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In today’s newsletter we take a look at mobile payments, computer biometrics and card chip transactions. PayPal has partnered with Lenovo, Intel and Synaptics to bring PCs into the biometric age.

Companies in the US are trying to make chip card adoption as appealing as possible and Square has become the latest company to release an update that speeds up transactions. Meanwhile, fresh from its $4.5bn IPO, Nordic payments processor Nets has picked Spire as its partner to help with the physical roll out of mobile payments for Dankort customers.

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It seems laptops are about to catch the biometric fever as PayPal, Intel, Lenovo and Synaptics are collaborating to introduce FIDO-enabled embedded fingerprint solution to PCs.

Fresh from its $4.5bn IPO, Nordic payments processor Nets has picked Spire as its partner to help with the physical roll out of mobile payments for Dankort customers.

Square has introduced a new update to its contactless and chip readers that reduces transaction speed to 4.2 seconds.

Digital payments giant ACI Worldwide is teaming up with VocaLink for real-time payments infrastructure.