SmartMetric to Proceed With Mass Production of Fingerprint Activated Biometric Credit and ATM Card Early 2014

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Dec 2, 2013) - SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) -- Speaking today from New York, SmartMetric™ Inc. President & CEO Chaya Hendrick said the SmartMetric biometric fingerprint activated payments card will be available for quantity sales in the first quarter of 2014. She said the company has had to overcome a number of production issues in order produce the card in high volumes. And high volume production is absolutely necessary in order for a financial institution to proceed with the SmartMetric Biometric Card deployment.

The SmartMetric biometric card is designed to work with EMV chips and uses a match of a person's fingerprint that is stored inside the memory of the card in order to activate the contact or contactless EMV chip. EMV chip cards are used in the banking industry around the World and are now being deployed by the card companies in the United States. According to industry reports there are more than 1.5 Billion EMV cards in use around the World.

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