Banks to pilot biometric payment cards in India, Poland, Iraq, Mexico, Lebanon and Egypt • NFCW

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By Tom Phillips ^[2] • 5 January 2022 • Updated 5 January 2022 • nfcw.com ^[3]

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Banks in India, Poland, Iraq, Mexico, Lebanon and Egypt are among those set to trial biometric payment cards that enable customers to authenticate contactless payments with their fingerprints.

Bank Pocztowy ^[4] in Poland began offering its corporate customers a biometric payment card in December with a view to expanding the pilot to other business account holders this year, while Indian payment services provider Easy Pay ^[5] is to trial its biometric card before a commercial rollout later in 2022.

Iraq’s International Network for Cards and Digital Payment Services ^[6] (INC) is also to trial a biometric-enabled version of its Neo Visa card as well as offer biometric payments cards to client banks in the Iraqi market, with card payment services providers ForzaCard ^[7] in Mexico, Areeba ^[8] in Lebanon and Masria Digital Payments ^[9] in Egypt also announcing they are to make biometric cards available to their customers and client banks.

The trials in India, Iraq, Mexico, Lebanon and Egypt follow a series of deals signed by the

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