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MAS expands digital identities options for bank account openings
Published Wed, Feb 7, 2018 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
AMID Singapore's push to attract more fintech firms and spur innovation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has moved to make it easier for customers to skip a physical trip to bank branches to complete identity verification.
MAS has expanded the forms of digital identity that banks and other financial firms can use to identify and accept new customers, it said in a media statement on Wednesday.
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