The State Duma urged to make mandatory the collection of biometrics when opening bank accounts by foreigners

According to Interfax, Aksakov said this during his speech at the Moscow Financial Forum.

“A lot is used for all these actions (unauthorized debiting of funds from clients' accounts. -

) migrants.

Brigades come here, open these accounts, cash out unauthorized money debited.

It is proposed to discuss the possibility of mandatory collection of biometric data when opening bank accounts for foreigners in Russia in order to cut off a significant part of the fraudsters who work in our country, ”he said.

Aksakov added that in Russia there is a whole business of cashing out funds by migrants that were illegally withdrawn from the accounts of citizens.

Earlier, financial expert Jan Marchinsky assessed the idea of ​​lending at ATMs using biometric data.  

“At first, ATMs will issue insignificant amounts of biometrics.

At the same time, the new service will still be very popular, ”he said in an interview with the“ 360 ”TV channel.

According to him, the volume of consumer lending will increase even more, possibly several times.