LONDON—British bank NatWest is testing the use of a new NFC payment card with a built-in fingerprint scanner.
The trial, which will include 200 customers when it begins in mid-April, will allow its participants to make contactless NFC payments without needing to input a PIN or offer a signature, The Verge reported.
The standard £30 limit for contactless payments will not apply when the fingerprint is used. The fingerprint data is stored locally on the card, meaning there's no security information for a hacker to be able to steal from a bank's central database.
“Biometric authentication has become a standard component of NFC mobile payments, but despite credit card trials having been conducted since 2015, they've failed to find a home on traditional bank cards,” The Verge said.