Standard Chartered Bank is introducing fingerprint and voice ID technology across Asia, Africa and the Middle east, covering some five million customers of the bank. The bank said clients in 15 markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East will soon be able to access account balances, cards and investments on smartphones and iPads using Apple’s TouchID fingerprint recognition technology. It will also be enabled on Samsung Android devices with fingerprint sensors. The facility is already live in Singapore, the UAE and India. The bank will now launch it in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, Pakistan and the African markets of Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe by the end of 2016. The bank will also introduce voice biometric technology for phone banking services for clients in India and the UAE by end of this year, before rolling it out in more markets next year.
