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05-Sep-19 China’s new digital payment infrastructure - face recognition - could make even QR codes seem old-fashioned. Customers simply pose in front of POS machines equipped with cameras to pay. Alipay will spend USD420 mn on the technology by 2022. [image: Asia Times]
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15-Apr-18 Gemalto, is supplying its Visa biometric contactless EMV bank card to areeba, a fintech company that provides payment solutions for banks, governments and merchants in the Middle East, introducing contactless biometric cards to the MENA region. [image: gemalto / arreba]
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10-Jan-18 Amid a wave of digital products flooding the Kuwaiti banking market, Gulf Bank has established itself as the national leader in innovation, with its groundbreaking biometric face recognition technology and numerous e-payment systems. [image: World Finance]
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05-Jan-18 Store owners in Japan may soon be able to accept payments using JCB's new palm scanning payment app. Advances in 'empty-hand payments', requiring neither phone nor wallet, could push Japan forward in the move away from cash. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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