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
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
DALLAS, TX — (Marketwired) — 06/25/15 — Merchant Resources, , compares its credit card merchant services to those of Costco Merchant Services, Square Reader, Wells Fargo Merchant Services, and Bank of America Merchant Services.Merchant Resources called the 1-800 listed on each of the above credit card merchant services and discovered a variety of differences outlined below:-CostcoBase Retail Visa/MC rate @ 1.38% and 19 centsRewards Cards Visa/MC rate @ 1.99% and 19 centsBusiness Cards Visa/M
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
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
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
