(FILES) A person makes a test-payment using a Thales biometric payment card authentication, which has lighting of encapsulated LED in banking card when making payment, during a presentation at the headquarters of French defence giant Thales in Gemenos on September 18, 2024. PVC plates, spools of gold wire and thousands of chips scattered on a disk in the evening, so many personalized bank cards ready to go the next morning: this is the tour de force performed every night at the Thales factory in Gémenos, Bouches-du-Rhone. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)