Savings, Not Expense, The Real Cost Issue, Say CUs.(usage of biometric technologies by credit...

Setting aside other issues for a moment, such as member acceptance, for credit unions one big roadblock to adopting biometric technologies has been cost.

Yet those credit unions that are using the technology, which identifies a member according to a feature such as fingerprint or iris scan, claim biometric technology is not cost-prohibitive and that more CUs ought to take advantage of what's available.

In fact, say those interviewed by The Credit Union Journal, the relative affordability of biometric kiosks is paired with other built-in benefits, such as mem