Biometrics gets a go at finance this week with news that major Asia Pac bank, the Bank of China, is to order fingerprint reader technology for 100 of its Chinese branches.

Bioscrypt, the company supplying the technology, are based in Canada, and have until now been supplying their fingerprint readers mainly to North American clients, including the Canadian airports authority.

This is their first big contract win in the Asia Pac region. Through a link with Chinese firm Sino Security, the company is aiming to change this.

The market in general is increasingly looking at biometrics, thinks Bioscrypt CEO Pierre Donaldson.

‘The demand for our products is definitely on the rise,’ he concludes.