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by TheSmiddy 1592 days ago
In Australia the system is called Osko and we link our mobile phone numbers or email address to it.
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I use this to find out who owns a mobile number.

Punch in the mobile number to the banking app and more often than not the mobile's owner name is displayed.

That's definitely a down side to it. I think you used to be able to choose your username, but now the only options my bank gives me are name + surname, first initial + surname or, oddly, middle name + surname
People do this type of lookup today with Cashapp