Japan’s largest card issuer conducted a proof of concept of an EMV-compliant, dual-interface (contact/contactless) fingerprint biometric card in the fourth quarter of 2017 and will begin a pilot test later this month. The JCB Biometrics Card is manufactured by Idemia (formerly Oberthur/Morpho). Toppan Printing is handling the card personalization. The pilot involves JCB employees. When users want to buy something, they touch the fingerprint sensor on the card’s lower right corner to trigger immediate verification they are the valid cardholder against a template of their finger stored on...