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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

biometric-payments

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The Fingerprint That Cost $340 Million
Fintech · Enterprise · Hardware

The Fingerprint That Cost $340 Million

Pay By Touch made the wallet optional years before the smartphone did. Its $50 fingerprint reader worked; the harder problem was persuading enough people - and keeping a sprawling company alive long enough for habit to catch up.

biometric-payments · fingerprint-authenticationRead →
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Wink Wanted to Kill the Password. Then It Found the Payment Rails.
Fintech · Ai · Saas

Wink Wanted to Kill the Password. Then It Found the Payment Rails.

Wink began with a clever premise: any ordinary camera could become a checkout credential. Its 2025 merger with Phoenix Managed Networks turned that identity layer into a payments business with real rails, real distribution and a much harder question about trust.

biometric-payments · payment-orchestrationRead →
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Verifone
Fintech · Hardware · Enterprise

Verifone

The card reader on the counter is only the visible tip. Verifone is rebuilding its four-decade hardware franchise as a software-connected payments grid for merchants that need every channel, processor and checkout to behave like one system.

payment-terminals · payment-processingRead →