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Bo Harald

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Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

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Organisation wallets (EUBW): Urgent starting points for data exchange in the Trust Infrastructure

It is now obvious that there is a need to advance much faster – and soon go deeper - than was previously thought in the EU Trust Infrastructure rollout. The critically important step is to take suitable issuing and verification agents in use in public sector units and progressive enterprises without delay and start data exchange testing. The tech...

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It is a human right

It will soon be widely understood that it is a human right to get all the verifiable data you need in life and business events to your identity building wallet. Take for example the life event looking for the next job. There is a wide range of credentials you may need – issued by education providing organisations, qualifications of all sorts, incre...

27 September 2025 /ai /identity Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Thoroughly about EU organisation wallets (EUBWs for all)

Very good work by https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-eidas-ev/posts/?feedView=all. Emphasis mine and my comments at +++.Go-EIDAS invites you to expand further. “Within the recent launch of the Competitiveness Compass for the EU the European Commission announced its plan to augment the existing legislation around digital identity and t...

22 September 2025 /regulation /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Global innovation fundament in making

My points in Open Wallet Foundation work: 1. The mission is to get verifiable data to business and life events from all needed public and private sources without need for technical integrations and contracts between the parties. 2. For that we need interoperable general-purpose wallets/agents. OWF SIG task to map interoperability. 3....

20 September 2025 /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services

About phoning home

Banks are - for their part - moving closer to the Trust Infrastructure ny taking own EUBWs in use and seeing to it that customers do the same - becoming capable sending and receiving veriifiable data to and from all directions. Much to learn still. For example the "Phoning home" challenge and solution is not familiar to all of us. It mea...

15 September 2025 /regulation /identity Digital Identity Management

Zero Trust in Europe

In the EUDI Zero Trust is not a formal eIDAS 2 term but a security philosophy that EU wallet and infrastructure designers are actively adopting. 1. Zero Trust Basics Default stance: Never trust, always verify. Every actor—wallets, issuers, verifiers, and even networks—is treated as potentially compromised. Continuous authentication, authorization...

14 September 2025 /ai /identity Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

How map the verifiable credentials needed in business and life events?

Back at Nordea in -99 we tested the slogan – Do not serve your customer! Serve her life events! I even suggested – half in jest – that the bank should organise itself around life events – not segments or products. It was too early to get data grouped in actionable ways.. but the thinking was rooted. Now the data for events should be the very star...

12 September 2025 /ai /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

EUBWs are extremely important for NIS2

We all know that Business wallets are the only efficient way to counter fraud in banking - as discussed in the Mobey Forum meeting in Dublin today. We also know that Business wallets are needed to take AI-agents in use - also to take part in fight against cyber-crime costing 11 trillion dollars a year - and rising. We also now that PQC-capable bus...

10 September 2025 /security /identity Digital Identity Management

HR departments should not wait – they should take Business Wallets into use right away.

I have not worked in HR but much with HR in the past - most intensively in Nordea Bank and TietoEvry. I have seen their roles as important in helping the business leaders to foster a culture where employees feel important, are properly compensated, get involved in strategy work from the outset and get upskilled in real terms. Too much

10 September 2025 /ai /identity Personnel Management

How does the EUBW Trust Infrastructure support deployment of AI-agents?

I am repeating myself. But as AI-agents are mildly speaking hot - but not specifically mentioned by EUDI2 it should be lifted up that it - and especially its organisation wallets (EUBW) - ALSO provide the rails that make AI-agent deployment possible and legally meaningful. Here’s how EUDI2 supports AI-agents in practice: 1. Trusted Ide

07 September 2025 /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services