Fingerprint Biometrics and the Return of Travel: This Week’s News Roundup

This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ prime tales encompasses a variety of subjects and geographies, however fingerprint biometrics and worldwide journey stand out as the 2 central themes.

In Europe, Norway-based IDEX Biometrics obtained some consideration this week with its name for monetary companies suppliers to embrace biometric fee playing cards of their efforts to adjust to the European Union’s PSD2 rules for Robust Buyer Authentication. Fingerprint-scanning playing cards can allow corporations to satisfy the SCA requirement for two-factor authentication when a payer initiates a transaction:

IDEX Pushes Biometric Cards for PSD2 Compliance

Germany’s DERMALOG additionally had some fingerprint-related information this week due to a biometric expertise competitors run in Italy. DERMALOG’s liveness detection expertise enabled it to beat rivals within the College of Cagliari’s newest LivDet competitors, which assesses software program designed to withstand presentation assaults:

DERMALOG Wins Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition

Shifting on to the journey sector, Innovatrics attracted some consideration with its information {that a} new airport in Honduras shall be deploying its SmartFace facial recognition expertise. Whereas airport deployments of facial recognition expertise have been on the rise lately, the expertise is mostly used for border management and passenger processing, whereas Innovatrics’ tech will notably be used for venue safety on the Palmerola airport:

Innovatrics Provides Facial Recognition Tech for Honduras Airport

FindBiometrics readers additionally took to the seas this week by way of information regarding a partnership between Royal Caribbean Group and Sensible Engines. The cruise line operator has opted to make use of Sensible Engines’ doc scanning expertise to streamline the boarding and departure course of:

Smart Engines Provides Screening Services for Royal Caribbean

And eventually, readers confirmed sustained curiosity this week in a dialogue about identification verification extra broadly. Ping Id Head of Private Id Armin Ebrahimi spoke with FindBiometrics Editor in Chief Peter Counter in a fireplace chat that touched on digital onboarding, AML and KYC compliance, and adapting safety to danger. The chat is now obtainable on-demand:

WATCH NOW: The Future of Identity Verification

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Keep tuned to FindBiometrics for the newest information from the thrilling world of biometrics. You can even go to our sibling web site Mobile ID World to learn the newest about digital identification.

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October 16, 2021 – by Alex Perala