{"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='Cybersecurity Trends for 2024'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/cybersecurity-trends-for-2024\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6264fc1b-bf77-33f0-66a0-f0d23aae12c21-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17408\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17408'>\n\t\t\t\tCybersecurity Trends for 2024\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Banks Lag in Adopting Generative AI'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/banks-lag-in-adopting-generative-ai\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/f7033231-50d3-8534-e444-af765eafd4271-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17583\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17583'>\n\t\t\t\tBanks Lag in Adopting Generative AI\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='41% of EU banks fail to meet important PSD2 deadline'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/41-of-eu-banks-fail-to-meet-important-psd2-deadline\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/41-of-eu-banks-fail-to-meet-important-psd2-deadline-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12988\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12988'>\n\t\t\t\t41% of EU banks fail to meet important PSD2 deadline\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":[],"class_list":["post-15277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-fintech","category-international-fintech","bulletin_edition-08_august","bulletin_edition-fintech-2020","b_post_type-the-fintech-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}