OCBC to roll out face verification in eight Singapore ATMs

The financial institution will prolong the know-how to all of its ATMs in Singapore progressively.

OCBC will likely be introducing facial recognition know-how on eight of its ATMs in Singapore beginning 19 March, an announcement learn.

The financial institution will prolong face verification for money withdrawals to all OCBC ATMs in Singapore progressively. This comes after the rollout of QR code money withdrawals in July 2019.

OCBC is the primary to faucet Singapore’s Nationwide Digital Identification infrastructure, SingPass Face Verification, to securely confirm clients for banking transactions at ATMs. The face verification course of is embedded with security measures to forestall fraud, together with liveness-detection know-how that detects and blocks using pictures, movies, or masks through the verification course of.

To make use of face verification at an OCBC ATM, clients should choose the ATM service they need earlier than coming into their NRIC quantity on the display screen. They'll then be prompted to place their face inside a body on the display screen, while a web-enabled digicam takes a scan of their face and verifies in actual time the scanned picture in opposition to the nationwide biometric database.

As soon as the facial scan is verified, the client can proceed with their transaction.

Face verification will likely be prolonged to different ATM transactions similar to money deposits, funds transfers to different banks, cashcard top-ups and bank card invoice funds from subsequent yr.