contactless payment /en en The new rules of modern payment card issuance /en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/bank-payment/magazine/new-rules-modern-payment-card Today, everyone wants everything more or less immediately. It's the one-click mentality. What about card issuance? Are consumers prepared to wait days for a new plastic card to arrive in the post? Let's take a look at how card issuance is changing. 10 Oct 2023 2743343 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG That card looks so good on you! How the payment card went from function to fashion /en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/bank-payment/magazine/card-looks-so-good-you-how-payment Thanks to the growth of contactless payment, card usage is skyrocketing all over the world. Let's see how banks and fintechs are innovating around card design and function… 10 Jul 2023 2743023 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG Contactless payments: adoption, innovation and a window into how they work /en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/bank-payment/magazine/contactless-payments-adoption [Infographics] Contactless payments are everywhere in 2023. Even street vendors accept them. But how do these transactions actually work? What is happening in the background in the split second between tapping the reader and the transaction being accepted? 24 Apr 2023 2742571 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG Are digital payments set to become mainstream? /en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/bank-payment/magazine/are-digital-payments-set-become [Infographic] What are the next trends in digital payment? Can the battle against fraud be won? How can marginalised groups participate in world of virtual commerce? Is cash dying? Here's a snapshot of the current climate 25 Apr 2022 2740589 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG Poland’s first biometric card developed by ׻ comes into customers’ hands /en/poland/press_release/polands-first-biometric-card-developed-thales-comes-customers-hands <p>Since 20th of December, Poland’s first EMV biometric cards are coming into hands of Bank Pocztowy’s customers. The payment is realized only after the biometric verification of the cardholder’s fingerprint.</p> 20 Dec 2021 2739972 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG A history of payment cards - from clay tablets to EMV cards... /en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/bank-payment/magazine/history-payment-cards-clay-tablets <p>Have you ever wondered about the origins of the credit card – or just how payments tech has evolved in the last 100 years or so? Here’s how payments have evolved to be so quick and convenient</p> 09 Nov 2021 2739787 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG 7 game-changing innovations that will re-boot banking /en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/bank-payment/magazine/7-game-changing-innovations-will-re <p>A bank used to be a place. Now, it's more like an idea. Digital technology has already changed people's perceptions of what banking is. Now a new wave of tech – from machine learning to blockchain to biometrics – is set to take these changes to the next level</p> 28 Oct 2021 2739731 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG ׻ Partners with EVERING to Secure the Next-Generation of Wearable Fashion in Japan /en/group/press_release/thales-partners-evering-secure-next-generation-wearable-fashion-japan <p>EVERING, a fast-growing Japanese FinTech startup, launches its NFC ring, bringing the convenience of contactless payment to Japanese consumers, leveraging a “Less is Smart” philosophy.</p> 15 Sep 2021 2739471 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG ׻ biometric payment card: a secure innovation in your pocket /en/group/journalist/press-release/thales-biometric-payment-card-secure-innovation-your-pocket <p>•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;More than 20 projects already developed by ׻. Fingerprint biometrics set to be the authentication method of choice for EMV payment cards.<br> •&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Social distancing drives demand for a contactless and touchless in-store payment experience. Biometric payment cards meet this need for all transactions, with no spending limits.<br> •&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;׻ is first to provide a contactless biometric card fully compliant with major payment scheme certifications.<br> &nbsp;</p> 19 Jul 2021 2739248 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG Contactless payment wearables now available worldwide thanks to ׻ technology /en/spain/magazine/contactless-payment-wearables-now-available-worldwide-thanks-thales-technology <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Immersed as we are in the third decade of the 21st century, certain technologies are becoming indispensable for the comfort and quality of life of the everyday citizen. Among all of them, the wearable (small, portable devices that we carry with us and that have different applications), whose take off began in 2014, and those related to contactless payment, which has accelerated significantly with the arrival of the pandemic and the consequent social distance, stand out.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> 29 Apr 2021 2738751 /sites/default/files/database/assets/images/2023-10/banking.JPG