Gemalto: biometric contactless payment card pilot project
(CercleFinance.com) - Gemalto announces that it has been chosen for a pilot project promoted by Intesa Sanpaolo and Mastercard, which enables a contactless EMV payment card to be tested for the first time in Europe.
The scheme is set to take place in Turin, Milan and Rome and it scheduled to last 16 weeks.
Intesa Sanpaolo has 11.9 million clients and 4,400 branches in Italy. Gemalto's solution inludes the secure and immediate registration of fingerprints at selected sites. In future, clients will even be able to register for this service from their homes.
“To ensure the right to privacy, biometric data is stored on the card itself, not the bank's servers. Protection is further enhanced by the fact that personal data is encrypted and never leaves the card,” the group added.
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The scheme is set to take place in Turin, Milan and Rome and it scheduled to last 16 weeks.
Intesa Sanpaolo has 11.9 million clients and 4,400 branches in Italy. Gemalto's solution inludes the secure and immediate registration of fingerprints at selected sites. In future, clients will even be able to register for this service from their homes.
“To ensure the right to privacy, biometric data is stored on the card itself, not the bank's servers. Protection is further enhanced by the fact that personal data is encrypted and never leaves the card,” the group added.
Copyright (c) 2018 CercleFinance.com. All rights reserved.