$SMME The largest credit card issuing Banks in the USA distribute their credit cards to new card holders via the mail. One method of inserting the card user's fingerprint into a card is to have them come into a bank branch and use a specialized fingerprint reader that copies the person's fingerprint and then stores it inside the new card. For most large scale credit card issuers this is not efficient and in the case of some not even possible given their limited branch footprint.

"Having a simple and yet highly secure method for a card user to first install their fingerprint inside of the card, that would also work with existing large scale credit card issuers, was of the utmost importance to the electronic design team at SmartMetric," said SmartMetric President and CEO, Chaya Hendrick.