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Samsung, Mastercard partner to launch biometric payment card

The card will use fingerprint recognition to verify the identities of card holders and will be accepted at Mastercard payment terminals.

The sensor will be embedded on the device and will negate the need for a PIN when authorising purchases. Mastercard aims to leverage its cybersecurity expertise and global payments network to boost cardholder security via this biometric solution.

The card will first be launched in South Korea and will be initially offered to corporate clients that have more frequent international transactions. Samsung will begin issuing corporate cards to South Korean customers later in 2021.

– Thepaypers –

CASHLESS PAYMENTS RISING FAST IN THE UK

In 2018, cashless payments exceeded cash payments in the U.K. for the first time, as the use of banknotes and coins fell a substantial 15 percent.

Now, Merchant Machine, a merchant account and card payment fee comparison provider, has completed a study measuring the impact of cashlessness on specific industries, personal spending and how much different countries have adopted the payment method. 

Following are further findings from the report:

Cashless payment

  • In 2018, the use of contactless payments to purchase clothing grew 321 percent, year over year.
  • The use of cashless payments for parking grew 132 percent.
  • In public transit, 91 percent of payments are not contactless.

Cashless countries

  • At $121.24 trillion in 2017, the U.K. leads Europe in cashless payments across Europe. 
  • Germany was a distant second with cashless payments totaling $63.4 trillion. 
  • France was third with $30.91 trillion in cashless payments. 

– atmmarketplace.com –

NEXT BIOMETRICS AND MK GROUP ANNOUNCE NEW R&D PROGRAM FOR BIOMETRIC SMART CARDS

NEXT Biometrics (Oslo Bors: NEXT), a global leader in fingerprint sensor technology, today announced the company is joining with MK Group to launch an R&D program for biometric smart cards for banking and other applications. The program will integrate NEXT’s large-area fingerprint sensors into MK Group’s next generation smart card products. Vietnam-based MK Group is the leading provider of smart cards and digital security solutions for financial, telecommunication and retail enterprises in Vietnam and one of the largest in South East Asia.

“As the industry moves toward biometric solutions for card-based transactions, companies like MK Group are leading the way toward accelerating this trend,” said Alain Faburel, NEXT chief sales and marketing officer. “We’re very pleased to have our technology considered for MK Group’s future product lineup. This is yet another strong affirmation of the core advantages NEXT is bringing to the smart card segment with our large-area, flexible sensors.”

MK group intends to include biometric solutions in its future products and has selected NEXT’s One Touch Flex CT-150 sensors for use in trials to evaluate contact-based biometric smart card technology. The NEXT One Touch Flex CT-150 is a flexible, large-area sensor designed specifically for biometric smart cards.

“As a leader in smart card technology, incorporating the security and convenience of biometrics in our products is a natural next step forward for MK Group,” said Nguyen Trong Khang, Chairman and CEO, MK Group. “We look forward to working with NEXT Biometrics on this project to share the benefits of advanced fingerprint sensor technology with our customers.”

NEXT technical and sales teams are currently working closely with MK Group on the biometric smart card project, which is expected to begin in the near future. Today’s announcement marks an additional advance in the pace of smart card deployment following recent news from NEXT regarding availability of a biometric smart card reference design that allows for expedited development of smart card products.

About MK Group:
MK Group Joint Stock Company (MK Group) is a Vietnam based company that specializes in wide ranges of digital secure authentication solutions and smart card products. These include: Smart payments; identification and exchange data; digitized identification; transaction and communication; and secure data for identity, transactions and communication. MK Group has 19 years’ experience in serving finance – banking, governments, enterprises, transportation and telecom and ceaselessly invests in order to improve the quality of products and services. The company works closely with customers, partners and other stakeholders to successfully transform their businesses in the fast-changing world of technology.

About NEXT Biometrics:
NEXT provides advanced fingerprint sensor technology that delivers uncompromised security and accuracy for the best possible user experience in the smart card, government ID, access control and notebook markets. The company’s patented NEXT Active Thermal™ principle allows the development of large, high quality fingerprint sensors in both rigid and flexible formats. NEXT Biometrics Group ASA (www.nextbiometrics.com) is headquartered in Oslo, with sales, support and development operations in Seattle, Silicon Valley, Taipei, Prague, Bengaluru and Shanghai.

– Source: www.nextbiometrics.com –

Mobile payments now account for 6% of all UK card transactions

The percentage of payments made with a mobile phone in UK stores has jumped from 1.3% in Q3 2016 to 5.6% in Q3 2018, an analysis of 190m card transactions has shown. Compared to this time last year, the volume of contactless mobile payments has increased by 60%.

For payments under the £30 contactless payments limit, the number of transactions accounted for by mobile payments increased from 1.8% in Q3 2016, to 4.6% in Q3 2017 and then 7% in Q3 2018, the analysis by Cardlytics found.

“The biggest beneficiaries of growing mobile payments are quick-service merchants who have introduced contactless payment methods,” the company says. “This includes quick-service-restaurants (11.3%), coffee shops (11%), public transport (11%) and bars and pubs (9.25%).

“This reflects that mobile payments are used more readily at merchants that people visit on a daily basis and wish to pay more expediently, while less popular amongst bigger-ticket, one off purchases.”

“London is by far the biggest adopter of mobile pay, accounting for 7% of payments less than £30 and 5.7% of all transactions – at least 2% higher than any other region,” Cardlytics adds.

“Outside of London, east of England and the rest of the south east have been the fastest movers, with 3.3% and 3.2% of all transactions respectively carried out via Apple, Google or Android pay. Yorkshire ranks fourth with 2.9%.”

“The huge growth in contactless payments has been well documented, and we’re now seeing mobile payments making a big contribution to that growth, often at the expense of cash,” says Duncan Smith, commercial director at Cardlytics.

– Nfcworld – 

Chase to roll out contactless Visa cards in US

JP Morgan Chase, the largest card issuer in the U.S., will roll out Visa contactless payment cards — including debit, credit and co-branded cards — to millions of the bank’s cardholders starting later this year, according to a press release from the bank.

Starting with Chase Freedom Unlimited and Chase Slate customers, the bank will issue Visa contactless Tap to Go credit cards to all new cardholders and to existing cardholders receiving reissued cards.

All Chase credit cards will have Tap to Go capabilities by the first half of 2019. Chase will roll out Tap to Go to all debit card holders during the second half of 2019, the release said.

The contactless payment feature means that cardholders need only tap their card on the contactless-enabled card reader to pay for their purchase at millions of retailers and other outlets. The dual interface cards use RFID and secure EMV chip technology to generate a one time code to secure the payment information, Chase said.

– atmmarketplace.com –

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