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South Africa: Home Affairs, SABRIC join forces against identity theft

Thursday 10 November 2011 14:37 CET | News

Africa’s Home Affairs Department and the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) have joined forces to introduce an online fingerprint verification system.

As part of the deal, via the online fingerprint verification system, banks will be able to verify the identity of potential and current clients using their fingerprints. The verification will be done before customers complete the transaction in order to prevent fraud, corruption and identity theft.

Until now, there are five banks which have agreed to implement the new system, namely ABSA, African Bank, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank. Each bank has different levels of implementation.
 


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Keywords: Home Affairs, SABRIC, fingerprint verification system, e-identity, identity theft
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