Qatar's QNB rolls out biometric payments acceptance tool for merchants - Electronic Payments International

Qatar-based fiscal services steadfast QNB Group has introduced a caller biometric payments acceptance tool for its merchants crossed the country.

Developed by PopID utilizing its proprietary facial verification technology, the solution leverages QNB’s acceptance network.

The facial payments solution is besides supported by Visa’s tokenisation offerings.  

It allows consumers to verify payments against their purchases via facial verification. The solution does not necessitate the usage of a carnal paper oregon mobile telephone erstwhile the preliminary enrolment is concluded.

For completing the one-time sign-up process, users are required to instrumentality a selfie of their look connected their smartphones and past participate their telephone fig and paper details to make their profiles.

After that, the solution tokenises the paper fig and safely connects it to the facial biometric template.

Using the tool, merchants tin supply their customers with in-store sign-up done a QR code.

QNB Group elder enforcement VP of radical retail banking Adel al-Malki said: “As the outgo scenery evolves, QNB is ever astatine the forefront of this evolution, and perpetually consenting to beryllium an aboriginal adopter of innovative technologies that thrust frictionless and enhanced outgo acquisition – putting our customers and merchants acquisition astatine the centre of everything we do.

“Being the ‘first successful Qatar’ successful different innovation that augments the already affluent scope of outgo options that includes functionality specified arsenic contactless payments, QNB ‘MyPOS’ (Tap connected Phone outgo acceptance) and Samsung/Google/Apple pay, to notation a few.”