US-based Eazy Financial Services has plans to launch the country's first biometric payment network using Authentic, a transaction-processing platform developed by Bahrain computer hardware company NCR. Customers can register their fingerprint at any branch connected to Eazy's network, and use this instead of a card to make a transaction at cash machines or points of sale. Authentic is able to "accept any type of transaction from any device, source or system, authorise and authenticate it, and route it to any destination," according to NCR. Following this initial phase, NCR will be assisting Eazy in creating a payment system to serve financial institutions across the Middle East.
Bahrain-based Eazy Financial Services has plans to launch the country's first biometric payment network using Authentic, a transaction-processing platform developed by US computer hardware company NCR. Customers can register their fingerprint at any branch connected to Eazy's network, and use this instead of a card to make a transaction at cash machines or points of sale. Authentic is able to "accept any type of transaction from any device, source or system, authorise and authenticate it, and route it to any destination," according to NCR. Following this initial phase, NCR will be assisting Eazy in creating a payment system to serve financial institutions across the Middle East.