Biometric Update
A Carrefour Market in Paris is implementing palm vein biometrics for payment in partnership with Mastercard’s Biometric Checkout Program Ingenico, just in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics, The Connexion reports.
The Carrefour Market in Paris’ 6th arrondissement will launch on July 29. Customers can link their palm biometrics to a payment card at a dedicated terminal from Ingenico. After that, they simply hold the registered palm over the payment terminal to perform authentication.
The supermarket chain says the biometric payment system enhances the security of customers’ banking data while making the checkout experience smoother. It chose the launch to coincide with the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, when huge volumes of tourists are expected to visit the city.
The system appears to be the same as the one recently launched by Tienda Inglesa’s Red Expres stores in Uruguay by partners including Ingenico, under Mastercard’s Biometric Checkout Program. Fulcrum Biometrics, Fujitsu Frontech and Scanntech are also partners in the deployment in Uruguay.
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