24 sept. 2020
5G, the snake biting its tail
The European Commission (EC) recently issued a statement pressing for a better collaboration among member states to accelerate 5G...
17 sept. 2020
UK ID project: Nessie is back!
We all know Anglo-Saxon countries are reluctant to national ID programs: ID cards are unheard of in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and...
8 juil. 2020
EPI, the latest UFO
Every so often, we witness an announcement from major European financial institutions for the latest UFO: Unidentified Financial Object....
3 juil. 2020
Biometric cards: mainstream or not?
BNP Paribas, a major French financial institution, has just announced its plans to distribute biometric payment cards that include a...
25 juin 2020
WhatsApp payments launched in Brazil for only 7 days!
Peer to peer (P2P) payment has attracted many players over the years since it was identified as representing a large number of...
17 juin 2020
Facial recognition under scrutiny
Never in history has a technology been abandoned because it was too dangerous or too lethal: chemical warfare, nuclear bombs and...
10 juin 2020
Samsung keeps up with the card trend
A while after Apple announced its Apple Card, Google its Google Card and Huawei its Huawei Card, Samsung is now coming up with its...
3 juin 2020
Match your voice!
Biometrics authentication are increasingly present in our lives. While biometrics were at first essentially dedicated to access control,...
27 mai 2020
Learn from others!
There has been two major steps in my life that made me change, or to be more explicit, that brought some theoretical background to fuel...
20 mai 2020
Covid-19 affects both FinTech and classical banks, but in different ways
While everyone agrees the ongoing health crisis brings a disruption in regular operations of business, one may wonder whether theses...