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Financial ServicesSanta Catarina, Brazil11-50 Employees
Payface is a financial services company that provides a payment system for physical retailers leveraging facial recognition to streamline identification and transactions. Its offering aims to make the process of paying as seamless and pleasant as possible for customers in brick-and-mortar retail environments. Based in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, the company serves the local market and operates with a focus on facial biometrics to facilitate payments and authentication. Payface has pursued strategic growth through acquisitions and partnerships, including acquiring Smilego in 2023 and collaborating with Mastercard, Fujitsu, and NEC in joint initiatives announced in 2022. A recent development highlighted in industry coverage is the launch of a new fraud-prevention SDK, Fortface, introduced in late 2025 to enhance biometric authentication, liveness detection, and protection against injection attacks. The company positions itself within the financial services and payments technology landscape, differentiating itself through its facial recognition approach for in-person retail transactions.