Signicat, the Trusted Digital Identity™ company and European market leader for trusted digital identity services, has partnered with Swisscom Trust Services, strengthening its Digital Identity Platform with qualified electronic signature (QES) functionality. Signicat can now offer the digital equivalent of a legally binding handwritten signature, meeting the highest level of the EU‘s eIDAS standards for electronic signatures.

The integration of Swisscom’s qualified electronic signatures ensures that Signicat’s customers benefit from qualified electronic signatures, within a suite of identity verification and authentication systems.

The Signicat platform enables digital trust via a number of sources, from social logins to eIDAS. The solution focuses on usability, providing customers with a frictionless customer experience, while still maintaining appropriate trust levels. Customers identities‘ are verified in a few quick steps which allows businesses to transact effieciently.

“Expanding our platform to cover QES enhances our ability to meet our customer’s needs for secure, regulatory-compliant digital identity services,” said Gunnar Nordseth, CEO of Signicat. “Swisscom Trust Services has convinced us with its agility and expertise to translate high legal requirements into technology. Our combined joint offerings complement each other and together we enable customers to easily further develop their business models."

"In Signicat, we have found a partner who not only complements our offering, but also shares our vision," commented Marco Schmid, Head of International Expansion Strategy at Swisscom. "Customers today demand a smooth digital customer journey and will not tolerate friction. Together with Signicat, we enable companies to live up to this expectation and thus develop their innovation potential."