Cleverbridge completes France's first Passkey-authenticated agentic purchase, on a Revolut card
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Cleverbridge completed France's first Passkey-authenticated agentic purchase in a live checkout, using a Revolut card, in a pilot announced earlier this month with Visa and Revolut. The announcement frames this as a milestone for Passkey-authenticated agentic payments in France. Separately, Revolut is trialing facial-recognition payments called Pay with Smile at London coffee shops (Kiss the Hippo locations in Bloomsbury, Chelsea and Soho), letting UK customers pay by looking into a camera via Revolut Register, with merchants charged no processing fee on face payments to help independent venues.
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Biometric and passwordless payments are being trialed live now by Revolut, Visa and Cleverbridge, moving authentication experiments from lab to checkout.
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If Revolut thinks customers will happily swap PINs and phones for a smile and a Passkey, it may be underestimating privacy fatigue and merchant complexity.
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- Cleverbridge completes France's first Passkey-authenticated agentic purchase, on a Revolut card
Cleverbridge, a managed global commerce platform for software and technology companies, today announced that it completed France's first Passkey-authenticated agentic payment in a live checkout, in a pilot with Visa and Revolut announced earlier this month.
FinextraSep 24 - Revolut asks Brits to ditch cards for a smile at the till
Revolut will need to convince consumers that paying with their face is as trustworthy as it is convenient. Revolut has launched a facial recognition payment system, meaning smiling more could be the answer to checkout friction. Called Revolut Pay with Smile, the biometric payment system enables customers to pay for everyday purchases without a phone […]
Payment ExpertSep 24 - Revolut trials Pay with Smile
Revolut customers can now pay for coffee with their face at three Kiss the Hippo cafés in Bloomsbury, Chelsea and Soho.
FinextraSep 24
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