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ABN Amro banking customers can confirm ID with a selfie

Thursday 24 December 2015 07:56 CET | News

Netherlands-based ABN Amro Bank is letting prospective customers sign up for a new account with their smartphone, according to biometricupdate.com.

For initial identification confirmation, the bank will request photos of the consumer’s identity card or passport, a selfie portrait picture, and an iDeal payment transfer of EUR 0.01. After registering, the banks mobile app clients can confirm their identity with a selfie. Recenty, the bank has been putting the new method to the test within its Usability Lab. A pilot was also launched in six ABN Amro offices across the Netherlands prior to full-scale release.

ABN Amro’s mobile banking app is currently used 57 million times a month.


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