Facial recognition specialist VisionLabs builds hardware and software for biometric identity verification, primarily for customers in the access control industry. The company recently announced expansion into payments with its Luna Platform software for face recognition and Luna POS terminal for large merchants, acquirers and banks. Luna POS terminals will accept payments initiated by cards as well as via facial recognition. An earlier generation facial-recognition-only terminal was deployed by Sberbank and Visa in Russia. Sberbank is the largest merchant acquirer in Europe. Mastercard was ...