A finger vein-based biometric system that would be used in place of bank cards, smartphones and smartwatches for purchases is due to be launched in the UK and Ireland this year.Staff from the UK-based FingoPay, which has spent the last year testing with Worldpay (in the business HQ's restaurant) and in the Visa Europe Collab incubator, told the Memo about the planned launch.This summer FingoPay will launch to the public at Proud, a bar in Camden, London, and further venues in Cork, Ireland, said Sthaler CEO Nick Dryden.Sthaler initially demonstrated the concept at Festival No 6 in Wales.”Festival-goers were vulnerable,” he explained to the magazine. “When you ran out of that cash, the experience to get more money was usually terrible, resulting in queues at the cash machine, queues to buy tokens, then more queues to get a drink.””The system we built enables you to link a debit or credit card directly to your biometric identity and just use your finger to payߪ people love using it!”

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