Visa Launches Payment Passkey in India, Pushing Checkout Beyond OTPs
Visa's Payment Passkey lets shoppers authenticate card payments via fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of OTPs. India is the world's most tokenised online card market, with nearly 500 million Visa tokens live, sharpening merchant checkout security amid the AI boom.
Visa launched its Payment Passkey solution in India, enabling card payment authentication via fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of OTPs. India is the world's most tokenised market for online card payments, supporting merchant checkout security.
Why this matters
Reinforces Visa's India push: after making India the world's most tokenised online card market and mapping affluent spending tiers, Payment Passkey moves checkout beyond OTP toward biometric authentication.
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