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Social and banking

Consult Hyperion sponsored the Financial Sector Technology magazine dinner for this month. The dinner, which was chaired by Paul Smee from the Payments Council, was an opportunity to share a range of views about the world of payments and exchange ideas about trends in the European payments market.

Patently obvious that biometrics will be important

Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion will be talking about the use of biometrics to deal with the practical issues around personal data at the European Patent Forum 2009 in Prague from 28th-30th April 2009. He will presenting in the session on the topic "Biometrics: Privacy and Identity Theft" on the second day of the conference, on 29 April.

First fellowship round table next week

David Birch of Consult Hyperion will be chairing the first of the Visa Europe round tables on Innovation in Payments at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation in London next week.

Meg Hillier M.P. to speak at ID cards seminar

Just a quick reminder that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity, Meg Hillier M.P., will be one of the speakers at the Digital Identity Forum's joint seminar with EEMA to be held at the British Computer Society in London on January 29th. This seminar, sponsored by Consult Hyperion, will be looking at the business opportunities that might arise from the introduction of the UK national identity card. You can register for the seminar at the EEMA web site.