There is a bit of Infineon in biometric payment cards

Infineon and Fingerprints collaborate on the all-in-one SECORA™ Pay Bio solution, which will take biometric payment cards to a new level

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Infineon e Fingerprint Cards have signed a joint agreement to develop and commercialize a plug-and-play turnkey solution for biometric payment smart cards. The goal of the collaboration is to make the production of biometric smart cards as simple and easy as producing a standard dual-interface payment card.

Biometric cardholders verify their identity by simply placing a finger on the card sensor and tapping the card on the terminal. In this way, no PIN code is needed when paying at a POS terminal, and the payment experience itself is more convenient and hygienic. Every transaction, starting from the first euro, will be authorized by second-level authentication, drastically reducing abuse in case of lost or stolen cards.

This complete turnkey SECORA™ Pay Bio solution will include both Fingerprints' FPC1323 sensor with its biometric software algorithm and Infineon's upcoming SLC39B Secure Element.

SLC39B is Infineon's advanced crypto-processor system-on-chip (SoC) with an integrated power source and large memory, promising best-in-class contactless performance.

The solution will come with a pre-certified Java Cardoperating system, which includes Mastercard and Visa bio-applets. With the development of Infineon's innovative Biometric Coil on Module (BCoM) package based on inductive coupling technology, the overall biometric smart card production process will be greatly simplified and the bill of materials significantly reduced. This will enable card manufacturers to use existing card production equipment to produce biometric payment cards and enable scalable and efficient volume production.

"Our collaboration with Infineon will further push the boundaries of biometric payment card manufacturing with new and innovative product designs for the mass market," said Michel Roig, president of Payment & Access at Fingerprints. "By combining and integrating the core components, Fingerprints' FPC1323 and Infineon's SLC39B on-chip security system, into a single system package, we will deliver proven biometric performance executed on a single chip. This innovative and fully integrated solution will simplify, downsize production and enable worry-free payments for consumers."

"The cooperation agreement with our strategic partner Fingerprints is an important milestone in enabling easy-to-manufacture, cost-effective and highly scalable biometric cards simply with existing tools without additional CAPEX for our customers," said Tolgahan Yildiz, Head of Payment Solutions at Infineon's Connected Secure Systems division. "This milestone also ratifies Infineon's true commitment to biometric smart cards, an area in which we will continue to work and innovate with our partners to improve the user experience."


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