Norwegian Fintech company Signicat enters into an agreement with the Danish Digitalisation Authority to provide secure verification of passports and other official ID documents for the Driving Card app and Denmark's upcoming digital ID wallet.
This marks the start of a new phase for how Danish citizens can prove who they are — both in everyday life and in the face of public services. With the agreement, Denmark gets a common engine for the secure verification of ID documents that can be used across both the Driver's Card app and the upcoming digital ID wallet.
The agreement Signicat has signed will strengthen Denmark's digital identity infrastructure. The agreement covers both the existing Driver's Card app and the upcoming EUDI wallet — a key part of the EU's eIDAS 2.0 regulation. The first version of the wallet is expected to be launched during the first half of 2026.
“We are proud to contribute to Denmark's digital identity infrastructure. With ReadID, citizens can safely use the data in their passport to prove who they are, both in the Driving License app and the new digital identity wallet,” said Asger Hattel, CEO of Signicat.
Through its Readid technology, Signicat uses near-field communication (NFC) to read the security chip in passports and ID cards. The technology extracts the official biometric data directly from the user's document without creating new saves, and the verification takes place locally on the device. This provides high security and full control for the user.
Since its launch in 2020, the Driving License app has received 2.1 million digital driver licenses. Citizens log in with MiTiD and scan their passport to retrieve a verified photo, which serves as visual ID on a par with a physical driver's license. Signicat's solution has been part of this process since inception and continues to support secure onboarding of new users.
DIGST started development of the digital identity wallet in the spring of 2025. Its goal is to provide citizens with a safe and voluntary way to store and display credentials, including digital ID, age verification and other evidence. In parallel, Signicat is also participating in four EU pilot projects — APTITUDE, WE BUILD, NOBID and EWC — that test the use of digital wallets across borders.
The agreement marks an important step in the Nordic region's role as a leading region for digital identity and trust-based technology. Denmark follows in the ranks of Nordic countries that are adopting solutions that can be connected to the EU's digital identity framework. At the same time, Signicat's work highlights how Norwegian and Nordic technology is helping to shape the next generation of public identity solutions in Europe — with a focus on security, interoperability and privacy.
These developments also point into the next wave of trust technology, where public ID solutions can be connected to everything from banking and finance applications to Web3 services that require strong but privacy-friendly identity verification. This is how Denmark and the Nordic countries become a laboratory for how traditional eID, digital wallets and new decentralized identity models can coexist and gradually merge.
Signicat was founded in 2006 and is today a leading European player in the field of digital identity. Offering a comprehensive platform for identity verification, authentication and electronic signatures, the company has over 450 employees spread across 17 offices in Europe. Since 2019, Signicat has been owned by the European buyout fund Nordic Capital.