Home banking without card reader: ING launches ING QR Code


Clients of ING Belgium not want to hold their card reader in every single place with them to ​log in or ​carry out​ a transaction​ by way of their laptop. That is now potential with the ING QR Code, a primary within the Belgian banking panorama. On this method, the financial institution makes dwelling banking simpler for personal {and professional} clients. It is usually a solution to the phenomenon that fewer and fewer persons are ordering a card reader as a result of they’re extra cell banking. In spite of everything, the good know-how used to develop the ING QR Code is a further weapon within the combat towards cybercriminals.

You positively acknowledge it. Do you need to prepare banking by way of your PC or laptop computer, however you do not have a card reader at hand to log in? Or do you do not forget that time if you had been about to signal a transaction, however the search was once more for a card reader or the cardboard reader simply did not work at that second?

ING Belgium places an finish to this type of scenario due to the ING QR Code. A primary within the Belgian banking panorama, because of which clients who financial institution at dwelling not all the time need to have their card reader with them to log in or to signal a transaction.

​Sali Salieski, Head of Retail & Non-public Banking at ING Belgium:If you wish to log in to House’Financial institution or Enterprise’Financial institution by way of your laptop, you possibly can click on on the ING QR Code. A QR code seems that you would be able to scan along with your ING Banking app. Once you open the app, you instantly see a scanner that reads the QR code in your laptop display. You may then establish your self by way of a quantity code, Face ID or Contact ID. Once you need to signal a transaction that you’d usually do along with your card reader, you’ll instantly obtain a message in your smartphone to substantiate this transaction. For those who do not need a smartphone, you possibly can in fact proceed to make use of the cardboard reader.

​New know-how retains cybercriminals at bay

With the introduction of the ING QR Code, ING Belgium is shifting up a gear to make banking by way of House’Financial institution and Enterprise’Financial institution simpler. It’s the results of a few 12 months of collaboration between greater than 250 know-how and banking specialists inside ING from 9 totally different nations. With this, the financial institution provides a 3rd safe choice for on-line banking, along with the cardboard reader and itsme. ING is the primary financial institution in Belgium to market this innovation.

Decreasing the digital waste mountain

The ING QR Code is just not solely there to make on-line banking simpler and easy. ING additionally contributes to lowering the mountain of digital waste. Based on the newest figures from Recupel, the group that recycles electrical and digital home equipment in our nation, Belgian households collectively nonetheless have fifty million unused electrical home equipment at dwelling. Card readers and calculators rank third within the prime ten. That quantities to 1.5 million models.


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