LSEG Risk Intelligence has launched Identity Gateway, an access layer that connects organizations to trusted national digital identity schemes across multiple jurisdictions through a single integration. Built on Microsoft Azure, the product initially connects to digital identity schemes in 10 European markets, with the company positioning it as a way to reduce the fragmented, country-by-country integrations that cross-border businesses face.
The product addresses a structural problem in European digital identity: each market runs its own scheme, with its own technical interface and commercial terms, so a business operating across borders has to build and maintain a separate integration for each one. Identity Gateway sits between the organization and those schemes, exposing a standardized API and a single commercial framework, so a customer can connect once and verify users across the connected markets rather than rebuilding the process per country. The initial markets include Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Spain.
LSEG frames the launch around the coming European Digital Identity Wallet rollout, under which all 27 EU member states are required to offer their own wallet implementations. That mandate is set to multiply the number of national schemes a cross-border business must support, which is the fragmentation Identity Gateway is designed to absorb. The company says the approach can reduce time-to-market by 80 to 90 percent compared with building each integration independently.
“Digital identity is reaching an inflection point,” said Daniel Flowe, Head of Digital Identity at LSEG Risk Intelligence, describing a landscape where the number of trusted schemes is growing and organizations need a simpler way to access them without rebuilding their processes for each market. The product launched at Money20/20 Europe, with additional countries and schemes expected in later iterations.
The connect-once model echoes approaches other identity vendors have taken to the same fragmentation. Signicat has built an eID and Wallet Hub connecting more than 35 national electronic IDs through a single integration, and the broader transition is being driven by the rollout of EU-wide identity infrastructure that requires relying parties to interoperate across member states.
Sources: LSEG
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
