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Trustech, the leading event in the secure transactions industry, focuses on payment and ID among a few other themes. Instant Payment, one on the major topics of the time, was the subject of one of the conferences.

Instant Payments, are defined by the European Central B...

Trustech, the leading event in the secure transactions industry, is the opportunity for all of us to meet up and exchange about the evolutions of technologies and our environment. The first conference titled “Identity Schemes in Europe” revolved around the interweaving...

Softbank, which owns Yahoo! Japan,  is merging this activity with the Japanese messaging app Line in a 50/50 deal. The new entity, called Z Holdings, will have more than 100 million users in Japan across financial services, eCommerce and more. Line instant messenger cl...

Already for a few years, many of us are using one-to-one facial recognition on our handsets: many smartphones can now be unlocked by just looking at them, making the phone attempting to match the candidate face with the one that had been previously enrolled.

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Many of the players in the mobile payment sector, especially on the financial institution side, use to report difficulties in dealing with Apple when they implemented Apple Pay, citing arrogance, lack of transparence and lack of flexibility among their grievances along...

In a couple days emerged the acquisition of Fitbit by Google and the scandal about Google access to health data of millions of Americans.  This is probably the best example on how data coming from official health sources such as hospitals and physicians and data genera...

The Chinese payment industry has been developing a technology of its own to complete payments for a few years: QR-codes. They have been extremely successful: Alipay runs US$ 519 billion (EUR 471 billion) worth of payments and claims over 600 million monthly active user...

PEPSI, an acronym that means Pan European Payment System Initiative is the latest attempt in building a pan European payment system. The announced goal is to develop a standard based on instant payment capable of managing all dematerialized forms of payment, either by...

Apple Pay just passed its fifth anniversary. One may remember Apple beginnings in the world of payment were under fire from critics of all kinds as the company faced at the same time the complexity of signing partners in an established payment environment and the diffi...

Already for a few years, quantum computing has been announced as the next revolution that would threaten cryptography as we know it. While a classical computer, based on electronics and Turing’s machine architecture makes computations on binary data (bits worth 0 or 1)...