Thales and Handsome offer Voice Payment Card for the visually impaired - IBS Intelligence

By Gloria Methri

French exertion company Thales has partnered with FinTech Handsome to make a outgo solution that protects visually impaired radical from fraud. The innovative paper vocalises the magnitude of each transaction earlier its validation.

To payment from it, Voice Payment Card users person to instal an app connected their mobile phone, which is uniquely associated with their card. Each clip users marque a payment; the app vocalises the magnitude of the transaction earlier letting users validate it with their concealed code.

The Thales Voice Payment Card works arsenic a connected instrumentality that gets the magnitude from the constituent of income terminal and communicates it to the app via Bluetooth. The lawsuit tin past perceive the accusation either done the phone’s talker oregon done earphones.

First revealed in September, the exertion has already been certified by Visa and Mastercard. This solution volition beryllium commercialized soon by respective banks, convinced of its interest. The purpose is to bring autonomy and convenience to visually impaired radical by protecting them against fraud oregon mistakes made astatine shops.

Bertrand Knopf, Vice President Banking and Payment Services astatine Thales said, “We cognize innovation has the imaginable to lick a multitude of issues. That is why, with the enactment of Handsome and based connected Thales’ cardinal expertise successful processing unafraid and convenient outgo solutions, we decided to tackle concerns faced by unsighted and visually impaired people. Since then, it appeared that the solution has proven to beryllium utile for different disabilities. All successful all, we are thrilled to spot our innovations lend to gathering much sustainable and liable outgo solutions.”

Thales, a planetary tech firm, provides its customers successful defense, aeronautics, space, transport, and integer individuality and information domains with solutions, services, and products. Handsome is simply a French Fintech, specialised successful inclusive solutions for radical with disabilities.

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