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Morpho works with Visa to advance biometric authentication solutions in payment
February 2016 by Marc Jacob
Morpho (Safran) announced it will work with Visa to showcase new ways to pay using technologies such as biometric recognition. These technologies will be applied to existing means of payment such as credit or debit cards, mobile, ATMs and Points of Sale (POS) terminals, to enhance transaction security for financial institutions and customer convenience.
As the mobile banking and payment market expands, so does the need for highly secure solutions such as biometrics, tokenization, digital signature and other solutions to protect consumers against identity theft and fraud. Morpho’s collaboration with Visa intends to explore innovative security solutions in response to the strong growth in this market.
Morpho and Visa are working together to explore several new payment concepts, which are being co-demonstrated by the two companies at Mobile World Congress, February 22-25 in Barcelona, Spain (Visa Booth 6D40, Hall 6), as well as Visa’s innovation center at its San Francisco headquarters. Some of the demonstrations include biometrics for proximity payments, including the use of MorphoWave™ technology, the world’s first biometric solution capturing and matching four fingerprints with a single hand movement in less than a second.
According to the global market research firm TrendForce, by the end of 2016, total revenue of the worldwide mobile payment market is estimated to arrive at US$620 billion, representing a massive growth of 37.8% year on year.1 Biometric usage in banking continues to rapidly expand. Experts at Goode Intelligence forecast that by 2017 there will be one billion users accessing banking services through biometric systems1.
1 Mobey Forum, Biometrics in Payments : Touching Convenience, Nov 2015
