Enterprise development teams building identity workflows across European markets now have a more direct route to national eID coverage. Signicat and WSO2 have announced a partnership that connects Signicat’s digital identity platform to WSO2’s Identity Server, giving WSO2 customers access to 35 European electronic identity schemes through a single integration point.
The problem the two companies are addressing is familiar to anyone who has built compliance-grade authentication for a pan-European product: each EU member state operates its own national identity infrastructure, and connecting to each one independently is slow, expensive, and brittle. Signicat’s “Battle to Onboard” research found that 68 percent of European consumers have abandoned a financial application because the process was too complex, a figure that points directly to friction introduced by fragmented identity systems.
By routing Signicat’s eID network through WSO2’s Identity Server, enterprise teams get a single integration rather than a country-by-country development effort. Signicat’s platform is also built to accommodate the EU Digital Identity Wallet as it rolls out under eIDAS 2, so organizations adopting the integration now will have a path to EUDI Wallet compatibility without rebuilding their authentication layer.
“Authentication for pan-European businesses shouldn’t mean building a new identity strategy for every country,” said James Brodhurst, Partnerships Manager at Signicat. “By adding our network of European IDs to WSO2’s powerful platform, we are making that trust easy to create.”
Geethika Cooray, Vice President and General Manager of Identity and Access Management at WSO2, noted that managing complex cross-market integrations, not building core application logic, is where most development teams lose time.
The two companies have identified joint prospects across several European markets and plan to present the integration at the Incyber forum in Lille, France. Signicat participates in the WE BUILD consortium for large-scale EUDI Wallet pilots across 27 countries and was selected by Denmark to support its mobile driving licence and national digital identity wallet. The company also took part in the Aptitude EUDI Wallet pilot testing digital travel credentials. WSO2 has been growing its digital identity partner network, including a collaboration with MOSIP on eSignet modernization for national digital identity systems.
Sources: Signicat
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By the Mobile ID World Editorial Team
