Biometric Market in Middle East



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. 


Thanks to Research and Markets, DigitalEcono can recall the momentums listed below:
 
- 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.

Key vendors
  • Cross Match Technologies
  • M2SYS Technology
  • NEC
  • Nuance
  • Safran