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American fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has opened a fully automated outlet of its popular franchise in Moscow featuring essentially zero contact between customers and employees, and a biometric payment option. The ‘restaurant of the future’ — as KFC calls it — in Moscow comes three years after the company launched its first […]
South Korea’s Shinhan Card is moving beyond physical payment cards with a new naked payments scheme. The Shinhan Face Pay system will allow users to make purchases with a facial recognition scan instead of a more traditional payment card. To use the new system, a customer will first need to register their facial biometrics […]
“We are beyond excited to be introducing this line of devices that will extend Amazon’s innovative work, from not only replacing your credit card, to replacing your keys, work badge, flight tickets, hotel reservations, drivers license and more – all with the wave of a hand.” – Jaxon Klein, Co-founder & CEO, Keyo Keyo Inc. […]
Amazon is reportedly trying to develop checkout terminals that would allow customers to use a palm scan to pay for goods and services at physical establishments. The tech giant has been collaborating with Mastercard and Visa – in addition to card issuers like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony – to ensure the security […]
“… a simple face scan will allow the system to retrieve the necessary billing information for a given transaction, and to process it, bypassing the need for the customer to present a physical payment card or any other hardware.” Denmark is once again the site of a pioneering trial of a biometric payments system, this […]
CLEAR and United Airlines have announced the launch of CLEAR lanes for United travellers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, making their service available at every United Airlines hub in the United States. CLEAR lanes allow expedited security screening for passengers by letting them quickly identify themselves with either a fingerprint or iris scan. After enrolling […]
A Nestle grocery store in Spain is partnering with CaixaBank to trial a new facial payment system in an attempt to speed up customer transactions ahead of the coming holiday shopping season. Payments are made using the Face to Pay Nestle Market app, where users are required to register their personal information along with credit […]
Coinciding with the biggest conference event in the financial services industry – Money20/20 USA – October was Financial Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics. Financial services has become one of the most important verticals for biometric technology in recent years, and given the dynamism of this sector, it’s worth taking a close look at recent, ongoing, and […]
Cash is getting scarce. It wasn’t so long ago that most transactions done in stores involved hard currency, but over time, dollars and bills have been increasingly displaced by debit and credit cards. Convenience is a big part of the reason, especially in countries where NFC-enabled POS terminals allow consumers to pay just by tapping […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition SnapPay is bringing face-based naked payments to North America. The Ontario startup currently allows North American retailers to accept Alipay and WeChat Pay, and is hoping to offer even greater utility with technology that allows shoppers to pay for their goods with a simple facial recognition scan. The company’s facial […]
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