Singapore's OCBC Bank has said customers can access its mobile banking app through facial biometrics with the introduction of OCBC OneLook.OCBC OneLook enables customers to simply look at their iPhone X in order to view their accounts and card balances as well as their latest transactions.In a statement today, OCBC Bank's head of consumer financial services Lim Wyson said the innovation is part of the bank's broader digital banking journey and follows from the earlier OCBC OneTouch fingerprint authentication.”We are ever on the lookout for new ways to deliver a simpler, more secure and superior banking experience to our customers. By leveraging on Apple's Face ID facial recognition technology, we are enabling our customers to dispense with passwords or even fingerprints when doing their everyday banking on our Mobile Banking app. They now only need to look, quite literally, at their iPhone X to get there,” he said.OCBC Mobile Banking customers first need to tap on the OCBC OneLook icon on the app's login screen and look at their phone in order to gain access.To get started, customers must perform a one-time activation for OCBC OneLook on the mobile banking app of their iPhone X with Apple's Face ID running on the iOS12.1 operating system.

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