OneSpan has opened early access to a digital credentials service built around the digital wallets people carry on their phones, letting organizations issue, manage, and verify identities held in those wallets through a single integration. The company introduced the service at the Identiverse conference and is aiming it at customer onboarding and authentication as eIDAS 2.0 pushes wallet adoption across the European Union.
The service is designed to sit across a fragmented wallet landscape rather than commit an organization to a single app. Through one integration layer, a business can accept and verify credentials presented from different mobile wallets, drawing on identity data the holder has already had verified instead of asking them to photograph documents and take a selfie again at onboarding. OneSpan frames those credentials as reusable, so a verification performed once can be presented from the same wallet and checked later without starting over.
It is built to extend an organization’s existing authentication rather than replace it. The digital credentials layer is meant to plug into the multi-factor methods and passkeys a business already runs, adding a wallet-based way to establish and reuse identity on top of the login and step-up checks in place. The early-access framing signals that OneSpan is inviting organizations to test issuance, management, and verification ahead of general availability rather than shipping a finished product.
“Digital credentials represent a fundamental shift in how identity is established and reused across digital interactions,” said Ashish Jain, Chief Technology Officer at OneSpan, tying the launch to a move away from document-based verification. The timing tracks the eIDAS 2.0 calendar: EU member states are to provide digital identity wallets by the end of 2026, and relying parties such as banks face obligations to accept wallets for onboarding and authentication by the end of 2027.
The launch builds on work OneSpan has already been doing in the mobile wallet ecosystem. The company joined EU Digital Identity Wallet pilots with a focus on banking use cases on mobile, part of an industry shift in which vendors are targeting wallet-based KYC through eIDAS 2.0-compliant interfaces. The security expectations for those wallets are also being set, with European authorities having established a security bar for the bloc’s mandatory digital wallet.
The digital credentials service is in early access, with OneSpan inviting organizations to begin testing issuance, management, and verification across mobile wallets.
Sources: OneSpan
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By the Mobile ID World Editorial Team
