LONDON—The use of biometric authentication with payment cards continues to increase.
Now Mastercard, which has been leading the push for biometric plastic, is holding talks with banks in the U.K. about bringing biometric payment cards to market, CNBC said.
The firm has been testing cards with in-built fingerprint scanners, which are used to verify customers' identities. This is intended to replace the use of passwords and speed-up the process of making payments online and contactless transactions in-store, CNBC noted.