Fingerprint Cards (FING) Status Update summary

Strategic direction and market positioning

• Focus on leveraging core biometric assets and expanding into new areas, particularly cybersecurity, by building on existing strengths and partnerships.

• Vision remains centered on making users the key to everything, emphasizing secure, passwordless access to digital services.

• Expansion into cloud-based solutions and orchestration of identity signals to address broader cybersecurity challenges.

• Partnerships with Anonybit and SmartEye enhance cloud capabilities and introduce new biometric modalities, supporting multimodal authentication.

• Strategic move to offer both hardware (edge) and cloud (control) solutions to meet diverse customer needs.

Partnerships and product innovation

• Recent partnerships include Anonybit for cloud biometrics, SmartEye for in-cabin and multimodal biometrics, jNet for FIDO-ready solutions, and Infineon in the payments sector.

• O-Key platform enables customers to integrate and expand features, reducing friction and supporting mesh networking and AI-driven template optimization.

• Selective, value-driven approach to partnerships, focusing on both product development and customer sales channels.

• Emphasis on building, buying, or partnering based on strategic fit and return on investment.

Monetization and intellectual property

• Active monetization of a broad patent portfolio, with recent successes in IP enforcement and ongoing efforts to commercialize further.

• Working with a specialized partner to expand IP monetization opportunities, especially in content management.

• Up to 800 patents provide a strong foundation for future revenue streams.