1. System for providing global biometric identification services to a plurality of remote parties, the system comprising: a template receiver, comprising a) a registration input configured to receive from at least one remote registering party communicating with said template receiver, at least one registration template complete as originally extracted from a respective biometric sample of an end user of said remote registering party, associated with a tag relating said registration template to said end user; and b) an enquiry input, configured to receive from a remote inquiring party communicating with said template receiver, at least one test template complete as originally extracted from a respective biometric sample of a person; and a verifier, associated with said template receiver, configured to determine a degree of match between said registration template and said test template, by directly comparing the registration template complete as originally extracted with the test template complete as originally extracted, thereby to verify said person as an end user, using said determined degree of match.