Plaid face and behavioral biometrics support instant authenticated online payments

Plaid and Astra, which provides infrastructure for fast payments, have extended their partnership to offer a unified software package to embed secure instant transfers into fintech products, according to a company announcement.

The integration gives developers access to Plaid’s Identity Verification product, which includes an anti-fraud engine with checks against authoritative data sources, ID document authentication, selfie biometrics and liveness detection, and risk assessment. The software provides behavioral biometrics, device, network and synthetic identity risk signals.

The biometric software verifies …

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