More than 320,000 passengers have now used Moscow Metro’s FacePay face biometrics service to pay for more than 67m trips, the transportation operator reports, up from 220,000 registered users and 32m journeys in January 2023... More
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Genesis lets GV60 drivers unlock their car via face biometrics
Buyers of luxury car maker Genesis’ new GV60 will be able to use a new version of its digital key facility that is the first in the world to support face biometrics, allowing owners to access their vehicle using their face alone... More
Steak ’n Shake to accept face biometrics for payments and rewards at 300 US outlets
US burger and shakes chain Steak ’n Shake is to make use of face biometrics for both payments and rewards at self-ordering kiosks at 300 of its US outlets, beginning in Orlando, Florida... More
Shinhan Bank to introduce face biometrics at ATMs in South Korea
Korea’s Shinhan Bank is to begin rolling out biometric ATMs that will allow customers to access ATM services without needing to carry a bank card... More
Linxens reports on the market outlook for biometric cards, display cards, dynamic CVVs, sustainable substrates and more
A new Contactless World Congress presentation that provides in-depth insight into the current state of play and market outlook for next-generation contactless cards is now available in the NFCW Knowledge Centre... More
Seven-Eleven stores in Japan to let consumers access ATM services via face biometrics
Seven Bank, a division of Seven-Eleven Japan’s parent company Seven & i Holdings, is to let consumers use face biometrics to deposit and withdraw cash and perform banking services at 20,000 ATMs in Seven-Eleven stores across Japan. More
Apple picks iris biometrics for Vision Pro virtual reality headset user authentication
Apple has integrated a secure enclave into its new Vision Pro virtual reality headset that supports Optic ID, “a new secure authentication system that analyses a user’s iris under various invisible LED light exposures”... More
Coors Field combines age verification with biometric payments for baseball fans buying alcoholic beverages
Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball (MLB) team, has become the first sports venue to use a new version of Amazon’s palm biometric payments solution that removes the need for bar staff to manually check whether a customer purchasing alcohol is over 21... More
Arizona Motor Vehicle Division lets residents check in for services with their mobile driving licence
Residents of the US state of Arizona can now use a digital driving licence stored on their smartphone to verify their identity when checking in to use services at the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division (AZMVD) office in the city of Scottsdale... More
Kuwait International Bank launches contactless biometric payment cards
Customers of Kuwait International Bank (KIB) can now apply for a biometric payment card that allows them to authenticate contactless payments at the point of sale with their fingerprints... More
Beijing Subway lets passengers use their palm as a ticket
Passengers travelling on the Beijing Daxing Airport Express subway service in the Chinese capital can now pass through ticketing gates by scanning their palm... More
Celent analyst Zil Bareisis reports on what’s next in contactless payments
New form factors, value-added services, issuing business models and payment acceptance innovations such as softPOS solutions are the driving forces behind what’s next in the contactless card payments market, Bareisis explains in a presentation for Contactless World Congress. More
UK food bank lets users make in-store purchases with donated funds
Food bank users in the London borough of Hackney in the UK can now buy essential food items at local grocery stores by using a smartphone app to generate a QR code with their face and then use this code to authorise payments from dedicated funds... More
Singapore lays out plans for passport-free contactless biometric in-car border checks
Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is to implement an upgraded version of the contactless biometric automated in-car clearance system (APICS) that it began testing using a passport-based solution in July 2022... More
Colombian banks pilot national digital IDs for transaction authentication
Residents of Colombia with a La Cédula Digital Colombiana digital national identity card can now use their facial biometric data stored on the National Registry of Civil Status to authenticate their identity when opening a bank account, requesting a loan or carrying out other transactions on mobile banking apps, at bank branches and at ATMs... More
Richmond International Airport to pilot contactless biometric cards for access control
Richmond International Airport is the first in the USA to test contactless biometric access control cards that enable employees or other authorised cardholders to verify their identity at entrances to secure areas using two-factor authentication... More
Rwanda to roll out digital ID cards for use on smartphones
Rwanda is to develop and launch a digital national identity card that residents will be able to store and use on their smartphone and which will replace the country’s existing physical ID card, according to Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation Paula Ingabire... More
Carrefour Dubai cuts transaction times by 75% with face biometrics
The average transaction time for customers opting to pay for their purchases at Carrefour stores in Dubai with a biometric payment system using face recognition technology is 75% less than for other point-of-sale (POS) payment systems, the retailer says... More
Los Angeles restaurant chain lets customers pay by face or palm
Customers at Pho Banh Mi Che Cali restaurants in Los Angeles in the US can now opt to pay for their orders with either their face or their palm using a biometric payments acceptance system... More