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Iraqi credit-card company lobbying on biometric payments

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 9, 2016

The company behind Iraq's national credit card is lobbying the federal government on biometric payments.

Now the country's largest financial institution, International Smart Card was formed by Iraq's two largest state-owned banks in 2007. The company's flagship "QiCard" uses biometrics to identify users — impressive, given that the technology, which uses unique physical identifiers to verify indentify, hasn't yet caught on among credit and debit card companies in the US.

Law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is handling the lobbying work through Markez Inc., an Iraq-focused construction-management company based in Silver Spring, Md.