"Unlike other biometrics companies that target military and commercial markets, Imprivata zeroed in on enterprises at the outset. Its open architecture software gives enterprises a unifying authentication system that can function across different back-end applications. Its product, soon to start a pilot project with Boston's State Street Bank, can function with various authentication methods used within an enterprise, including biometrics, smart cards, encrypted cards or secure tokens, said Patrick Morley, who recently joined as president and CEO."

Presentations for most of the sessions at last week's Digital Money Forum in London are now available online.

ePSO Final Conference on Consumer Online Payments: Trends & Challenges for Europe", held in Brussels in February, now has all of its presentations online.

Pro-Active has an add-on smart card reader which works with Handspring Visor PDA's.

This morning's American Banker reports on BankOne CEO Jamie Dimon's speech to the NACHA Payments 2002 Conference yesterday. He was apparently quite outspoken about outsourcing just not working for BankOne:

„Frankly it didn‚t work,‰ he said. „Bank One is taking back the management of its databases. We‚re taking back all our own programming. Our critical systems will be managed, produced, and maintained by Bank One folks and not by anybody else. We want to be in control of our own destiny.‰