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March 02, 2015
MasterCard Study: Consumer Sentiment On Payments Evolves From “Why Mobile?”...

MasterCard is on a roll with exciting announcements revealed at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Today, the company announced its findings from the third annual Mobile Payments Study. The study,...


February 27, 2015
Sekur Me Taps Fingerprint Tech For M-Payment App

Now that the iPhone’s Touch ID fingerprint recognition has given a big boost to mobile biometric authentication, there’s just one problem for mCommerce merchants: Apple is Apple, Android is Android,...


February 26, 2015
Inside MasterCard’s Masters Of Code Global Hackathons: Round 1

Earlier this month, MasterCard kicked off its first-ever Masters of Code competition in Sydney, Australia. The 10-city event will traverse the globe, pitting developers, designers and entrepreneurs in friendly competition,...


February 24, 2015
Mobile Pay Tech Lets Users Say To Pay

Biometric authentication technology company NXT-ID wants to bring consumers who want to pay with their phone a new, and potentially easier method to say how they want to pay: by using...


February 23, 2015
How MasterCard Is Taking Biometrics To The Masses

It’s been a little over a week since The White House Cybersecurity Summit, during which U.S. President Barack Obama called upon tech and financial companies to band together to protect...


February 23, 2015
Apple’s New Biometrics TouchID Patent

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published Thursday (Feb. 19) new patent applications filed by Apple that hint at the technology conglomerate’s latest focuses. Reports say the patents include a...


February 17, 2015
Microsoft’s Push Toward Biometrics Security

Microsoft has been building better alternatives to passwords into its forthcoming version of Windows, including support for two-factor authentication and biometrics. Now the company is joining forces with the Fast...


February 16, 2015
Obama: Cybersecurity Is Shared Responsibility

Cyberspace has become today’s “Wild West” and as the country’s leader, President Barack Obama has positioned himself as sheriff. That’s how the Associated Press summed up the theme of the...


Digital Identity: Ditching Passwords Could Unlock A $59 Billion Biometrics Market
Ditching Passwords Could Unlock a $59 Billion Biometrics Market The findings come from this month’s Digital Identity Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Prove collaboration, which examined how advanced verification tech is not only boosting security but also giving 58% of consumers what they want — faster and more convenient biometric authentication.
Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile

Biometric authentication, once just a sci-fi trope, has become so common that most consumers who shopped online used biometrics to validate their purchase. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 3,278 U.S. consumers explores why so many users like biometrics — and what it will take to win over the half who are holdouts. Read more in “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile,” a collaboration with AWS.