Biometric cards developers prepare to support mass adoption for payments, access control
Biometric payment cards featured prominently among the presentations at the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association’s (APSCA’s) recent Next-Generation Cards 2022…
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Thales continues biometric card R&D in France, approved by Mastercard for quantum security
Thales is developing biometric bank cards and working on eSIM technnologies at a French research facility in La Ciotat launched…
New spec pushed to speed evolution of biometric cards and mobile payments
EMVCo, which writes and manages voluntary Europay-Mastercard–Visa specifications for secure and interoperable card-based payments systems worldwide, has published a draft…
Fingerprint Cards receives volume biometric sensor order for PCs, wins approval for mobile payments
An unnamed Asian PC-maker has ordered “a couple of hundred thousand” units of Fingerprint Cards new biometric PC solution. The…
Idemia biometric card secure chip certified for ICCN security, Zwipe signs worldwide distribution deal
A new milestone on the path towards next-generation biometric cards has been achieved by Idemia and Zwipe, the companies say, with…
Use of biometrics for 3-D Secure payments explained in EMVCo and FIDO Alliance paper
Global payments technology body EMVCo has published a white paper to help guide merchants and issuers adopting FIDO authentication via…
Idex Biometrics and Thales achieves certifications for smart cards, mobile ID security software
Idex Biometrics has successfully completed the EMVCo Security Evaluation for its development site in Farnborough, U.K., making a landmark achievement…
Web Payment collaboration group formed to increase security and interoperability
The FIDO Alliance, EMVCo, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have created a new interest group for collaboration on…
