Clover and Wink Partner to Bring Identity-Based Biometric Payments to SMB Merchants

12 January 2026 | Monday | News

Fiserv’s Clover integrates Wink’s face and palm biometric technology to deliver faster, more secure, and personalized checkout experiences, initially launching across QSRs, sports venues, and retail with broader rollout planned through 2026.
Picture Courtesy | Public Domain

Picture Courtesy | Public Domain

 

Clover, the all-in-one commerce solution from Fiserv, a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, announced a collaboration with Wink, the multimodal biometric identity and payments platform. This first-of-its-kind collaboration integrates Wink’s award-winning face and palm payments technology with advanced identity and intelligence layers directly into the Clover platform. The integration marks a significant transition to identity-based payments with enhanced security and customer checkout experience.

The new solution will enable Clover merchants to offer the fastest, most personalized checkout experience while helping to secure every transaction with AI-powered biometrics. Unifying identity, payment, and loyalty allows merchants to offer brand new checkout experiences that shorten checkout times, reduce fraud exposure, and increase repeat visits without adding operational complexity. By leveraging a secure token vault to manage biometric profiles, Clover further enhances transaction security and helps ensure that sensitive data is not stored alongside payment credentials. This integration will initially be available to QSRs, sports venues and retailers, with continued rollout throughout 2026.

“The future of commerce is the unification of payment and identity,” said Sanjay Saraf, SVP and Global Chief Product Officer, Merchant Solutions at Fiserv. “By embedding Wink’s leading biometric security and intelligence directly into the Clover platform, we’re making cutting-edge technology simple, secure, and accessible for Main Street SMB businesses, helping them to deliver exceptional experiences and unlock new opportunities for growth.”

Consumers will benefit from the convenience of biometric recognition—including contactless palm, face, and voice authentication—for frictionless interactions that are private, compliant, and built to meet the strict standards for payments, data protection, and regulatory frameworks. This technology eliminates the need for physical cards or devices, making transactions faster and more secure than ever before.

Additional benefits of this collaboration include:

  • Immediate value for merchants and partners. Clover is enabled to deliver biometric checkout, loyalty enrollment, and age-restricted commerce that requires no IDs, no manual checks and no staff intervention, helping reduce line friction, labor dependency, and abandonment at checkout.
  • Unified, Identity-Driven Commerce. Clover and its merchant partners can connect in-store, mobile, and online experiences through a single biometric identity—linking payments, loyalty, and instant age verification into one seamless, secure moment.
  • Frictionless Enablement. Wink can be activated through the full Clover device family (including Station Duo, Mini, Flex, and Clover Kiosk) with no hardware changes and minimal integration lift.
  • Fraud Prevention. By utilizing Wink’s advanced AI-based human presence assurance technology, Clover merchants can reduce fraudulent transactions while offering more personalized, fast and low-friction checkout experiences.

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