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NEC DGDF Headquarters Relocates To Zurich

May 12, 2025

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NEC Corporation has announced the relocation of its Digital Government and Digital Finance (DGDF) Headquarters from Tokyo to Zürich, Switzerland, in August this year. Tomoki Kubo, Corporate EVP and President of NEC’s DGDF Business Unit, will be appointed CEO of NEC DGDF Headquarters. NEC is accelerating the growth of its DGDF business globally and strengthening its global operations and management through quicker decision-making and closer communication with its European subsidiaries and customers, especially with Avaloq, a Digital Finance subsidiary in […]

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NEC Achieves #1 Global Ranking in Face Recognition Accuracy by NIST

April 9, 2025

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NEC Corporation has announced that its face recognition technology was ranked the world’s most accurate in the most recent benchmark test conducted by the globally recognized U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The latest Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) 1:N Identification report indicates that NEC’s system received the highest performance rating, with an authentication error rate of 0.07%, in the “1:N Identification” test using still images of 12 million people. In addition, it also ranked first in two […]

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NEC wins Frost & Sullivan’s Biometric Innovation Award

March 18, 2021

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NEC Corporation has announced that it was won the 2020 Global Biometrics in Security Market Growth Innovation & Leadership Excellence Frost Radar Award by Frost & Sullivan.

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NEC strengthens its face recognition technology

October 8, 2020

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NEC Corporation announced the strengthening of its face recognition technology, already recognized as the world’s most accurate, with the development of a new face recognition engine that provides high-precision certification even when masks are worn.

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NEC’s face recognition technology achieves highest matching accuracy

October 10, 2019

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NEC Corporation recently announced that its face recognition technology achieved the highest matching accuracy in the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2018 performed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with an error rate of 0.5% when registering 12 million people.

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NEC bags intelligent transportation system project in Oman

May 27, 2019

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NEC Corporation recently announced that it has been awarded an intelligent transportation system (ITS) project for the public transport network in the Sultanate of Oman from Oman National Transport Company S.A.O.C (MWASALAT) and the system is scheduled to launch by the last quarter of the 2019 calendar year.

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NEC secures Taiwanese Bank with Biometric ATMs

February 28, 2019

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Taiwan’s E. Sun Commercial Bank partnered with NEC Corporation to make ATM transactions more secure by equipping their ATM machines with NEC’s NeoFace facial recognition technology and can create a unique customer profile for anyone using the machine.

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NEC develops new identification technology

February 12, 2019

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NEC announced the development of a “Person Re-identification Technology” that is capable of matching images of people whose figures are partially hidden from cameras, even if the image is taken from behind or from the side.

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NEC wins Smart City Project in India

January 7, 2019

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NEC Corporation recently announced that NEC Technologies India Private Limited has concluded a contract to provide Command & Control Centre components and other IoT enabled smart ICT systems for Hubballi Dharwad Smart City Limited (HDSCL).

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NEC acquires Danish company to accelerate it’s global safety business

January 3, 2019

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NEC recently announced the acquisition of a Danish IT company, KMD Holding for approximately 8 billion Danish Kroner (DKK). This acquisition is expected to accelerate NEC’s global safety business, which it has positioned as a growth engine for the company.

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