with mobile is commonplace. In fact, card is quite the novelty. Despite the love of mobile, its important the Chinese market isn’t…
View postNovember 23, 2018
From talk to trial: What is a biometric smartcard?
2018 has seen the once futuristic biometric smartcard go from talk to trial. From the U.S.A. to France, Lebanon to Japan, momentum is gathering as the benefits of fingerprint sensors look set to revolutionize contactless payments worldwide. But in a sea of trial updates and product launches, it can be difficult to get to grips with what…
View postNovember 6, 2018
Visions become realities: Money 20/20 USA and the return to the present
Visions become realities: Money 20/20 USA and the return to the present As a Money 20/20 series regular, arriving at this year’s show in the ever-buzzing Las Vegas, I prepared myself for four days packed with futuristic visions and startling concepts for how we might be paying in fifty years’ time. Bizarrely refreshingly, however, was the…
View postOctober 25, 2018
The women shaping payments in 2030
Last week, I was delighted to sit on a panel session at this year’s European Women Payments Network in Amsterdam. The annual conference brought together more than 250 women for two days of interactive panels, networking and plenary sessions. Its aim? To promote diversity in payments and Fintech, debate the hot topics, and celebrate the women…
View postOctober 17, 2018
Fingerprint on the pulse: The biometric payment news you need to know
It’s quite hard to believe that we’re already entering Q4. For the biometrics industry, it’s been a unique and exciting year – one marked largely by its increasing convergence with the world of payments. For payments and biometric lovers alike, it can be hard to keep pace with the rate of innovation. From cards to crypto, market trials to…
View postAugust 17, 2018
Fingerprints Depicts a Three-pronged Development Strategy at 2018 MWC Shanghai
In the recently concluded 2018 Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Fingerprints made a splash by exhibiting a full array of its state-of-art biometrics solutions. Such an elaborative showcase not only reflects the company’s ambition of becoming a complete player in the industry, but also its strategic priorities in three market segments. …
View postJune 13, 2018
The Financial Services Community just got serious about identity
I find myself sitting in Schiphol Airport, trying to switch off. But I can’t. As with everyone that went to Money 20/20 Europe, I’m exhausted. But I leave the show excited by the progress the payments community has made in the last year, my head still buzzing with the evolution in the story we’ve seen on topics such as identity, privacy and…
View postMay 31, 2018
The biometric phases – the past, the present, the future
Seven years ago, back in 2011, the first fingerprint sensor for smartphones was launched, when we at Fingerprints introduced our small swipe sensor for the mobile market. Some years later the technology evolved to capacitive touch sensors , and became available on both the Android and Apple platforms. Since then, biometrics has become an…
View postMay 24, 2018
Fraud Wars: How can biometrics help win the card fraud battle?
Fighting fraudsters is a complex and ever-evolving challenge. As consumers change the way they pay, fraudsters change the way they steal. For banks to keep up, these new battles require new tactics to minimize losses and reassure consumers. The rapid adoption of contactless payment cards has given rise to one such ‘new battle’, creating a new…
View postMay 8, 2018
Combating our love-hate relationship with contactless payments
Contactless payments’ popularity is undeniable. Of the 3.5 billion payment cards produced annually, about half are now contactless. With new figures highlighting rapid adoption across Europe, contactless cards and payments have even been dubbed the continent’s ‘new normal’ way to pay and continued growth seems inevitable. This is also true in…
View postMarch 23, 2018
Takeaways from the first Money20/20 Asia
A summary from Singapore: Takeaways from the first Money 20/20 Asia As something of a Money 20/20 series veteran, having attended the Europe and Vegas editions several times, it was with great curiosity and even greater expectations that I set off to the first Asian event. Held in Singapore, the event had many of the same faces – the…
View postMarch 16, 2018
MWC Barcelona 2018
MWC Barcelona 2018 – trends and reflections A lot has been said and written already on this year’s major industry event, MWC in Barcelona, our main takeout on trends discussed and displayed are summarized in the picture below. With more than 100,000 visitors from over 200 countries, this has become an event reaching far beyond the mobile and…
View postFebruary 8, 2018
Multi Convenience!
Multimodalities - Multi Convenience! Those days I used my phone for just calling, are long gone. My smartphone plays a natural part my life, and probably in your life too. I still use it for calling and texting, but also to keep up on social media, taking and sharing photos, online shopping and even paying my bills. Why? Because it is…
View postJanuary 30, 2018
Biometric payment cards - where are we now?
Biometric smart cards are emerging as the next innovation in payment cards. According to ABI Research the payment card is here to stay and fingerprint authentication within the card is the next natural evolution to retain convenience while increasing security. So, let’s take a look at the potential and status of the technology to understand why…
View postDecember 18, 2017
Highlights and insights from Trustech
On the 28 th –30 th of November, the Fingerprints smart card crew went to Trustech in Cannes, the largest event in the world for smart cards, payments, and IDs, with over 13,000 visitors from 125 countries. We spoke on panels, met with customers and partners, and checked out the latest developments and trends. Some snapshots have been shared on…
View postNovember 16, 2017
Q&A session with iris expert Salil Prabhakar
Here at Fingerprints™, we get many questions about our touchless solutions. What is the big buzz about and how does it work? We sat down with Salil Prabhakar, Director of Iris Development at Fingerprints, to have a chat and sort out some of the questions. Hello there, Salil Prabhakar. There’s a lot of buzz out there about the new touchless…
View postNovember 1, 2017
Contactless card is the new king
We have asked 4 000 online consumers in China, USA, UK and India about their payment methods. The study shows that contactless payment cards have a high awareness among consumers, but barriers need to be removed if this payment method wants to increase usage and market penetration. Here biometrics can help, as it is the only way to offer…
View postOctober 6, 2017
Consumers agree, dual biometrics is the future in mobile
In our global market research it became clear that there is high awareness and worries among consumers when it comes to fraud and identity theft. The majority think biometrics as THE way to increase security without making an impact of the usability, and particularly if you have several biometrics to choose from. But which biometric is…
View postSeptember 20, 2017
Fingerprint is now the main id method on mobile as consumers turn their back to pins & passwords
We wanted to further understand how consumers perceive biometrics. Which methods are being used, for what, and why. To find out, we asked thousands of consumers around the world. The picture is the same across the countries, Fingerprint is the largest biometric technology today. When you have access to it on your mobile that’s what you use!…
View postSeptember 13, 2017
Biometric multimodality is the way to go
Fingerprints’ CTO Pontus Jägemalm, elaborates on how multimodality increases security.
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