Biometric payment systems beginning to catch on in US

The touch of a finger may replace the swipe of a credit card in a new payments systems that backers say is growing rapidly in the US and has potential around the world.
Some retailers and consumers are giving rave reviews for the new system, in which customers use a finger scan to authorize payments from bank accounts.

Rival Pay By Touch, based in San Francisco, has signed up major retailers including the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain and is in talks with 'the top 100' US retailers and Britain's Co-op retail group, said marketing director Shannon Riordan.

[Taipei Times]