German biometrics company BioID has collaborated with Austria's A-Trust to integrate the former's face recognition solution into the latter's Handy-Signatur app.In a statement, the companies said the solution addresses the growing need for secure transactions and signatures, particularly given the EU eIDAS regulation that went into effect on July 1.The declared goal of the EU regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market – in short eIDAS – is to simplify electronic transactions across the EU."Through the combination of Handy-Signatur and biometric face recognition, the physical user is perfectly linked to a mobile device, addressing emerging online applications for business and industry", said the press release.Ho Chang, BioID CEO, sees applications in transaction authorisation (e.g. eSigning, online payments), and IAM, especially for e-commerce, banking and insurance, and even in physical access control."For us, the partnership with A-Trust was an obvious choice, because they operate at the highest levels of security. BioID requires the strictest security standards, and naturally we also require this of our partners. A-Trust has the most secure technology available on the European market and has decades of experience in the implementation of the Handy-Signatur in corporate and government segments. This wealth of experience helps to further strengthen our position in the German-speaking market," Chang elaboratedA-Trust CEO Michael Butz added: "We are pleased with the strategic cooperation with BioID, in particular because we both share a common goal: security and usability must be equally valued. With a biometric approach we are responding to the needs of our users, who want to navigate the web with minimum barriers and maximum security."
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