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Bank Starts Biometrics for Mobile Security

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has now announced that it is going to become the first Canadian financial institution to use biometricsfor mobile security by way of fingerprint scanning for authorization. This announcement also stated that the mobile security will be possible through the addition of new features available through Android. Google first announced those new features at its developers conference. They will become available through the use of Android M, which presently remains in the form of a developer preview. That said, it is expected that this version of the software will be rolled out later on in 2015. It has been speculated that the Android M rollout will likely occur at the same time as the release of two new mobile devices under the Nexus brand.

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