Sberbank started to offer customers the “pass” samples of biometric data in a mobile application “Sberbank Online”. This was told in the press service of the Bank told reporters.
The Bank representative said: “This consent allows you to quickly and securely verify your identity when calling our contact centre, and in the future to use other biometric technologies in service in the Bank”.
Biometric identification of customers came from some Russian banks from June 2018, such as Mail, Bank, Sovcombank, Tinkoff, Alfa Bank and Gazprombank. It is planned that by the end of the year biometrics should appear in 4,000 offices of credit institutions and the entire system will be deployed by the end of 2019.