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EDDITS and Touché have jointly developed a new solution that significantly simplifies in-store cryptocurrency transactions, allowing customers to make purchases and pay directly in Ether from their own Ethereum addresses in a fully decentralised way. Current…
A new age of identification technologies has arrived, giving physical stores an opportunity to level the playing field with online retailers. And identification technologies, such as biometrics in retail, can create deeper customer engagement more in line…
More than half of Australians prefer fingerprints, voice or retina scans in place of PINs when authorizing, according to research commissioned by Visa. The research also indicates that 29% of Australians are ready to use an internet-connected device, like a…
ABI Research predicts in a new report that fingerprint sensors in smartphones will surge to reach a 95% penetration rate of smartphone shipments by 2022. This will prompt new opportunities for biometric technologies, such as eye recognition, to be utilized as…
A new report by Juniper Research predicts the number of mobile payments authenticated by biometrics will climb to to nearly 2 billion this year, up from just over 600 million in 2016. The new research found that while Apple Pay had provided the catalyst for…
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