Gulf Bank Kuwait has partnered with biometrics and identity assurance software company Daon to providing biometric authentication with its new mobile banking application. Daon’s IdentityX® Platform will enable Gulf Bank Kuwait’s customers to seamlessly authenticate using their face and fingerprint to quickly and easily assert their identity online across multiple channels. Daon’s IdentityX Platform provides fingerprint, face and voice recognition, along with other authentication factors, which will provide convenient, fast, secure authentication. Bank’s CEO César González-Bueno digital banking is important to the bank’s customers and the bank wanted to make it convenient and simple for them to conduct their banking transactions with the new mobile banking app. By working with Daon, the bank is able to leverage cutting-edge technology with global best practices to provide our customers with an enhanced mobile banking experience, he said. Daon CEO Tom Grissen said convenient and secure authentication has become critical in today’s digital economy. He said there is tremendous opportunity for banks to leverage the power of biometrics to improve their customer experience.