Dubai Bank has become the first bank in the Middle East region to launch a fully automated safe deposit locker facility that can be accessed 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Tijori service also features a biometric security system, which requires customers to register their palm impression so that they can validate their identity when using the service.
Located at Hall one of the Dubai World Trade Center, the safe house facility comprises four frosted-glass cubicles that offer complete privacy. Before using the services, customers are required to go through a speedy biometric process—an automated method of recognizing a person based on a physiological feature, in this case a palm impression—to register their identity.
Service registration takes just five minutes and the facility is open to all United Arab Emirates (UAE) residents, according to a company press release. Having registered the palm impression, the safe house administrator will ask the customer to use a card with a magnetic strip of his or her choice (ATM or credit card), to validate the identity of the customer.
Dubai Bank has partnered with security equipment company Comexter to provide the banking technology. Dubai Bank is a fully owned subsidiary of real estate major EMAAR Properties. Focused on retail and commercial banking, the bank’s launch in September 2002 is in total conformity with EMAAR’s diversification strategy, which aims at optimising the investment of group resources, while actively diversifying the sources of its revenues. — (menareport.com)
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