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A wave of EU regulation is turning digital identity from a convenience into an obligation. eIDAS 2.0 requires organisations across regulated sectors to accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet; NIS2 makes strong identity and access a legal duty for essential and important entities; the AMLR, EHDS, and ESPR each add their own verification demands. The through-line is the same: every sector now needs to identify people, verify authority, and prove it - on open, interoperable standards. Soverio provides that identity layer, from wallet acceptance to credential issuance, with integration paths sized to your organisation.

By sector

Banking & Finance

Two EU regulations are converging on how banks and fintechs verify customers. Under eIDAS 2.0, financial institutions - already obliged to use strong customer authentication - must accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet as member states roll it out through 2026. In parallel, the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) harmonises customer due diligence from 2027 and explicitly recognises identity verification via notified eID and the EUDI Wallet. The same integration that meets the acceptance obligation also collapses manual, high-drop-off KYC into minutes-long, cryptographically verifiable onboarding. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, AMLR compliance, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Telecommunications

Telecommunications is named directly in eIDAS 2.0 as a sector that must accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet - turning subscriber identity into a regulated interface. Operators can meet that acceptance obligation while solving problems they already have: wallet-based onboarding that removes manual document checks and shrinks fraud, and phishing- and SIM-swap-resistant authentication that replaces SMS one-time codes for account access and high-risk changes. The result is faster activation, fewer fraudulent ports, and a verifiable identity customers can reuse across services. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Energy

Energy operators - electricity, gas, hydrogen, district heating - are essential entities under NIS2, which makes strong identity and access control a legal duty, not a best practice. The same infrastructure serves a widening edge: grid-operator and field-workforce access, contractor and supplier identity, and prosumer and smart-metering identity as energy communities grow. Wallet-based, phishing-resistant authentication and verifiable credentials give every actor - human or device - an identity you can prove and audit, across OT and IT. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Government

For the public sector, EU Digital Identity Wallet acceptance is not optional: under eIDAS 2.0, public-sector bodies that require electronic identification must accept the wallet, and many will also issue credentials into it. That is a two-sided mandate - accept wallet-based identity for online public services, and issue verifiable attestations (permits, entitlements, registrations) citizens can carry and present cross-border. Soverio provides both the relying-party and issuance sides on open standards, so a credential issued in one member state verifies in another. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Healthcare & Health Data

Health data is going European, and identity has to keep up. The European Health Data Space (EHDS) opens cross-border access to health records for both direct care and secondary research - which only works if every patient, clinician, and researcher can be identified and their consent verified to a common standard. The EU Digital Identity Wallet becomes that standard: wallet-verified patient and practitioner identity, consent-based access, and cryptographic audit trails spanning care providers, health-tech platforms, and research bodies. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Transport

Transport is being reshaped by two EU moves at once: the EU Digital Identity Wallet will carry mobility credentials, and transport operators fall under NIS2 obligations. Driver, operator, and professional-qualification credentials can live in the wallet and be verified roadside or at a depot; ticketing and access can bind to a verified identity; and workforce and contractor access to operational systems gets NIS2-grade control. Because the credentials are open-standard, they travel across borders with the traveller. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Social Security

Social-security institutions face two pressures at once: cutting entitlement fraud and coordinating benefits across member states. Wallet-based identity answers both - high-assurance verification that the right person is claiming the right benefit, and open-standard credentials that let entitlements be checked and honoured in another country without bilateral integrations. Verifiable proof of identity, residence, and status replaces paperwork and manual checks with cryptographic evidence, lowering fraud while speeding legitimate claims. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Drinking Water

Drinking-water suppliers are essential entities under NIS2, which puts identity and access control for critical operational systems on a legal footing. The risk is concrete: operator, contractor, and maintenance access to SCADA and control systems must be strongly authenticated, tightly scoped, and fully auditable. Wallet-based, phishing-resistant authentication and verifiable contractor credentials replace shared logins and unverifiable claims with identity you can prove for every person who touches the system. Explore Wallet Gateway and FastEid.

Postal Services

Postal and delivery operators sit on two eIDAS opportunities. First, qualified electronic registered delivery gives legally recognised proof of sending and receipt for digital communications - a trust service operators are uniquely placed to offer. Second, verified recipient identity at handover: wallet-based identity confirms the right person receives a restricted delivery, replacing signatures and ID photocopies with cryptographic proof. Both turn delivery into provable, auditable trust. Explore Wallet Gateway, FastEid, and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

Digital Infrastructure

NIS2 makes identity a board-level duty for operators of digital infrastructure - cloud and data-centre providers, DNS and TLD registries, IXPs and trust-service providers. These operators must demonstrate strong authentication, least-privilege access, and auditable trust across a workforce, contractors, and automated systems that rarely sit behind one perimeter. Wallet-based, phishing-resistant authentication and verifiable credentials give each actor a provable identity and every access an auditable record - the evidence a NIS2 regime expects. Explore Wallet Gateway and FastEid.

Education

Under eIDAS 2.0, the EU Digital Identity Wallet will carry academic credentials - so diplomas and micro-credentials can verify themselves. Institutions issue tamper-proof, cryptographically signed qualifications straight to a graduate's wallet; employers and other universities verify them instantly, anywhere, without contacting the registrar. That cuts credential fraud, speeds admissions and hiring, and lets learners carry a portable, lifelong record of verified achievement across borders. Explore FastEid and eIDAS 2.0 / EUDIW.

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