Banking biometrics taking off in West Africa

A couple of stories out today from West Africa’s largest country, Nigeria, and perhaps its most respected, Ghana, tell of adoption of large-scale biometric deployments in finance.

Nigeria Inter Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has disclosed that over 18 million customers have so far enrolled for the Biometric Verification Number (BVN) exercise (The Sun)

Eight foreign remittance firms join Ghana’s e-Zwich (Modern Ghana)