Signicat has launched an eID and Wallet Hub designed to let businesses accept EU Digital Identity Wallets and more than 35 national eIDs through a single API, positioning the European identity provider for the multi-year period in which legacy smartphone eIDs and the emerging EUDI Wallet will operate side by side.
The hub gives integrators one connection point that can pull identity data either directly from an EUDI Wallet on a citizen’s phone or from Signicat’s existing network of connected national eIDs. That hybrid sourcing is aimed at the reality facing banks, telcos, and online services over the next three years: users will arrive with a mix of government wallet apps, bank-issued mobile eIDs, and country-specific smart ID schemes, and regulated businesses cannot afford to refuse any of them.
The regulatory backdrop is tight. eIDAS 2.0 requires EU member states to issue EUDI Wallets to citizens and requires regulated industries to accept them by late 2027. The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) layers updated identity verification obligations on top, especially in financial services. Signicat’s pitch is that businesses need a single abstraction over the wallet and the legacy eID layer rather than country-by-country integrations that will need to be rebuilt as each national scheme onboards the wallet.
“For the next three years, digital identity in Europe will be organized chaos,” said Allard Keuter, Head of Authentication and Wallets at Signicat. “The real power of the wallet is putting users in control of their data. Our hub is built for that reality.”
The Wallet Hub extends Signicat’s WSO2 enterprise partnership announced earlier this month, which connected the same 35-eID network to enterprise identity infrastructure.
It also draws on mobile-first capabilities Signicat acquired when it bought Inverid for NFC-based identity verification last July, bringing smartphone-based chip reading into its identity sourcing options at eIDAS High assurance. Signicat was also selected by Denmark to support its mobile driving licence and digital identity wallet in December 2025.
Signicat processes more than 500 million transactions per year across its eID network, serves over 20,000 customers in 45 countries, and participates in the EU Digital Identity Wallet Large-Scale Pilots.
Sources: Signicat, Mondovisione
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By the Mobile ID World Editorial Team
