Starbucks is a bellwether for mobile payments in the U.S. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com

Starbucks is rolling out an updated iPhone app today that will finally enable Apple Pay. The Seattle coffee chain was one of the first retailers to say it Source: http://www.geekwire.com

Idesco announced its strategic partnership with FST Biometrics, a provider of biometric access control solutions. Source: http://www.asmag.com

With an array of international awards to its name for its innovative privacy technologies in 2014, Sedicii will launch its UNITY suite of authentication solutions at Finovate London on February 10th. Source: http://www.finextra.com

Digital Insight, a provider of online and mobile solutions to the financial services industry (and an NCR company), has announced an agreement with biometrics d Source: mobileidworld.com

Touchless Biometric Systems AG has installed a biometric time and attendance system for over 3,000 employees at Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

Exchange-traded funds designed to mute market volatility are seeing a big jump in assets Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

Over the past few years, some investors have become frustrated with the underperformance of the emerging markets (EM)—especially when compared to the U.S. m Source: http://www.etftrends.com

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South Korea, China and the Gulf Nations lead our annual ranking of developing markets — amid a rout that has hit two of the BRIC countries. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com