From finger vein biometric recognition at ATMs and multimodal biometric screening systems at airports; biometric screening that uses facial recognition to identify travelers, to Finger vein scanners, many industry verticals are adopting biometric technologies in the Middle East because of increasing security and authentication concerns in the region.
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- Isbank, Turkey's largest
commercial bank, has deployed finger vein biometric recognition at ATMs. The
bank has installed nearly 3,400 finger vein scanners in 2,400 ATMs across 1,000
branches in the country
- Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi
Bank, an Islamic financial institution, has deployed biometrics at its ATMs
across its branches
- UAE's Ministry of Interior,
has deployed multimodal biometric screening systems at airports
- Egypt's Cairo International
Airport implements biometric screening that uses facial recognition to identify
travellers
- Finger vein scanners offered
by Hitachi are being deployed in the healthcare sector in Turkey across several
private hospitals and dialysis centers to identify patients efficiently.
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