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Global Rainmakers and Tech Imagine bring biometric banking to Latin America

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Global Rainmakers (GRI) has partnered with Tech Imagine, a document scanner technology company, to provide iris-based biometric solutions to Tech Imagine’s banking industry customers in Latin America and the Caribbean. The hope for Tech Imagine is to establish pilot programs utilizing GRI’s iris recognition technology at banks that are currently using Tech Imagine technology such as their check scanners.

Tech Imagine’s employees will be trained by GRI on the use, support, installation, integration and maintenance of their iris systems so that Tech Imagine can directly handle issues with its clients using the technology. [end] 

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