Biometrics are connecting with payment credentials, whether through numberless credit cards and banking apps or passkeys, as the concrete steps towards linking digital identity and payment systems shows up as a major theme in the week’s most-read stories on Biometric Update. Mastercard announced it will ditch the familiar credit card number in favor of on-device biometrics and tokenization, while everyone in digital wallets, from the EUDI Wallet Consortium to Fime and Mattr to Apple is looking at how to bring together identity and payments, and Visa arguing for the role of passkeys in a converged digital ID and payments ecosystem.
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