Pin numbers soon to be irrelevant for Japanese banks
(19 April 2018 – Japan) JCB Co., is set to conduct a pilot trial in Japan of its contactless payment solution using fingerprint authentication.
JCB Biometrics Card will store fingerprint records on the card itself meaning merchants will not need any further equipment in order to be able to accept payment using the fingerprint as authentication.
The pilot trial will issue the JCB Biometric Card to JCB employees from April. Once card users have recorded their fingerprints using a smartphone or tablet app, they can make purchases via fingerprint authentication at any merchant accepting JCB Contactless payments.
“With the new JCB Biometrics Card, strict security is upheld with fingerprint authentication for any payment method, while maintaining efficiency and speedy,” a press release issued on the trial stated.
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