Britain's Nationwide building society is working on a banking app that uses behavioural biometrics for continuous authentication.The pilot app being used as a way of authenticating payments made within an app as an extra layer of security, but the bank hasn't ruled it out as a logging in method.The prototype is being developed by Nationwide's “innovation team” in partnership with technology companies BehavioSec and Unisys.James Smith, head of innovation at Nationwide Building Society, said in a statement: “Behavioural biometrics monitor the patterns and habits that are unique to each mobile banking user – everyone holds and interacts with their mobile device in a different way.”The prototype provides an exciting insight into what the future may hold, as we investigate new ways to enhance security.”The iniative comes as Nationwide releases new research which shows that the average Brit now has to remember six different passwords, while a quarter have over 10 passwords memorised.In the same survey, almost 60% of those surveyed thought that retina scanners would be built-in to devices within 10 years, and almost 30% suggesting that a whole face scanner will be the way to unlock the mobile phones of the future.

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