Barclays unveils blood-reading authentication technology for corporate banking clients

Danny Palmer
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'It's very, very simple, yet it's very, very secure,' bank says of vein authentication technology

Barclays has revealed what it says is the future of fraud prevention in corporate banking with the Barclays Biometric Reader, a Hitachi-developed tool that uses "vein authentication technology" to ...

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