iDenfy, a global RegTech firm focused on identity verification and fraud prevention, has integrated Handy-Signatur, Austria’s long-running mobile identity and e-signature credential, into its eID platform.
The integration folds one of the German-speaking region’s most widely adopted digital identity schemes into iDenfy’s suite of non-document verification workflows. Businesses onboarding Austrian customers can now confirm identities through credentials those users already rely on for everyday online services, removing the need to ask for a physical document at the start of onboarding.
Austria’s population sits at roughly 9.2m people, and Handy-Signatur counts more than 4 million active users, spanning government portals, banking platforms and private sector applications. iDenfy routes users into a mobile authentication flow where identity is confirmed via a passcode or SMS one-time password, after which the qualified-signature-backed identity data completes the request. For many Austrians, this is the default mechanism they associate with secure digital transactions.
The credential is state-issued and built on the OIDC standard, returning a deterministic set of given name and family name attributes with each successful authentication, crucially not derived from document photos. Certificates remain valid for up to five years and must be renewed before expiry; lapsed certificates require in-person reapplication at a registration authority. Austria introduced mobile authentication for government services back in 2011, giving it one of the EU’s longest records in electronic identity, with adoption built up through tax filing, public administration and regulated private sector onboarding.
Timing matters here. The eIDAS 2.0 framework, Regulation (EU) 2024/1183, requires every EU member state to offer at least one EU Digital Identity Wallet by 31 December 2026 and obliges banks, payment institutions and e-money issuers to accept digital identity credentials for strong customer authentication. As a state-managed identity backed by a qualified signature, Handy-Signatur sits within that framework.
Clients can switch on the new workflow through dashboard settings, with no coding or fresh integration work, at no extra cost. The platform can automatically divert users to electronic ID verification, via Handy-Signatur or other supported non-document methods, when document capture fails or is unavailable due to poor image quality or lighting, a pattern iDenfy’s internal algorithms flag as a recurring cause of session drop-off.
iDenfy’s platform supports over 16,000 government-issued documents across more than 200 countries and territories. Suspicious cases are flagged instantly and reviewed by an internal compliance team operating around the clock, every day of the year.
iDenfy CEO Domantas Ciulde said, “Handy-Signatur is the credential that carried that infrastructure for more than a decade, and more than 4 million Austrians still use it today. Our clients who serve that market now have a direct path to verify those users through the credentials they already trust, without asking them to switch to other methods or provide a document they may not have on hand.”
iDenfy CEO Domantas Ciulde added, “Handy-Signatur carries qualified-signature-backed identity data, which means that the successful verifications are tied to a government-issued credential, not to a user-entered form or a photography-based surface. For our clients, that distinction translates directly into verification quality for the Austrian market.”
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