Digital Identity: Global Roundup

The European Commission is accelerating the implementation of the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet while expanding the eIDAS trust framework to include international partners like Ukraine and Moldova. In the United Kingdom, the digital identity sector has grown to include 275 companies generating over £2 billion in annual revenue, signaling strong market maturity and public adoption. These developments reflect a global shift toward interoperable digital credentials, biometric-backed security, and robust governance frameworks across both public and private sectors.

The European Commission is significantly expanding the reach of its eIDAS trust framework through the new eIDAS Dashboard, which serves as a central hub for member states to publish information on trusted wallet and service providers. This expansion is moving beyond EU borders, with Moldova and Ukraine participating and 20 other nations expressing interest in the ecosystem. In the private sector, Italian provider Namirial has secured "France Identité Ready" certification, allowing its API-based wallet to operate within France’s national identity system, which currently serves 4.5 million users. This move precedes the 2026 EUDI Wallet deadline and highlights the growing trend of interoperability between private providers and national frameworks.

Technological integration is also deepening, as evidenced by 1Kosmos partnering with Microsoft to provide biometric liveness detection and verifiable credentials through Microsoft Entra. Visa has introduced its Threat Intelligence Platform (VTIP) to leverage payment network data and digital identity intelligence against fraud, while Signicat and TrustTech are developing reusable compliance checks to streamline onboarding under eIDAS 2.0. These corporate efforts are supported by market projections from Juniper Research, which anticipates that digital travel credentials (DTCs) will scale from 105.4 million users in 2027 to over 1.2 billion by 2035, driven by biometric border processing and international collaboration on standards.

On a global scale, national identity platforms are reaching massive milestones, with Vietnam’s VNeID surpassing 102 million records and Nigeria issuing 136 million National Identification Numbers (NINs) under its new 2026 legislative framework. Despite this rapid technical growth, research from the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute suggests that governance and assurance frameworks remain the primary hurdles to cross-border interoperability, often lagging behind technical deployment. Meanwhile, countries like India and Finland are refining their ecosystems; India’s IDfy now supports 500 million users with its privacy-focused platform, and iDenfy has integrated the Finnish Trust Network to allow bank-issued IDs for seamless, eIDAS-compliant authentication.