BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA--(Marketwire - Nov 22, 2011) - SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCBB: SMME) -- President & CEO of SmartMetric, Inc., C. Hendrick, said today that SmartMetric, Inc., using its extensive engineering expertise in the miniaturizing of fingerprint scanning electronics, has its eye set on a bringing fingerprint authentication to mobile transactions. The President & CEO of SmartMetric, Inc, C. Hendrick, said that the company is excited by the application of its miniature fingerprint scanning technology to the mobile payments field offering a 100% verification and authentication process connected to mobile devices. SmartMetric, Inc. believes the biggest issue involving the acceptance and trust of mobile payments is security. The company is of the view that in adding fingerprint verification and authentication to mobile payment transactions will overcome this hurdle to the consumer confidence in mobile transactions and will propel a significant increase in the adoption of mobile devices being used to complete mobile transactions.

About SmartMetric:

The SmartMetric, Biometric Card Computer provides powerful computing with large memory capacity in a revolutionary size that has taken more than 10 years of research and development. Using the latest in sub micro technology electronics, the company has achieved a level of miniaturization that allows it to release a solution of portable computing power that, combined with SmartMetric's biometric fingerprint in-card scanning technology, is so revolutionary it will change the way business is done and information is handled across a broad range of industries.

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