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Abstract : In this study, the authors propose a multimodal biometric system by combining the finger knuckle and finger vein images at feature-level fusion using fractional firefly (FFF) optimisation. Biometric characteristics, like finger knuckle and finger vein are unique and secure. Initially, the features are extracted from the finger knuckle and finger vein images using repeated line tracking method. Then, a newly developed method of feature-level fusion using FFF optimisation is used. This method is utilised to find out the optimal weight score to fuse the extracted feature sets of finger knuckle and finger vein images. Thus, the recognition is carried out by the fused feature set using layered k-SVM (k-support vector machine) which is newly developed by combining the layered SVM classifier and k-neural network classifier. The experimental results are evaluated and the performance is analysed with false acceptance ratio, false rejection ratio and accuracy. The outcome of the proposed FFF optimisation system obtains a higher accuracy of 96%.