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6 days ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

Biometrics are allowing people to prove who they are, speeding journeys through airports, and enabling anonymous online proof of age, but market forces and risks compel providers to evolve or get left behind, as seen in the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update. DNP and Laxton are combining to scale their portfolio and operations, while regulatory compliance, pilots and testing are all part of the cost of doing business.

1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

Onboarding and compliance orchestration engine provider Zenoo has formed a pair of partnerships to give its customers a broader range of identity verification options. A strategic partnership with identity acceptance network Trinsic is intended to improve the privacy, speed and simplicity with which organizations verify their users across borders, and an integration of Sumsub’s ID verification gives financial institutions advanced tools for streamlined onboarding with no coding.

1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

Larger face portrait to ease manual identity verification Categories Biometrics News | Civil / National ID | Government Services The Netherlands will introduce new identity documents for asylum seekers Idemia Smart Identity, compliant with the ICAO specification for vertical IDs, in the second half of this year. The Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) announced the new asylum seeker IDs with a large portrait image size this week to facilitate easier manual identity...

1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

Clear has signed up T-Mobile as the first publicly-announced customer of its digital identity verification platform with biometric multi-factor authentication (MFA) for enterprises since it rebranded as CLEAR1. CLEAR1 was introduced as the company’s identity platform for businesses in April, giving a new name to existing capabilities. “Identity is the foundation of trust in every organization,” says Jon Schlegel, chief security officer at Clear.

1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Ayang Macdonald

A Dark Economy Survey carried out by behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch has highlighted the disturbing trend of how AI is aiding financial fraud sophistication, but the company’s CEO Gadi Mazor contends that changing the situation will require “continued innovation.”The publication titled “The Dark Economy Survey: Insights into the invisible: Perspectives on evolving fraud and AML challenges,” explores the depth and dangers of financial fraud and their devastating effects on the global economy.