Press Release
Availability of Gender in NADRA Verisys
With the discussion held on June 09, 2022, in the PBA General Banking Sub Committee meeting, the PBA office, on June 28, 2022, requested SBP to engage with NADRA for the purpose of including, ‘Gender’ as an identity added in NADRA Biometric as well as NADRA VeriSys to maintain the uniformity in Data / Information.
As per SBP instructions issued in March 2022, all commercial banks operating in Pakistan are required to update the, ‘Gender’ field against the CNIC Numbers of their customers. The instructions were issued subsequent to the regulatory initiative for enhancing women’s presence in the formal, financial account ownership and as such, reliable data was required to determine participation by men, women and transgender.
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