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OT-Morpho introduces the world’s first complete range of biometric payment cards
OT-Morpho, a world leader in digital security and identification technologies, today announces the creation of the market’s first complete range of biometric payment cards, a range which reinforces payment security.
Posted on 06.26.17
It can also help governments distribute social benefits, knowing that they reach no one else than the eligible (proof of life) citizen. Banks can also use the biometric card as a differentiating factor to keep their card ‘top of wallet’ for their customers.
Further, biometric cards will take contactless payments to the next stage. As a customer authenticates the payment by holding his/her finger onto the biometric card, the added security enables merchants to extend the threshold of contactless payments, which are currently capped at smaller amounts.
Biometric recognition is now available through a fingerprint sensor which has been inserted into a fully EMV-compliant card. The cardholder’s biometric fingerprint template is securely stored in the chip of the card. As the card is inserted into/tapped onto an EMV payment terminal, cardholders place their finger onto the sensor and an OT-Morpho algorithm matches the fingerprint to the template stored in the card, replacing the manual entry of a PIN.
As market leader, OT-Morpho is the first to deploy a full range of cards equipped with biometric authentication enabling both contact and contactless payments. OT-Morpho offers an end-to-end solution, including enrollment, biometric data management, card production and personalization
Eric Duforest, OT-Morpho, Managing Director of the Financial Services Institutions business at OT
Visitors to Money 20/20 Europe in Copenhagen (June 26 – 28, 2017) will have the opportunity to discover this innovative payment card at the OT-Morpho booth.
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OT-Morpho - is now IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, with the ambition to empower citizens and consumers alike to interact, pay, connect, travel and vote in ways that are now possible in a connected environment.
Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect this asset, whether for individuals or for objects. We ensure privacy and trust as well as guarantee secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Security and IoT sectors.
With close to €3bn in revenues, IDEMIA is the result of the merger between OT (Oberthur Technologies) and Safran Identity & Security (Morpho). This new company counts 14,000 employees of more than 80 nationalities and serves clients in 180 countries.
For more information, visit www.idemia.com / Follow @IdemiaGroup on Twitter
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