RegAlert2022-11-27
Added · Updated
Biometric Authentication for Remote Customer Relationship Initiation/Establishment
The Central Bank mandates biometric authentication for initiating or establishing customer relationships remotely, requiring financial institutions to verify individual identities using reliable and independent information sources. This directive ensures that all remote onboarding processes maintain strict quality standards for customer data and authentication mechanisms. Institutions must align their operational procedures with these instructions to guarantee secure, high-quality remote customer interactions.
Get SAMA alerts — same-day email on every new publication.
- Obligation 0
- Permission 0
- Definition / condition 0
- Reporting template 0
- background, boilerplate
Circular
Gentlemen,
Peace be upon you, mercy of Allah and His blessings,
Subject: Biometric Authentication when initiating/establishing the relationship "remotely"
Therefore, regarding the Central Bank’s instructions related to identifying and verifying the individual customer’s identity, utilizing reliable or independent information/sources, ensuring quality of information, at the time of initiating/establishing the relationship "remotely", utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information, utilizing reliable information/sources, and ensuring quality of information
Note from RegAlert. AI assistants can read this document in full, and search 70,000+ more, through the RegAlert MCP connector (https://mcp.regalert.today/mcp). Free with an account. How to connect ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor.
Similar documents from other regulators
NBKRProcedure for Remote Identification and Verification of ClientsKyrgyzstan · 2020-05-13
HKMARemote on-boarding of individual customersHong Kong · 2019-02-01
CBARRegulation on Remote Opening of AccountsAzerbaijan · 2026-06-04
NBMRegulation on requirements for identification and verification of customers identities by electronic meansMoldova · 2024-11-07
CBUApproval of the Regulation on the Procedure for Digital Identification of CustomersUzbekistan · 2021-09-30
SHCPResolution modifying the general provisions applicable to credit institutionsMexico · 2018-08-29
Source: Saudi Central Bank — original document · Summary generated with machine assistance and reviewed before publication; the authoritative text is the regulator's original document. How RegAlert works
More like this from SAMA
We email you every new SAMA publication the day it's published.