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

13 Oct 2021

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

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

03 Aug 2020

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. Even if it is still currently the most used material for traditional payment cards and other banking devices, a lot of banks worldwide offer alternatives whenever possible.

Over 2 million eco-friendly banking cards already delivered by �׻��

08 Jul 2020

In the past 60 years, almost 8 billion tons of plastic have been produced. �׻��, 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, �׻�� was the first supplier providing Gemalto Bio Sourced (PLA) cards, an innovative alternative to plastic, and has already delivered more than 2 million of those to banks in different countries.

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

19 Dec 2018

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

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

15 Apr 2018

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

Gemalto launches the first biometric EMV card for contactless payments

04 Jan 2018

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.

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

11 Feb 2015

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