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JPMorgan Chase is planning to test new technology that would let consumers pay with their palms or faces at certain U.S. merchants.
March 23 -
Mastercard has begun to trial a biometric payment system for brick-and-mortar stores, using facial recognition rather than contactless cards, smartphones or memorable PINs.
May 17 -
The bank is piloting fingerprint-reading cards that work with existing payment terminals. Its goals are to strengthen security for large transactions and to inform future deployments in other markets.
July 12 -
The payments technology provider is adding a handprint biometric digital ID to its authentication system through a partnership with the French fintech A3BC.
July 7 -
The Faster Identity Online Alliance has established its first user-experience guidelines and delivered new standards designed to more quickly move authentication processes past traditional username-and-password combinations.
June 23 -
Citing the risk of bias and misidentification, cities and civil liberties groups are calling more loudly for a ban on the use of face scans.
May 3 -
The e-commerce giant's Amazon One palm-scanning can enroll consumers for building access and other use cases that require an ID.
March 12 -
With mobile payments and banking apps on the rise, biometric authentication is now increasingly common in consumer finance, says Fingerprints' Michel Roig.
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With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic prompting more consumers to use contactless payments, the U.K.’s banks have lobbied for higher contactless payments limits, a move which could benefit the biometrics payments industry.
January 29 -
Biometric authentication has always been a challenging subject with consumers, who are accustomed to using the technology to unlock their phones but are still wary about how much personal information they share with retailers and card issuers.
January 25