BankID wins European Identity Award

BankID wins European Identity Award

The Swedish company Finansiell ID-Teknik BID AB (BankID) has won the European
Identity Award for the best IAM
(Identity and Access Management) / GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance)
service within the Business
to Business segment in Europe.


The price was awarded on the 6th of May during the European Identity Conference
in Munich and the justification was:
"BankID - A working approach to support electronic IDs to employees, partners
and customers - well established and proven".

- In Sweden most people have a basic knowledge of BankID and electronic
identities. It is used daily by 1.5 million people
for digital identification as well as signature in banks, authorities and
companies. We are happy that our achievements have
attracted attention throughout Europe, says Kenneth Tessem, Head of Business
Development at Finansiell ID-Teknik BID AB. 

- I'm proud that products developed by Nexus are a part of the BankID solution
and we will continue to support the BankID
infrastructure with secure and user friendly products, says Peter Gille CEO at
Technology Nexus AB.

For further information please contact:

Peter Gille, CEO, Technology Nexus AB 
Phone: +46 8 655 39 00
E-mail: peter.gille@nexussafe.com

About BankID

Finansiell ID-Teknik BID AB provides an infrastructure for electronic identities
in Sweden. Currently 9 banks act as issuers of BankID
to their customers. Together these banks cover about 5.6 million online banking
customers (Sweden has about 7.3 million citizens
in the age of 18 or above). BankID is the leading digital identity in Sweden
with a market share of 75% - at this point there are
approximately 1.5 million active BankIDs. About 60 organizations provide 300
services were citizens can use their BankID for digital
identification as well as signing. The services vary from online banking and
e-trade to tax declaration and are provided by government
authorities, municipalities, banks and other businesses. BankID signatures are
advanced electronic signatures and thus legally binding
within the EU.


About Nexus

Nexus Technology works internationally with e-communication, information and
security solutions. Our clients are companies and
organisations for which IT and the Internet are essential to the management of
sensitive information and knowledge. Nexus' business
concept is to offer solutions, products and services that make the right
information available to the right people, at the right time,
wherever they need it in the world. We help our clients to not only protect
their information, e-communication and knowledge, but also
to create opportunities to make more effective use of these. Nexus is an
international company with headquarter in Sweden, offices
in several European countries and partners all over the world. For more
information please visit our web site www.nexussafe.com.