Mexico Mandates Facial Biometrics for Bank Transactions

Mexico's banking regulator (CNBV) now requires banks to add facial biometric verification with liveness detection alongside fingerprints for in-person transactions, giving institutions 90 days to comply and mandating a 90 percent match against government identity records. The rule ties routine access to banking services to centralized biometric identity checks against state records, part of a wider Latin American trend toward biometric-gated financial access. Such systems illustrate how ordinary participation in the economy is increasingly conditioned on verified digital identity infrastructure.