Nearly all of Kazakhstan’s second-tier banks and 75 payments, microfinance and other financial organizations are now hooked up to the country’s biometric authentication system, as digital identity is used to access a growing number of public and private services.
Kazakhstan began requiring biometric authentication for loans in August, but the full production launch of the national biometric authentication system is expected to expand the use of biometrics to even more sectors. Kazakhstan jumped up to 28th spot in the UN’s digital government index in 2022, and has digitized over 1,000 government services.
