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SmartMetric Says Recent EMV Chip Card Global Deployment Figures Show a Growth of Over 1 Billion in New Cards in 12 Months — Growth in EMV Cards 2013 to 2014, From 2.37 Billion to 3.4 Billion Cards Now in Use

By Publisher on July 13, 2015 Networking, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/13/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) says the adoption and growth in EMV chip cards globally is astonishing. According to figures released by the industry body EMVco, there are as of end of quarter 2014, now more than 3.4 billion EMV chip credit and debit cards in circulation. This is a massive 12 month increase over the previous year (2.37 billion) representing a growth rate of 43%.The 3.4 billion EMV chip credit and debit cards does not take into accoun

SmartMetric Says After All the Hype Over Mobile Payment the Reality Is Plastic Payments Cards Continue to Dominate – Mobile Payment Wallets Are on Only 13% of Phones and 76% of These Installed Wallets Are Never Used by Consumers

By Publisher on July 10, 2015 Internet, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/10/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — SmartMetric says the recent research conducted by Gallup Research shows that mobile wallets are failing in gaining mass market usage as an alternative payments platform to that of credit and debit cards. The recent research shows that only 13% of mobile phones have an installed payments digital wallet digital on their device. These means the vast majority, in fact 87% of mobile phones don–t have any type of digital

SmartMetric Has Commenced Production of Its Biometric Fingerprint Payments Card

By Publisher on July 9, 2015 Networking, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/09/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric, the creator and developer of the biometric activated payments card, has begun manufacturing."The manufacturing process has many moving parts. Because we have pushed the envelope on the scale and size of electronic components, as well as electronic assembly and even the plastic card manufacturing process, when we manufacture our cards we are in fact involved in a number of sub-manufacturing processes a

SmartMetric Brings the Power of Biometrics to the Credit and Debit Card as a Higher Level of Security Than the Hackable PIN Used on Payment Cards

By Publisher on July 7, 2015 Networking, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/07/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric in creating a fingerprint activated payments card has added biometrics as a better line of security at the point of transaction. Because SmartMetric has embedded a fully functional fingerprint reader inside a credit/debit card while using the industry standard EMV contact chip the SmartMetric fingerprint activated card works with standard point of sale payment card readers and ATMs.We use a person–s finger

SmartMetric Targets the Growing 3.4 Billion Issued Chip Card Market for Its Breakthrough Fingerprint Activated Biometric Credit and Debit Cards

By Publisher on July 6, 2015 Internet, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/06/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) As of the end of the 4th Quarter 2014 there are now over 3.42 Billion chip cards issued and in use globally. According to figures released by the industry body, EMVco. While the United States showed a negligible number of EMV Cards issued in 2013 this figure jumped to over 100m by the end of 2014. With October 1st 2015 being the deadline for retailers to convert across to EMV retail readers throughout the United States

SmartMetric Develops Its Own Miniature Battery That Fits Inside a Credit Card to Power Its In-Card Biometric Fingerprint Scanner Used to Authenticate the Card User

By Publisher on June 22, 2015 Internet, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 06/22/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric has developed its own super thin rechargeable battery to power its powerful fingerprint "in-card" reader. The highly thin battery is built into its ground breaking biometric secure credit and debit chip cards. Realising the need for the card to work and scan a person–s fingerprint prior to it being inserted into an ATM machine, SmartMetric has devoted a great deal of time in building its own tiny

SmartMetric EMV Biometric Activated Chip Card Designed to Be Interoperable With Existing Global Chip Card Payment Devices and ATMs

By Publisher on June 15, 2015 Internet, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 06/15/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) The SmartMetric fingerprint activated and transaction verified biometric payments card uses the Global Banking Industry standard EMV chip in its payments cards. This allows the SmartMetric biometric card to work with the existing Global payments card infrastructure and does not require an additional reading device to be used by Banks and Retailers. "The card is completely interoperable with existing Point Of Sale

SmartMetric on Schedule for Its Mass Production Release of Its Fingerprint Activated Biometric Payments Card at the End of July

By Publisher on June 10, 2015 Internet, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 06/10/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric, after completing a round of funding by private equity to fund the first mass production of its revolutionary fingerprint activated biometric payments card, is on schedule for its manufacturing release at the end of this July."We are extremely excited about the release of our card that we now will be able to put into the hands of financial institutions around the world," said SmartMetric–s Presid

Is It You Using Your Credit or Debit Card? With the SmartMetric In-Card Biometric Fingerprint Scanner Only You Can Activate and Use Your Card

By Publisher on June 8, 2015 Networking, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 06/08/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) With the non relenting onslaught of credit and debit card data theft leading to billions of dollars of losses annually the need for a stronger payments card security couldn–t be more compelling.SmartMetric, after years of research and development, created a credit and debit card that has a miniature powerful fingerprint reader that is used to scan the card user–s fingerprint prior to the cards payments chip being act

The SmartMetric Biometric Fingerprint Activated Credit and Debit Card Uses Your Fingerprint to Turn the Card on Rather Than Relying on Easily Hacked PIN Numbers

By Publisher on June 5, 2015 Internet, Picture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 06/05/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) – Reliance on PIN numbers and computer generated codes or tokens has proven vulnerable to data thieves that use the security weaknesses in the credit card payments system to steal billions of dollars annually. It is reported that over $14 billion was lost last year to credit card fraud, leaving not only the consumer vulnerable to their personal data being stolen but having to pay higher prices after retailers increase