This IT initiative is supposed to come up with better transparency and deal with fraudulent activities in the regulated areas.
Key Points
- There is a pilot in which facial recognition and AI are installed for gambling safety.
- The Ministry of Tourism and Sports partners with Biometric Vision.
- The push towards digitisation also extends to crypto and financial services.
Kazakhstan Launches Biometric Pilot to Regulate Gambling Industry
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports in Kazakhstan, in cooperation with the technology company Biometric, is running a pilot program, Biometric Update reported. The exercise, which is part of a bigger scheme to integrate improved transparency and social responsibility into gambling, is a test of biometric identification. Through the international forum Digital Bridge, the announcement about the partnership was made: Biometric.Vision will deliver a system for authenticating users using real-time facial recognition and AI technology. The program shall give fair access to the public in questions of their transactions involving gambling, reduce fraud possibilities, and provide further protection to citizens.
Biometric.Vision founder and CEO Alibek Narimbaev said the collaboration marks a major milestone in applying biometric and AI technologies for social good. “This project is about making technology serve society, improving transparency and reducing risks,” he said. The Ministry’s representative, Baurzhan Rapikov, called the pilot “a new stage in the digitalisation of the social sphere,” adding that it would support the responsible development of regulated industries such as tourism, sports, and gambling.
Bybit Partners with Biometric.Vision to Strengthen AML and KYC Processes
The partnership allows biometric verification to be used by Bybit for customer onboarding to fortify AML and KYC procedures against digital asset transactions. Around the same forum, Biometric.Vision had also signed a separate agreement with Bybit Kazakhstan, a crypto exchange regulated by the Astana Financial Services Authority.
Narimbaev also stated that such partnerships underline the increasing power of Kazakhstan as an innovation centre in the region, and the world is eager to watch it undergo digital transformation. It has already collaborated with the National Bank of Kazakhstan to offer services of ID verification and liveness detection.