Thailand's telecoms regulator and Central Bank have unveiled plans to link biometrics with electronic transactions via mobile phones.Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of the regulator, told a news conference last Friday that a fingerprint enrolment service could be in place by December that would link to a new money transfer scheme.A new system, PromptPay, was announced by the central bank and Thai commercial banks last Wednesday.PromptPay, previously known as AnyID scheme, is seen as the first stage to transfer Thailand into a cashless society.It will enable people to use national ID or mobile phone numbers for payments to buy goods and money transfers, and it will open for registration on July 15 before services start on October 31.According to Thai PBS, users who wish to register for the service will have to have their fingerprints scanned the next time they buy a smart phone.
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