BankID has more than 8.5 million users and is necessary to, among other things, use Swish and access banking services.
It is a Swedish service that has so far only existed in Sweden – but now that will change.
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Photo: Oscar Olsson/TTBankID’s change
Last fall reported News24 that it will be possible to identify you with BankID also in other EU countries when you use public e-services.
Then DIGG, the Agency for Digital Management, sent a notification on behalf of BankID to make it possible for Swedish citizens to be able to identify themselves with the service abroad.
– During the next year, all 8.6 million BankID users will have the opportunity to identify themselves with BankID in foreign public e-services. The coordination of digitization in Europe is progressing and this is only a first step for our Swedish citizens to use BankID within the EU, said Kaisa Fexeacting CEO at BankID, in one press release when.
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On January 8, it was clear that the EU has approved BankID’s notification.
“Now it will be easier, smoother and safer for Swedes to identify themselves in public e-services abroad,” writes BankID on its homepage and continues:
“At the turn of the year, BankID was published in the EU’s official journal (EU official journal), which means that foreigners must add BankID as an identification method to their e-services within 12 months”.
Several public authorities have already started offering BankID as an identification method.
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