KEY POINTS
  • Mastercard on Tuesday launched a program that allows retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning.
  • Users can authenticate a payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of swiping their card.
  • The technology could one day help with the development of payments infrastructure for the "metaverse," an executive said.

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Mastercard's biometric checkout technology lets users pay by scanning their face or palm.

Mastercard is piloting new technology that lets shoppers make payments with just their face or hand at the checkout point.

The company on Tuesday launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At checkout, users will be able to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of swiping their card.

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