All of this week’s top stories from Mobile ID World are in some way related to commerce and payments, while a fifth entry is a blast from the past.
On the financial side of things, this week brought Samsung’s announcement of Samsung Money by SoFi, its answer to the Apple Card. It’s essentially a virtual debit account, designed to operate as part of the Samsung Pay mobile payments platform:
Samsung Developing Debit Card for Mobile Payments Platform
The week also brought a prediction from Thales that the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate mainstream adoption of contactless payment solutions – which is good news for the many organizations racing to get new biometric payment cards to market:
Thales Forecasts Rise of Biometric Payment Cards
Speaking of biometric payment cards, one of the major biometrics specialists involved in this space is Fingerprint Cards. The company got a lot of attention this week with the news that its Board of Directors has decided to move forward with a share buyback program:
FPC Discloses Important Developments at Annual General Meeting
Readers also proved interested in Visa’s announcement that 28 new partners are going to join its Visa Token Service as “Credential-On-File” token requestors, marking a considerable expansion of the digital payments security service:
Visa Announces 28 More Partners for Visa Token Service
Finally, for reasons that are likely understood only by hardcore sneakerheads, this week saw a surge in popularity for a 2016 article about biometric payment authorizations on Nike’s SNKRS mobile app:
Nike SNKRS App Enables Biometric Checkout
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