Verifone named Best in Class by Javelin for its Biometric Identity and Payment Platform for second straight year
Executive Summary
Scorecard honors Verifone’s integrated platform for enabling reusable biometric identity across participating merchants;
Platform uses unique physical characteristics — such as facial features or the vein map in your hand — to verify identity before authorizing access;
It’s offered as a retrofit add-on, integration into multiple POS brands, or via Verifone’s biometric-enabled POS Victa terminals
NEW YORK, Nov 10, 2026 — For the second consecutive year, Verifone, a global leader in payments and commerce technologies, was named Best in Class for Biometric Identity and Payment Platform in Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2026 Emerging Biometric Authentication at the Point of Sale Scorecard, which recognized Verifone’s platform for letting consumers enroll once and pay with a glance at any participating merchant.
"Every advance in checkout has asked shoppers to bring something extra: a card, a phone, a password. Biometrics removes that step,” said Amarinder Bansal, Senior Vice President, Global Products at Verifone. “Being named Best in Class for a second consecutive year confirms that a shopper’s identity can travel with them from store to store, securely and with their consent.”
The Verifone biometric platform uses unique physical characteristics, such as facial features or the vein map in your hand, to verify identity before authorizing a payment.
Merchants can adopt the platform three ways:
- as a retrofit add-on for existing payment devices, including qualified non-Verifone terminals;
- through Verifone SDKs and APIs that build biometrics into multiple POS brands; and
- on select Verifone Victa devices, which combine biometrics with card (magstripe and EMV contactless), tap-to-pay, mobile wallets, QR codes and pay by bank.
Shoppers opt in to use Verifone biometrics. The platform does not scan passively. Liveness detection guards against spoofing and deep fakes while a standard card payment method serves when a scan fails. Verifone does not hold the biometric data; the organization where the shopper enrolled does. The platform adheres to global security and privacy requirements, including PCI, GDPR, ISO/IEC 19794 and 30107, and FIDO Alliance principles.
The Javelin scorecard
The Javelin scorecard assesses the emerging market for biometric authentication at the point of sale and identifies three pillars in this emerging technology, each with its own Best in Class vendor: End-to-End Solutions, Biometric Identity and Payment Platform, and Biometric Authentication as a Service.
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