IDEMIA is a pioneer in the biometric payment card industry with F.CODE, the world’s first biometric payment card—allowing customers to authorize payments via a fingerprint sensor.
Technology is changing the way individuals can prove their identity. The use of biometrics improves the security and usability of our identities with the simple press of a finger or scan of a face or iris, ensuring that our identities remain our own.
Proving our identity is particularly important when it comes to making purchases. With IDEMIA’s F.CODE biometric payment card customers authorize payments via a fingerprint sensor embedded into the card. To ensure privacy, their biometric data is securely stored in the chip and never leaves the card.
Besides increased security, nothing else changes for the cardholder or the merchant. With this fully EMV compliant card, transactions are still made by tapping or inserting the card into a merchant POS terminal. However, with F.CODE the transaction is authenticated the same instant the card is tapped; meaning the contactless payment method can be used no matter the amount of the transaction or the threshold. This makes transaction security even more convenient.
Link to IDEMIA website: Biometric payment card | IDEMIA
