{"id":15277,"date":"2020-09-03T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=15277"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T12:30:22","slug":"payment-solutions-for-a-new-world-biometric-payment-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/payment-solutions-for-a-new-world-biometric-payment-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment solutions for a new world: biometric payment cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biometric payment cards are finally poised to become a commercial reality, with Norwegian company Zwipe leading the way. According to Zwipe CEO Andre Lovestam, the company plans on small-scale commercial launches of the 1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> generation of biometric payment cards by the end of the year and expects demand to increase over the next few years. To increase usage and convenience, Zwipe has also teamed up with Watchdata Technologies to bring biometric payment technology to wearable devices in addition to the physical payment cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lovestam attributes much of the recent demand for biometric payment options to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the importance of contactless payment solutions that do not compromise security.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-15277 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Big Data pushing online credit scoring in Russia'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/big-data-pushing-online-credit-scoring-in-russia\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/5e19296b-7b51-4e32-9876-4f21636c9b2c1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15327\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15327'>\n\t\t\t\tBig Data pushing online credit scoring in Russia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Russia\u2019s problem with high-skilled expatriation'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/russia-s-problem-with-high-skilled-expatriation\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/russia-s-problem-with-high-skilled-expatriation-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12508\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12508'>\n\t\t\t\tRussia\u2019s problem with high-skilled expatriation\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Singaporean mobile wallet providers form payment consortium'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/singaporean-mobile-wallet-providers-form-payment-consortium\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cropped-image-of-woman-inputting-card-information-and-key-on-phone-or-laptop-while-shopping-online_1423-68-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-9551\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-9551'>\n\t\t\t\tSingaporean mobile wallet providers form payment consortium\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biometric payment cards are finally poised to become a commercial reality, with Norwegian company Zwipe leading the way. According to Zwipe CEO Andre Lovestam, the company plans on small-scale commercial launches of the 1st generation of biometric payment cards by the end of the year and expects demand to increase over the next few years. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15279,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions\/15279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}