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NEWS Ripple welcomes BTMU aboard
joined Ripple’s Global Payments Steering Group (GPSG). It’s the first Japanese bank to sign up and will join Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Santander, Standard Chartered, Westpac Banking Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada and CIBC in overseeing the maintenance and enhancement of payment transaction rules and formalised standards for commercial use of Ripple.
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“We welcome MUFG, one of the largest and most advanced banks in the world, to the growing number of Ripple customers moving actual money across borders, instantly,”
he Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has
says Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple’s CEO. “While many others continue to play in the sandbox, we’re thrilled MUFG has joined us in our mission to revolutionize payments globally.”
Scott Thompson ANZ enlists Nuance for biometrics roll-out
introduce voice biometrics on mobile devices, allowing higher value transactions. From the middle of this year, customers transferring more than $1,000 through ANZ’s mobile apps will be able to use their voice to automatically authorise payments. Previously they needed to use internet banking or visit a branch to complete transactions.
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The FI has been working with Nuance to implement the technology. A pilot will begin with ANZ staff and select customers in May using the Grow by ANZ mobile app. The service will then be rolled out to goMoney and other digital services.
Managing Director Customer Experience and Digital NZ is set to be the first Australian bank to
Channels, Peter Dalton, comments: “A person’s voice has five to ten times as many security points than other methods such as fingerprints so we know this will improve security and be welcomed by our customers. The technology is now so advanced that it can tell the difference between identical twins or even a voice recording. We also know that people are becoming more comfortable with using their voice to do basic commands on their devices, so we see this is a natural extension of current technology and we are expecting this to be a popular enhancement of our mobile apps.”
Scott Thompson
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