Ukraine’s largest mobile operator Kyivstar has joined the National Bank of Ukraine’s (NBU) BankID electronic remote identification system for individuals, the bank’s press service said on Friday.
“Another large mobile operator, Kyivstar, has joined the NBU’s BankID system. Now, using BankID NBU system, Kyivstar prepaid subscribers in mobile application “My Kyivstar” will be able to pass identification for switching to a contract form of service,” – explains the report.
Switching to contract form of service or mobile number registration is the most effective protection of subscriber’s SIM-card from fraud, the NBU pointed out.
Now NBU BankID System is used by all three major mobile operators in Ukraine: in April 2021 Lifecell Ukraine and in April 2022 Vodafone Ukraine joined to it.
As reported, BankID NBU provides access to services of more than 40 state and public institutions, allows users to be verified remotely to gain remote access to financial, administrative and commercial services.
As of April 14, 2022 the BankID NBU System had 40 BankIDs, including PrivatBank, Ukrgasbank, Ukrsibbank, Ukreximbank, Alliance Bank, Forward Bank, PUMB, Oschadbank, Alfa-Bank, OTP Bank, Accordbank, Globus Bank, Piraeus Bank, Pravex Bank, Raiffeisen Bank Aval, TAScombank, Kristallbank (all – Kyiv), Motor Bank (Zaporizhia), Vostok, Radabank, Concord Bank, A-Bank (all – Dnipro), Credobank, Idea Bank, Lviv Bank (all – Lviv), Pivdenny Bank (Odessa), MTB Bank (Odessa obl. ), Asvio Bank (Chernihiv), as well as virtual monobank and izibank.
