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Bo Harald

We seem to have a wide consensus

Judging from the discussion I follow on LinkedIn we seem to have a wide consensus that: 1. AI-agents will be bring a new - even underhyped - level of productivity and convenience at work and at home 2. To employ, empower and steer them we need verifiable credentials 3. To get verifiable credentials flowing we need interoperable general purpose or...

16 May 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Bo Harald

The new urgency - are banks prepared?

EU has been developing a digital trust infrastructure to support the data-driven economy for many years. Initially focused on enabling digital identification for citizens—especially needed in countries without BankID as infrastructure. The initiative then evolved into something far more transformative. It is now very clear that this infrastructu

10 May 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Bo Harald

Germany taking the organisation wallet-for-AI lead and Denmark speeding up citizen wallets

It is probably self-evident by now that the EU trust infrastructure is going to be the fundament not only for productivity, security, business and life event services, MyData privacy and a real Single Market - but also that ID-wallets and AI-agents together is the obvious next AI-step. The German coalition agreement is driving it: “The agreement...

08 May 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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The ice-hockey effect now with organisation wallets

Identity building wallets in organisations should be the starting point everywhere. How could you otherwise get the data flowing to business and life events? And how could you otherwise efficiently and safely deploy AI-agents?

 

Is India, UK and others now advancing with organisation wallets from the market while EU is losing time with state issued wallets instead of starting the heavy lifting - using market wallets to get the heavy lifting with public sector credential issuing and verifying process started? While soon all attention is lost to AI-agents and the like? Talking about 2027 now sounds like 10 years..

03 Mar 2025 03:08 Read comment

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 1. e-banking started with payments.

continues in part 2

 

25 Feb 2025 03:17 Read comment

How often should you doubt?

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21 Feb 2025 06:33 Read comment

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