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Biometric payment cards: how BNP Paribas pulled off the world’s first large-scale launch

Discover an innovative contactless solution improving the overall payment experience. Learn more on the BNP Paris Biometric payment card. 
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03 Aug 2020

How innovation can turn a payment card into an eco-friendly solution

Sustainability is increasingly important to the way an organisation does business as consumers demand an eco-responsible approach from the businesses they buy from. Over the last few years people and businesses have been looking at ways to reduce the use of plastic. Ev...
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08 Jul 2020

Over 2 million eco-friendly banking cards already delivered by Thales

In the past 60 years, almost 8 billion tons of plastic have been produced. Thales, world leader in digital security, is convinced that reducing the usage from source would be the most effective way to get rid of unnecessary plastic waste. As a result, Thales was the fi...
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19 Dec 2018

Intesa Sanpaolo turns to Gemalto for Italy’s first biometric contactless payment card pilot

A built-in fingerprint sensor eliminates the need for a PIN or signature - A unique battery-less card is powered via existing PoS terminals.
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15 Apr 2018

areeba introduces Gemalto's contactless biometric payment card to the Middle East

Revolutionary contact and contactless card replaces PINs with a built-in fingerprint scanner -  areeba's new initiative is a first for the MEA region
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04 Jan 2018

Gemalto launches the first biometric EMV card for contactless payments

Biometric authentication replaces PIN code facilitating higher value contactless transactions.  Maximum privacy protection ensured by a secure in-branch enrolment process and on-card storage of sensitive biometric information. ...
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11 Feb 2015

Santander, MasterCard and Gemalto achieve largest deployment of contactless EMV cards in South America

Gemalto announces it has deployed more than one million Optelio contactless EMV cards​ in a year for Banco Santander Brasil, through Santander Universities.
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