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The Ministry of Finance announced this in a press release. In a first step, ID Austria should make it possible to open an account online. The customer therefore no longer has to visit the bank branch, but can identify themselves online.
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The ministry said ID Austria meets high security standards. “Solutions with the highest security requirements are needed here,” said Finance Minister Magnus Brunner (ÖVP). “That is why it is very important to us to make ID-Austria available to the private sector as an e-government application.”
ID Austria has been activated around 2.6 million times so far. From digital driving licenses and registration certificates to registration forms and tax equalization, ID Austria has already made it possible to quickly handle a wide range of official procedures. “In addition, ID-Austria also offers numerous use cases for the economy, such as identifying and checking new and existing customers of banks,” noted State Secretary Florian Tursky (ÖVP).
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Green light given for further possible applications
This expansion of the digital office is naturally viewed positively by Robert Zadrazil, deputy federal chairman of the banking and insurance division in the Chamber of Commerce: “Our goal with ID-Austria is to make it significantly easier for bank customers to access banking services with the highest security standards ” said Zadrazil. “It is therefore important that the banking supervisory authority has now given the green light for further possible applications of ID-Austria in the banking sector.”
In any case, the conditions for this are met, said the financial market supervisory authority. “Those required under the Financial Markets Anti-Money Laundering Act can identify their customers securely and in accordance with the law through access to state registers and technically secured data transfer,” noted the board members of the Financial Market Authority, Helmut Ettl and Eduard Müller.
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