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SmartMetric Says up to 86% of Consumers Are Interested in Using Biometric Technology on Credit Cards to Make More Secure Payments “ but It Must Be Easy to Enroll and Work in All Card Transaction Poi
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SmartMetric, Inc. (OTC: SMME), according to Visa (NYSE:), amongst the surveyed American consumers in 2017, 65.0% of the consumers were familiar with biometrics and almost 86.0% of the consumers were interested in making use of biometrics to verify identity and make payments. 1
Unfortunately for consumers, a few premature and ill thought-through rollouts of biometric credit cards in Europe have met with consumer resistance. It is not because consumers are not interested in enhanced credit card security using biometric technology built inside the card, but rather the cards used in these trials failed to make the experience simple and frictionless for the card user.
First point of resistance is that card users needed to go into a bank and use a fingerprint scanner in the bank to register their fingerprint on the biometric card. This in a day and age when consumers hardly ever visit a bank branch, including receiving their credit cards via mail. The strange thing is that banking is done on mobile phones that may or may not use biometrics, but if biometrics is used, it is very simple for a consumer to register their fingerprint on their phone. No need to visit a bank branch and give your fingerprint to the bank.
In making enrollment of a person’s fingerprint onto their biometric card requiring a visit to a bank made such trials ready to fail from the beginning, said SmartMetric’s President and CEO, Chaya Hendrick.
Another failure point was the fact that a person needed to hold their card inside a reader, since these biometric trial cards did not have their own internal power, but rather used the power of the card reader to power the on-card fingerprint matching process.
The biggest problem with card reader power-dependent cards is that in many situations the card reader requires full insertion into the reader, thereby not allowing the card holder to hold the card;s fingerprint sensor to perform an on-card fingerprint scan, making such non-powered cards unusable in many credit card use situations, said Chaya Hendrick.
The SmartMetric biometric card solves all these issues. Having its own internal rechargeable battery, it allows the card to work at home for initial secure fingerprint enrollment. As simple as enrolling your fingerprint on a smartphone. As well as being self-powered, the card scans the user’s fingerprint prior to being inserted into a reader, allowing the card to be used at any credit card reader. The card user simply touches the card’s fingerprint sensor and instantly the fingerprint is scanned and matched, which in turn activates the card’s contact and contactless NFC chip.
The global biometric payment cards market size was valued at USD 74.4 million in 2021.
It is projected to reach USD 5.8 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 62.50% during the forecast period (2022“2030).2
We at SmartMetric are excited about the future substantial growth and demand for credit and debit cards that have built inside biometric fingerprint detection and activation, such as what we have created, said SmartMetric’s President and CEO, Chaya Hendrick.
The SmartMetric biometric fingerprint scanning credit card is unique in the world, in that it is the first and only such card that has an inbuilt rechargeable battery, allowing the card to be used at any type of credit card reader, including contactless and A™ readers.
Inside the card is also a hardware engineered solution that senses when an actual live fingerprint is used on the card that foils fake fingerprints from thieves.
Our amazing fingerprint activated biometric credit card is years ahead of anyone else, and will provide a quantum leap in anti-credit card fraud for banks and consumers alike, said Chaya Hendrick.
A fingerprint scan credit card is a type of biometric card that uses a built-in fingerprint scanner to verify the identity of the cardholder when they try to make a payment. This technology is designed to enhance the security and convenience of credit card transactions, especially for contactless payments, as well as standard contact payments and A™ transactions.
It has taken years of research and development to perfect the internal power system within the SmartMetric finger scan card. Millions of dollars in research and development have been invested to create the only card of its kind in the world that will work at all card readers. A card that is simple to download your fingerprint into the card at home without the fear and inconvenience of going somewhere else to have your fingerprint scanned and stored into the card.
The SmartMetric fingerprint scanner inside the card is light years ahead, and brings the reality of full biometric security technology to the ubiquitous credit and debit card world.
Credit cards still dominate the way consumer make payments. Non-credit card payments such as phones account for less than 5% of payment transactions, while the majority of transactions are done using either a credit or debit card.
According to a report published by Forbes Adviser on March 9, 2023, Over the past year, nearly half the population (47.5%) opened at least one new account, bringing the total number of accounts to over 518 million by the end of 2022.3
1 Biometric Payment Cards Market Size Report, 2022 – 2030 (grandviewresearch.com)
2 Biometric Payment Cards Market Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Forecast 2030 (straitsresearch.com)
3 Credit Card Statistics And Trends 2024 “ Forbes Advisor
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Palantir, Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts, FT reports
(Reuters) – Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:) and defense tech company Anduril Industries are in talks with about a dozen competitors to form a consortium that will jointly bid for U.S. government work, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
The consortium, which could announce agreements with other tech groups as early as January, is expected to include SpaceX, OpenAI, autonomous shipbuilder Saronic and artificial intelligence data group Scale AI, the newspaper said, citing several people with knowledge of the matter.
“We are working together to provide a new generation of defence contractors,” a person involved in developing the group told the newspaper.
The consortium will bring together the heft of some of Silicon Valley’s most valuable companies and will leverage their products to provide a more efficient way of supplying the U.S. government with cutting-edge defence and weapons capabilities, the newspaper added.
Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI, Scale AI and Saronic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. SpaceX could not be immediately reached for a comment.
Reuters reported earlier this month that President-elect Donald Trump’s planned U.S. government efficiency drive involving Elon Musk could lead to more joint projects between big defense contractors and smaller tech firms in areas such as artificial intelligence, drones and uncrewed submarines.
Musk, who was named as a co-leader of a government efficiency initiative in the incoming government, has indicated that Pentagon spending and priorities will be a target of the efficiency push, spreading anxiety at defense heavyweights such as Boeing (NYSE:) , Northrop Grumman (NYSE:) , Lockheed Martin (NYSE:) and General Dynamics (NYSE:) .
Musk and many small defense tech firms have been aligned in criticizing legacy defense programs like Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet while calling for mass production of cheaper AI-powered drones, missiles and submarines.
Such views have given major defense contractors more incentive to partner with emerging defense technology players in these areas.
By Simon Lewis (JO:)
(Reuters) -The Biden administration is concerned that a weakened Iran could build a nuclear weapon, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, adding that he was briefing President-elect Donald Trump’s team on the risk.
Iran has suffered setbacks to its regional influence after Israel’s assaults on its allies, Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, followed by the fall of Iran-aligned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Israeli strikes on Iranian facilities, including missile factories and air defenses, have reduced Tehran’s conventional military capabilities, Sullivan told CNN.
“It’s no wonder there are voices (in Iran) saying, ‘Hey, maybe we need to go for a nuclear weapon right now … Maybe we have to revisit our nuclear doctrine’,” Sullivan said.
Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, but it has expanded uranium enrichment since Trump, in his 2017-2021 presidential term, pulled out of a deal between Tehran and world powers that put restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief.
Sullivan said that there was a risk that Iran might abandon its promise not to build nuclear weapons.
“It’s a risk we are trying to be vigilant about now. It’s a risk that I’m personally briefing the incoming team on,” Sullivan said, adding that he had also consulted with U.S. ally Israel.
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, could return to his hardline Iran policy by stepping up sanctions on Iran’s oil industry.
Sullivan said Trump would have an opportunity to pursue diplomacy with Tehran, given Iran’s “weakened state.”
“Maybe he can come around this time, with the situation Iran finds itself in, and actually deliver a nuclear deal that curbs Iran’s nuclear ambitions for the long term,” he said.
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Ukraine says Russian general deliberately targeted Reuters staff in August missile strike
(Reuters) -Ukraine’s security service has named a Russian general it suspects of ordering a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine in August and said he acted “with the motive of deliberately killing employees of” Reuters.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement on Friday that Colonel General Alexei Kim, a deputy chief of Russia’s General Staff, approved the strike that killed Reuters safety adviser Ryan Evans and wounded two of the agency’s journalists on Aug. 24.
In a statement posted on Telegram messenger the SBU said it was notifying Kim in absentia that he was an official suspect in its investigation into the strike on the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk, a step in Ukrainian criminal proceedings that can later lead to charges.
In a separate, 15-page notice of suspicion, in which the SBU set out findings from its investigation, the agency said that the decision to fire the missile was made “with the motive of deliberately killing employees of the international news agency Reuters who were engaged in journalistic activities in Ukraine”.
The document, which was published on the website of the General Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, said that Kim had received intelligence that Reuters staff were staying in Kramatorsk. It added that Kim would have been “fully aware that the individuals were civilians and not participating in the armed conflict”.
The Russian defence ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the SBU’s findings and has not replied to previous questions about the attack. The Kremlin also did not respond to a request for comment. Kim did not reply to messages sent by Reuters to his mobile telephone seeking comment about the SBU’s statement and whether the strike deliberately targeted Reuters staff.
The SBU did not provide evidence to support its claims, nor say why Russia targeted Reuters. In response to questions from the news agency, the security agency declined to provide further details, saying its criminal investigation was still under way and it was therefore not able to disclose such information.
Reuters has not independently confirmed any of the SBU’s claims.
Reuters said on Friday: “We note the news today from the Ukrainian security services regarding the missile attack on August 24, 2024, on the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk, a civilian target more than 20 km from Russian-occupied territory.”
“The strike had devastating consequences, killing our safety adviser, Ryan Evans, and injuring members of our editorial team. We continue to seek more information about the attack. It is critically important for journalists to be able to report freely and safely,” the statement said.
Reuters declined to comment further on the allegation that its staff were deliberately targeted.
The SBU statement said Kim had been named a suspect under two articles of the Ukrainian criminal code: waging an aggressive war and violating the laws and customs of war.
“It was Kim who signed the directive and gave the combat order to fire on the hotel, where only civilians were staying,” it said.
Evans, a 38-year-old former British soldier who had worked as a safety adviser for Reuters since 2022, was killed instantly in the strike.
The SBU statement gave some details about how the strike had occurred, according to its investigation.
“To carry out the attack, the Russian colonel general involved one of his subordinate missile forces units,” the Ukrainian agency said, adding that the strike was carried out with an Iskander-M ballistic missile.
The SBU did not identify the specific unit.
Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey, a videographer for the news agency who was in a room across the corridor, was seriously wounded. Kyiv-based text correspondent Dan Peleschuk was also injured.
The remaining three members of the Reuters team escaped with minor cuts and scratches.
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