“Japan’s Seven Bank will allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash using facial recognition at around 20,000 ATMs nationwide as early as March 2024, President Masaaki Matsuhashi has told Nikkei. ‘We want our ATMs to be used not just for deposits and withdrawals, but as a terminal for a wide variety of services,’ To activate facial recognition, customers will link their account information to their faces at a Seven Bank ATM. Those customers then receive a unique ID, required in subsequent transactions as an added security measure. They no longer will have to present their cash card to the machines. Clearly this move from Seven Bank is another forerunner for the mark of the beast, and, like the president explained, they have plans to license this to many other businesses as well.”