NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 08/03/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) Americans lose $8.6 billion to credit card fraud, according to the Aite Group, and this number is expected to reach $10 billion by 2015, according to the Nilson Report.With 47% of the world–s credit card fraud happening in the United States, even though Americans only account for 24% of the total credit card volume it is a matter of high and pressing concern to fight this avalanche of losses.EMV chip cards are now bei
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/29/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME), the creator and developer of the biometric fingerprint activated credit and debit cards has successfully completed its first round of mass production of its fingerprint activated and verified debit and credit card.After years of research and development it is an exciting time for us to overcome the obstacles in mass production of our revolutionary card. It is one thing to produce a card like ours in the lab in our eng
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/21/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME), the creator and developer of the biometric fingerprint activated credit and debit cards is on schedule to have completed its first round of mass manufacturing by the end of July, 2015.This manufacturing round will allow us to put into the hands of financial institutions around the world, our ground breaking payments card said today SmartMetric–s President & CEO, Chaya Hendrick.Using the power of biometrics in a d
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/14/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME): SmartMetric, the creator and developer of the biometric fingerprint activated credit and debit cards, is now developing a contactless credit card that uses NFC radio frequency that is turned on only after a card holder–s fingerprint has been scanned and matched using the card–s built-in fingerprint scanner.Using the power of biometrics in a discreet and powerful way inside credit and debit cards provides a far great
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
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
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
CAMPBELL, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/08/15 — Bitglass, the Total Data Protection company, today announced that it has been granted a patent for its breakthrough searchable full-strength 256-bit AES encryption for cloud applications. The technology, covered by is immediately available in . Bitglass is the first and only solution in the market to achieve both full application functionality and full strength 256-bit AES encryption. The industry–s leading Cloud Access Security Broker enables enter
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
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
