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The enrollment kit simply provides the necessary power to enable the card to turn on and register the fingerprint from the user, as part of the enrollment process. There is nothing connecting the kit specifically to the cardholder. While any user who intercepts the enrollment kit and the biometric card can enroll his/ her fingerprint, s/he cannot use the card as the card will be activated in the first transaction with the PIN code. The PIN code will be sent to the rightful cardholder in a separate channel and/or time.
Does the enrolled finger need to be used when using the card?
Zwipe Access relies on a single silicon design. The whole biometric cardholder identification process (fingerprint capture, processing, extraction, storage and comparison) is performed within the Zwipe Access card. This means that the cardholder’s biometric data never leaves the card providing increased data privacy to the cardholder.
For “contact payments”, will consumers use their fingerprint or will they use their PIN code as in standard dual-interface payment cards?
The card issuer may set biometric cardholder verification as the primary cardholder verification method for contact-based payments (as would be the case for contactless payments). In this case, offline or online PIN may be used as fallback.
For which product forms and markets does Zwipe provide solutions?
Zwipe's biometric platform can be embedded in a wide range of form factors. Our current focus is on card and wearable products within payments, access control and ID.