NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/21/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — SmartMetric is in advanced stages for releasing its new biometric-activated and user-validated EMV payments card in both the United States and throughout the European Union.The company is however not stopping with these Western countries. Approaches from financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region will see SmartMetric enter substantial high growth markets throughout Asia within a short time frame following its
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/20/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric announced today that it is on track with its time frame for manufacturing release of its fingerprint activated and user verified biometric payments card. It is now expected that the first product release will be within the next 60 days.The company is already receiving approaches from Financial Institutions from around the world who are interested in the technology as a means to mitigate card fraud while at
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/18/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — SmartMetric, the creator of a fully functional biometric fingerprint reader that sits inside a credit or debit card says that the massive increase in financial losses due to credit card and account takeover fraud show the need for better and stronger identity and payments card security.A recently published report, titled, The True Cost Of Fraud, by LexisNexis reveals a huge increase in credit card fraud rates. For 2
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/12/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric, the creator of a fully functional biometric fingerprint reader that sits inside a credit or debit card says that it–s miniaturised in card electronics has turned the humble payments card into a powerful computing device in its own right.Using a powerful Cortex processor similar to what is found in today–s smart phones, SmartMetric has successfully added Gigabytes of memory storage along with a powerful p
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/11/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME): EMVCo, the chip card standards body, reported 3.4 billion EMV cards in global circulation 06 May 2015.By the end of 2014, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation rose by 1 billion, up 43%, to 3.4 billion, from 2.37 billion in Q4 2013.Cards remain the dominant platform for payments globally as they represent the only payments platform accepted across retail stores globally while also working with the existing AT
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/07/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) Available now for viewing on the SmartMetric website is a new product video showing how simple to use the SmartMetric fingerprint activated payments card is. Using the power of the SmartMetric developed and engineered miniature fingerprint scanner embedded inside the card, SmartMetric brings the security and power of biometric identity validation to the credit and debit card.To view the new fingerprint activated paymen
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/05/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — Based on experience following the adoption EMV Chip & PIN payment cards in Europe, the United States needs to brace itself for a massive uptick in online fraud or what is called in the industry, CNP (Card Not Present) fraud.Given the heightened security of chip cards in retail sales and ATM transactions the European experience showed that the criminal focus shifted to the less secure and next weakest point. That
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/01/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric announces that it is now purchasing electronic components for its first mass production manufacturing of advanced security biometrics payments card powered by the SmartMetricSmart metric in card miniature biometric fingerprint scanner.Using the power of biometrics, SmartMetric has been able to achieve an amazing level of electronics miniaturisation, having built a complete finger print scanner with a power
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 04/27/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric announces that it is now in a position to move forward into mass production of its advanced secure biometric fingerprint activated chip payment cards. This is following recent private equity funding received by the company that has enabled SmartMetric to proceed to this exciting stage of its development.Lead times for some critical components are being finalised but it is expected that production will be st
