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Garanti BBVA—a leading bank in Turkey—Selects Aware’s Knomi to Establish Secure Remote Customer Onboarding Capabilities
Partnership with DVA Bilgi Teknolojileri A.S. helps enable Turkish implementation of remote, mobile customer onboarding and document verification
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[{"type":"text","content":"Partnership with DVA Bilgi Teknolojileri A.S. helps enable Turkish implementation of remote, mobile customer onboarding and document verification functionality\nBEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aware, Inc., (NASDAQ: AWRE), a leading global provider of biometrics software products, solutions and services, announces that a leading bank in Turkey, Garanti BBVA, has chosen its Knomi™ mobile biometric authentication framework to bring secure, remote customer onboarding and document verification capabilities to its mobile app. This partnership is expected to enable Garanti BBVA to reach new customer markets by reducing the need for customers to visit a branch in person to open new accounts. As the pre-eminent banking franchise in Turkey, Garanti BBVA wanted to be able to reach new customers, cut down on operational costs, and take a leadership position in providing hassle-free banking services to its more than 15 million customers. After an exhaustive search for companies offering secure, remote onboarding technologies, Aware was selected for its longstanding leadership position in the biometrics space and its expertise with digital onboarding solutions. Local partner DVA Bilgi Teknolojileri A.S., who had been working with Aware for years on its digital onboarding offerings, helped to assist with the partnership with Garanti BBVA and ensure a successful implementation. Aware’s Knomi mobile biometric authentication framework provides Garanti BBVA with the secure, convenient mobile onboarding solution they need to securely enable new bank account openings without requiring customers to visit a brick-and-mortar bank location. With options for both face and voice matching over virtually any mobile device, advanced liveness detection to detect fraudulent activity, highly accurate selfie to document image comparison, and document verification capabilities for over 6,000 government issue ID documents, Knomi is the all-in-one solution Garanti BBVA chose to onboard new customers securely and conveniently, from virtually any location. “We are very happy to have selected Aware for this particular project,” stated Burçin Bıkmaz, director of Retail Digital Solutions at Garanti BBVA. “Knomi is an ideal solution to incorporate into our mobile application, providing our customers with a simple and secure method to open new accounts a...