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Encap Security’s Integration of Touch ID Helps Authenticate High-value Financial Transactions

EncapSecurity_logo_high-res.jpgThis post is part of our live coverage of FinovateEurope 2015.

The team from Encap Security is making its way to the stage. Encap develops technology that enables mobile authentication for financial service providers.
Encap Security is the first authentication company in the world to integrate Apple Touch ID. Encap is demonstrating how financial institutions can use Touch ID to provide access to authenticate high-value financial services transactions. Touch ID integration showcases how Encap technology can detect and use device capabilities to layer on new authentication factors as they come to market. Financial institutions can then take advantage of these factors as they see fit, to ensure they are delivering the highest level of usability and security.
Presenters: CEO Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen; Sales Director, Europe, John Burman
 
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Product launch: June 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Metrics: With locations in Oslo, and Palo Alto, California, Encap Security’s management team has an unrivaled stature in authentication and mobile financial services. CEO Thomas Bostrom Jorgensen and the Encap Security executive team of 15 employees together combine more than 60 years of experience across mobile financial services, identity management and mobile-app security. The total investment made in Encap Security is 4.8 million euros.
Twitter: @encapsecurity