BNP Paribas to charge €24 a year for biometric card

134 euros existing fee. Isn't that a bit too high. 

A nice new feature rollout though.

This is Visa Premier, so the fee may be justified by the benefits. 

@StavrosRaftopoulos + 1.

Visa Premier offers several benefits. 

https://banqo.fr/en/blog/top-8-benefits-visa-premier.html. 

For me, just the Travel Insurance is worth every bit of the €134 annual card fee. All other benefits are icing on the cake.

Fingerprint based contactless payments above usual limit is a very cool feature and well worth the extra €24 annual fee.

I agree - the headline alone misses the point that the consumer is already paying a fee for additional services already and €24 add is relatively small.

What would be interesting to know is will this be offered to all account holders for the same price?

Anything that removes the need for PIN and makes the POS transactions contract free (and therefore germ free) is a big push in the current environment.

By "all account holders", 

If you mean "all bank account holders", then surely no since it's a credit card feature.

If you mean "all credit card account holders", then also probably no since it's only a Visa Premier credit card feature.

I'd interpret the last sentence in the article to mean "it would be offered to all Visa Premier credit card customers for the said fee".