Signicat
Signicat is a European digital identity company whose platform lets banks and other businesses verify new customers, log them in and collect electronic signatures online. A company connects once to Signicat and gets access to national electronic IDs, ID document checks with biometrics, data sources for anti-money laundering checks and signing services.
Signicat was founded in 2006 in Trondheim, Norway, and more than 21,000 companies across Europe use its services, among them banks, insurers, payment firms and gaming operators. These businesses need reliable identity checks to meet anti-money laundering rules at onboarding and to stop account takeover and payment fraud later on.
Identity verification and KYC
For know your customer checks, Signicat offers identity proofing with ID document scans, face biometrics, data verification against registers and ongoing monitoring of existing customers. Signicat Mint is a no-code tool in which compliance teams combine these steps into onboarding and risk flows without writing software.
ReadID, another Signicat product, reads the chip in passports, ID cards and residence permits through NFC on a smartphone and checks its authenticity cryptographically within seconds. The orchestration platform Zenoo added ReadID to its marketplace in February 2026, with the stricter identity checks of the EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation in mind.
BankID, MitID and other national eIDs
Many European countries give their citizens a national electronic ID, such as BankID in Norway and Sweden or MitID in Denmark, and Signicat connects these to its customers through its eID and Wallet Hub. The platform covers more than 35 electronic identity methods and digital wallets, and Signicat counts 450 million trusted logins through its services.
Signicat has added ID Austria to the hub, which opens online onboarding to the 4.8 million Austrians who hold that eID. For BankID in Sweden and MitID in Denmark, Signicat also unlocked extra security features that help banks fight account takeover and payment fraud.
Electronic signatures and Dokobit
Signicat sells electronic signing as an API for software teams and as a ready-made portal, which it runs under the Dokobit name. In August 2021 Signicat bought Dokobit, an e-signature provider founded in 2008 in Vilnius with customers such as SEB, Telia and Toyota.
Dokobit is a qualified trust service provider under the EU eIDAS rules, so its signatures can reach the level of a qualified electronic signature. Earlier in 2021 Signicat had bought the Norwegian mobile authentication firm Encap Security and the Spanish video identification firm ElectronicIDentification.
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Owner and management
The private equity investor Nordic Capital acquired Signicat in 2019 and remains its main investor. Asger Hattel is the chief executive, and Arne Vidar Haug, a co-founder of Signicat, leads its global solutions.
The management team also includes Michel van den Bogaard for finance, Emma Bauer as chief product officer and Mite Mitreski for technology. Joakim Harging runs the Nordic and UK business, and Thijs Vink is responsible for Central and Southern Europe.
Headquarters in Trondheim and revenue
Signicat has its headquarters in Trondheim, Norway, and more than 500 digital identity experts work for the company across Europe. Revenue grew from 24 million euros in 2019 to 42 million euros in 2020, and the Financial Times ranked Signicat among the fastest-growing companies in Europe.
The Dutch unit of the group, Connected Information Systems BV, has carried the legal name Signicat BV since 12 January 2026.
EUDI wallet and public sector work
Signicat contributes to four of the six EU pilot projects for the EU Digital Identity Wallet: APTITUDE, WE BUILD, NOBID and EWC. In December 2025 the Danish Agency for Digital Government chose Signicat as technology provider for the Danish mobile driver license app and for NFC identity checks in the coming Danish identity wallet.
In the United Kingdom the same ReadID technology runs in the UK ETA app and in the GOV.UK One Login app of the government.
Signicat and Finance Loop
Banks and payment firms in the Finance Loop network have to verify new customers under the EU anti-money laundering rules and are preparing for onboarding with the EU Digital Identity Wallet. Finance Loop brings compliance and product people from these firms together to compare how they check identities and stop account takeover fraud.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.