Signicat today announced the appointment of Keith Fenner as CEO and Pete Daffern as Chair, effective 10 November 2026. The appointments mark a coordinated leadership transition as Signicat opens its next strategic chapter. Keith succeeds Asger Hattel, who steps down as CEO after almost seven years, while Pete succeeds Johan Tjärnberg as Chair. Keith Fenner, CEO of Signicat and Pete Daffern, Chair of Signicat The transition comes at a critical time as generative AI accelerates the threat landscape, with 59% of European businesses seeing an increase in identity fraud, according to Signicat’s The Battle in the Dark report. Signicat is uniquely positioned due to its proprietary AI capabilities, designed to detect and prevent deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud and identity theft. This growing demand for sophisticated digital trust solutions will continue to drive the company's expansion. Digital identity has become a critical foundation for the European economy, driven by strict regulatory demands and sophisticated fraud threats. To meet this need, Signicat has spent the last years successfully building a leading Digital Identity platform with unique solutions within onboarding, identity proofing, signing, orchestration and authentication, supporting and advising thousands of companies with their critical digital infrastructure, while buying and integrating eight acquisitions. Today, it operates a digital platform where regulated large players in industries like banking, finance, payments and the public sector can find a complete solution for their secure online transaction and digital identity needs. Since Nordic Capital invested in Signicat in 2019, the company has grown tenfold.  Through double-digit organic growth and acquisitions, Signicat has expanded its geographic reach and today serves more than 25,000 customers across more than 45 countries, supported by more than 550 employees across 16 offices in Europe. With this European platform firmly in place, and the next growth phase about to begin, Asger Hattel and the Board have agreed that this is the right time to hand over to new leadership. Keith Fenner brings more than 25 years of international software leadership experience, with a track record in scaling businesses and driving international growth at companies including Microsoft, Sage, Galvanize and Diligent. Pete Daffern brings extensive governance experience across private equity-backed software businesses in Europe and the US, combining this with more than 30 years in enterprise software leadership. “Signicat has established a market-leading platform in a sector that is critical to the European economy. The foundation is exceptional, and my focus now is on scaling that success. I am excited to join the team and open the next strategic chapter, to accelerate our international growth further, drive commercial execution and ensure we capture the immense opportunities in the digital identity space,” said Keith Fenner, incoming CEO of Signicat. “Signicat operates from a position of absolute strength in the market. Having guided multiple enterprise software companies through scaling, I look forward to leading the board and partnering with Signicat's Executive Team to unlock Signicat’s next chapter” said Pete Daffern, incoming Chair of Signicat. With businesses and the public sector facing increasingly complex fraud and compliance challenges, Signicat equips organisations with the tools needed to secure their digital transactions. “We are very pleased to welcome Keith and Pete to Signicat. Their complementary experience across software, international growth and board leadership makes them well suited to build on Signicat’s strong market position and pursue the opportunities ahead. Asger and Johan have both been instrumental to Signicat’s development, growth, and strong proven scalability, and Nordic Capital is grateful for their leadership and close partnership over the years,” said Fredrik Näslund, Partner and Head of Technology & Payments, Nordic Capital Advisors. Over his tenure, Asger Hattel led the strategy that transformed Signicat into a leading European digital identity platform. Under his leadership, the company grew tenfold, expanded its geographical reach into new markets, expanded the customer portfolio into critical new verticals while demonstrating excellent scalability and strong financial results. As Chair, Johan Tjärnberg has supported that journey and helped shape the Board that will guide Signicat going forward. “It has been a privilege to lead Signicat over the past seven years and to work with the team to build the company into the truly European platform it is today. With that mission complete, a strong organisation in place, and a new chapter to begin, I believe this is the natural time to hand over. Keith brings highly relevant experience for the work ahead, and I look forward to supporting a smooth transition,” said Asger Hattel, outgoing CEO of Signicat.

Signicat is consolidating its eIDAS audits under a single conformity assessment body, replacing a five-CAB structure built up through acquisitions.

Signicat research finds 79% of financial providers ready for AI agents, yet only 14% of consumers are comfortable ceding control.

Signicat, the leading European Digital Identity platform, has been named one of the Financial Times and Statista’s Europe’s Long-Term Growth Champions 2027, marking its third consecutive appearance in the ranking. The ranking recognises companies that have sustained primarily organic revenue growth over ten years. Earning a spot among this prestigious group of 300 European companies for the third time in a row underscores Signicat’s consistent market leadership and long-term vision. “Three consecutive appearances are a great achievement on this prestigious list ,” said Asger Hattel, CEO of Signicat. “Our growth has been sustained over a decade because we have consistently expanded our market share by building a platform that our customers fundamentally trust. As fraud becomes more sophisticated and regulation increases, thousands of businesses rely on us to manage their most critical digital identity processes, allowing them to establish trust without creating unnecessary friction for consumers”.  Signicat also ranks 17th among 61 IT & Software companies, placing it in the top third of the ranking’s most represented sector. IT & Software accounts for 20% of all companies included in this year’s list. Signicat’s position reflects sustained organic growth and the successful integration of strategic acquisitions across its European business. Over the past decade, the company has expanded its customer base, geographic reach and digital identity platform while continuing to invest in new technology and services. Today, the company employs more than 550 people across 16 European countries and supports more than 25,000 customers in 45 countries. “Whether you pay taxes in Spain, go to the doctor in France, travel into the UK from Europe, check your bank account in Sweden or Norway, return bottles for recycling in Netherlands or use your digital ID wallet in Denmark, Signicat’s technology is being used”, he concludes. For 2027 additional AML-R regulation and the digital EUDI wallet initiatives in Europe represent yet another change, which most European companies need to get prepared for. For businesses, the challenge is increasingly to combine stronger identity assurance and regulatory compliance with digital experiences that customers will actually complete. For the full Europe’s Long-Term Growth Champions 2027 ranking, visit the Financial Times.

Only 10% of UK consumers would trust AI to open a financial product for them, new research from digital identity firm Signicat has found.

Signicat has appointed TÜV Austria to consolidate European conformity assessments. The phased arrangement will replace five assessment providers for eIDAS-related audits, without constituting certification of every Signicat service or a completed transition.

Digital identity company Signicat has appointed TÜV Austria as its sole conformity assessment body for audits related to European Union digital identity rules, seeking to simplify compliance as the bloc prepares to roll out digital identity wallets. The decision follows eight acquisitions by Signicat that left its services subject to assessments by five different certification bodies, creating administrative complexity as the company expanded across Europe, it said on Tuesday.

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Signicat’s NFC-based identity verification technology has been certified under the UK DIATF, covering Right to Work, Right to Rent and DBS checks.

On July 14, 2025, Signicat, the leading pan-European digital identity platform, announced its acquisition of Inverid, creators of ReadID.

Le fournisseur norvégien de solutions d'identité numérique Signicat a annoncé, pour un montant non divulgué, l'acquisition du Néerlandais Inverid auprès de Main Capital et des fondateurs. Inverid développe depuis 2014 ReadID, la première solution de vérification d'identité au monde basée sur la technologie NFC. Celle-ci est reconnue par plus de cinquante organisations, dont Rabobank, les gouvernements danois et britannique, ainsi que Frontex.

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Signicat, the European digital identity leader and trust services provider, and TrustTech, the digital trust infrastructure company specialising in identity verification, reusable compliance checks and trusted signatures, today announced a partnership to help regulated businesses build reusable identity processes through private wallet ecosystems. The partnership combines Signicat’s digital identity platform capabilities with TrustTech’s trust infrastructure, designed to connect every step from first identity verification to final signature on eIDAS 2.0 standards. Together, the companies will help enterprises replace fragmented identity checks, password-based authentication, and repetitive signing processes with a single, private wallet-driven flow. This enables verified identity and trusted information to be established once and reused across systems, organisations and borders. “Regulated organisations are dealing with identity across more touchpoints than ever, from customer onboarding to employee access, partner checks and digital signing,” said Thijs Vink, Chief of Enterprise Central & Southern Europe at Signicat. “Private wallets give them a practical way to bring those journeys together today, rather than waiting for the wider public wallet ecosystem to mature. By partnering with TrustTech, we can help enterprises create trusted identity experiences that are easier to manage, safer to use and ready to scale across Europe.” The partnership will initially focus on financial services, government, healthcare and pharma. Rather than waiting for future government-mandated wallets, these organisations are increasingly deploying EU-ready and compliant private wallets for their employees and customers. This approach allows faster onboarding, passwordless security, and fewer repeated checks across internal systems, partner networks, and supply-chain journeys. “Customers, employees and partners should not have to prove who they are again and again, and institutions cannot afford to rebuild trust from scratch every time,” said Rens Pennings, Chief Commercial Officer at TrustTech. “By combining TrustTech’s proven reusable trust infrastructure with Signicat’s European scale, we can help regulated enterprises move from one-off verification to reusable identity. The result is faster onboarding, less manual work and trusted digital journeys that work across private wallets, sector wallets and the wider European identity ecosystem.”

European businesses are bracing for a period of significant operational complexity as two major, overlapping regulations come into force next year: eIDAS 2.0, introducing the EU Digital Identity Wallets and the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR). For several years, companies will need to support both the new EUDI Wallets to comply with European eIDAS 2.0, and the established national eIDs that millions of citizens already know, trust and use daily, as well as other identity verification methods like biometrics. Navigating this requires a strategic, flexible approach to digital identity management. For companies operating across the continent, this presents the costly challenge of building and maintaining parallel systems for identity verification, customer onboarding, and fraud prevention. To address this fragmentation, the digital identity firm Signicat today launched its eID and Wallet Hub. Signicat's hub acts as a strategic bridge, consolidating these obligations.  The platform acts as a single connection point, enabling businesses to verify users' identity from both the new EUDI Wallets and all established national eIDs, as well as other identity verification methods, without having to build and manage separate integrations. Signicat’s eID and Wallet Hub already processes over 500 million transactions per year. "For the next three years, digital identity in Europe will be organized chaos," said Allard Keuter, Head of Authentication & Wallets at Signicat. "Businesses will be legally required to accept a new wallet that most of their customers don't have yet, all while supporting the existing national and banking ID systems. We designed the hub because trying to manage that fragmentation internally would be a technical and financial burden for most companies." A key feature of the hub is its hybrid infrastructure, giving companies the flexibility to source required data either directly from a user's wallet or from Signicat’s extensive network of connected eIDs and data sources. "The real power of the wallet is putting users in control of their data. Our hub is built for that reality. It allows companies to request any data they need, whether the user has a wallet or if the information is even in it. This hybrid approach ensures a seamless experience and means companies can be ready for the future without disrupting their services today", adds Keuter. The EUDI Wallet is a cornerstone of the EU's digital decade policy, affecting over 450 million citizens with a goal for 80% adoption by 2030. Signicat's hub is designed to support this large-scale adoption, ensuring businesses can easily accept the new wallets while maintaining robust fraud prevention and regulatory compliance through a single, managed gateway.

Two and Signicat, two Norwegian fintechs, partner to solve a problem that has blocked the growth of B2B e-commerce: proving, in real-time, that a buyer has authority to purchase on behalf of their company. Sven Richard Samdal, Head of Growth at Signicat and Andreas Mjelde Co-founder and CEO at Two Two and Signicat address a persistent challenge in the British and European B2B commerce landscape. While digital identity verification for consumers is mature, with established national schemes like BankID and MitID used widely, and corporate credit checks are routine, the link between the two remains a critical point of friction. The process of confirming that an individual buyer is authorized to transact on behalf of their company still frequently requires manual intervention, creating transaction delays, increasing fraud risk, and leading to lost revenue from abandoned sales. "We call it the authority gap," said Andreas Mjelde, CEO and co-founder of Two. "A British distributor can instantly verify that a buyer is a real person named Maria García. They can check that García Industrial S.L. is a legitimate Spanish company. But can Maria commit García Industrial S.L. to net-60 terms on a five-figure order? Until now, answering that question meant days of back-and-forth with documents and phone calls. We've collapsed that to seconds." The partnership lets Two's B2B payment and risk platform connect to Signicat's identity platform, allowing it to orchestrate a full suite of verification methods. This process combines personal identity proofing, using methods that range from established national eID schemes to modern electronic identity document verification with biometrics, with real-time data lookups from official company registries. As a result, when a business buyer authenticates, the system simultaneously confirms their individual identity and cross-references their legal authority to transact on behalf of the company. The timing matters, because global B2B-ecommerce sales are projected to reach $36 trillion by 2026, highlighting the rapid shift from traditional channels to online B2B sales, though growth continues to face challenges from fraud and compliance friction. Signicat's 2025 research found 54% of European fintechs reported rising fraud, much of which exploits exactly this gap between personal and corporate identity. "The fraud isn't sophisticated. Someone claims to represent a company, you can't verify it quickly, so a commerce either rejects the sale or accepts the risk," said Sven Richard Samdal, Head of Growth at Signicat. "We built an infrastructure that lets Two verify authority the same way Nordic banks verify identity at scale and meet its AMLR obligations while confidently expanding. This is the infrastructure that enables secure, cross-border commerce at scale." For merchants, the partnership means offering immediate payment terms to verified business buyers without manual credit applications. For buyers, it means the same frictionless checkout experience they expect as consumers, backed by the credit terms their business needs.

Signicat, the leading pan-European digital identity platform, has today announced its acquisition of Inverid, the pioneering Dutch provider of NFC-based digital identity verification solutions, for an undisclosed sum from majority shareholder Main Capital and the founders. Existing shareholders will reinvest a substantial part of the consideration in Signicat, underlying their strong support of the combination.  The acquisition strengthens Signicat’s offering with Inverid’s flagship solution, ReadID, which has set the global standard for NFC-based identity document verification. Similarly, this integration supports Signicat's commitment to remain at the forefront of innovation. Signicat and Inverid have immediate synergies at both technological and commercial levels, as well as a strong cultural fit. First launched in 2014, ReadID was the world’s first NFC-based mobile identity verification solution, providing a high level of assurance and reliability for sectors requiring rigorous identity checks. Inverid’s client list spans both public and private sectors, including governments, financial institutions, and border control authorities. ReadID offers unparalleled capabilities in NFC-based document verification and holds industry-recognised certifications such as ISO27001, ISO27701, SOC2 Type II, and eIDAS Level of Assurance High. Trusted by over 50 organisations, including Rabobank, the UK and Danish governments, and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), ReadID enables organisations to perform secure, efficient, and scalable identity verification processes.  In the past three years, with the backing of Main Capital, Inverid has made substantial investments in both R&D - marked by the opening of a dedicated hub in Valencia - and in strengthening its go-to-market capabilities. As a result, the company has secured key industry tenders, tripled its revenue, and increased profitability fourfold. Signicat has heavily expanded its European footprint over the last years through large organic investments in development of new products, but also through eight strategic bolt-on acquisitions to strengthen its proprietary technology, customer base, and market expertise. Inverid joins a platform which includes other industry-leading solutions such as high-security app-based mobile authentication, unparalleled eIDAS-compliant video-based identity verification solutions, the world’s by far largest hub of national eIDs, and leading anti-fraud orchestration solutions like RiskFlow and Mint.  “By adding Inverid’s unique NFC-based solution to our platform, we can offer our customers the best possible document verification technology and unmatched identity solutions” comments Asger Hattel, CEO of Signicat. “This transaction demonstrates our commitment to remaining at the forefront of digital identity innovation, constantly striving to offer our customers still more effective tools to fight fraud while improving digitization journeys for their end users”. “The acquisition of Inverid is an important step to further strengthen Signicat’s offering to deliver even better digital identity solutions to the market. Building on a successful partnership between the companies and a strong cultural fit, this transaction will unlock immediate synergies. Nordic Capital is enthusiastic about supporting Signicat’s continued growth journey in Europe”, said Rolf Torsøe, Managing Director at Nordic Capital Advisors. “We share the same culture and European foundations, creating an excellent proposition, also in the context of the coming European Identity Wallet developments”, states Maarten Wegdam, co-founder and CEO of Inverid. “The identity verification market is moving more towards integrated and secure solutions. By combining our identity verification technology with Signicat’s global platform and unique identity and orchestration solutions, we can support that growing market perfectly”. Charly Zwemstra, CEO of Main Capital and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Inverid, adds: “We are excited to announce this next step in the growth strategy of Inverid. Since our investment in 2022, the business has taken great strides in its internationalization strategy while sustaining its reputation as world class pioneer in the field of NFC-based identity verification technology. We look back on a great partnership, are firmly convinced about the benefits of this strategic combination, and look forward to stay involved with this partnership following our reinvestment as a minority owner in Signicat”. This acquisition underscores Signicat’s ambition to lead the digital identity ecosystem by providing customers with high-assurance solutions perfectly tailored to address today’s challenges. For financial institutions, public services, or any organisation navigating stringent compliance and security standards, the integration of Inverid into Signicat’s portfolio complements their state-of-the-art, secure, and scalable identity verification solutions.

Signicat, Europe’s leading provider of digital identity and fraud prevention solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with AML automation specialist Strise. Together, they are launching an integrated solution for Know Your Customer (KYC) and…

Laut dem Identitätslösungs-Anbieter Signicat haben europäische Banken, Versicherungen, Zahlungsspezialisten und Fintechs in den vergangenen drei Jahren 2'137 Prozent mehr Deepfake-Betrugsversuche regi...

Les deux partenaires entendent développer une plateforme pour simplifier les processus d’authentification dans l’Union européenne.