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India's public sector banks to install 60K new ATMs
After a delay of several months, India's public sector banks have worked out a plan to deploy up to 60,000 additional ATMs across the country within the next two years. According to a report from the …
May 11, 2012
Is the palm reader in the ATM industry's future?
Americans as a group have for years rejected biometric ID for one reason or another: too slow, too unreliable, too complicated, too Big Brother. But it's just possible that the latest advances in …
May 8, 2012 - Suzanne Cluckey
'Something in the way she moves': Will dynamic biometrics be the next ID?
EU researchers are studying how an individual's walk, hand movements or pulse can be used as biometric identification. An article at sciencedaily.com said a project partly funded by the EU called …
April 24, 2012
Expert calls biometric adoption 'disappointing'
Despite the increasing accuracy and flexibility of biometrics, one analyst says its level of acceptance in the marketplace has been "disappointing," an article at zdnetasia.com said. Kris Ranganath …
April 23, 2012
What's making news in Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria said POS terminals and ATMs in Nigeria will be enabled for biometric identification by 2013, a report at allafrica.com said. CBN acting director of banking and payment …
March 29, 2012
Indian entitlements program to require one million micro-ATMs
A task force led by Unique Identification Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani has recommended a payment platform using micro-ATMs to disburse cash subsidies and entitlements under government …
March 5, 2012
CBN sets up ATM fraud prevention committee
The Central Bank of Nigeria has established an ATM fraud prevention committee to address risks associated with the use of alternative e-payment channels, said a news report at leadership.ng. Members …
February 13, 2012
Turkish bank rolls out biometric technology
Turkey's Isbank has installed approximately 3,400 Hitachi biometric finger vein scanners in ATMs and branches across the country, enabling customers to withdraw cash without a card, said a news story …
February 7, 2012
Voice biometrics could play a key role in security
ValidSoft, a global supplier of fraud prevention, authentication and transaction verification solutions and part of the Elephant Talk Group, has partnered with Opus Research to produce a report …
February 3, 2012
French consumers prefer fingerprints to NFC
A Wincor Nixdorf survey has found that French consumers would rather use their fingerprint than a mobile phone to identify themselves when making a payment, according to an article on nfcworld.com …
February 2, 2012

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