Austin, TX & Trondheim, Norway – [Dec. 04, 2025] – Markaaz, the leading global business identity and intelligence platform, and Signicat, Europe’s leading provider of digital identity and fraud prevention solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to enhance Signicat’s Digital Identity and Orchestration Platform with the most complete and continuously verified global business identity intelligence available.
The collaboration extends Signicat’s orchestration capabilities across Know-Your-Business (KYB), onboarding, and continuous monitoring workflows globally. By integrating Markaaz’s advanced business intelligence and proprietary entity data into Signicat’s compliance orchestration layer, the partnership accelerates decisioning and streamlines compliance operations for enterprises and financial institutions.
Through this partnership, Signicat incorporates Markaaz’s verified global business database, which includes detailed entity profiles, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) data, and firmographic insights, directly into its Digital Identity platform. Signicat automates KYB verification, streamlines business onboarding, and enables dynamic risk monitoring for its customers across international markets, and this combination strengthens this capability.
The collaboration allows financial institutions to:
This move positions Signicat as a more comprehensive global KYB solution provider while expanding Markaaz’s footprint in enterprise-grade compliance ecosystems. It complements Signicat’s mission to provide a unified decisioning layer for both individual and business identities, delivering a faster, more accurate, and trusted onboarding experience worldwide.
“Signicat shares our dedication to trust, accuracy, and AI-driven decisioning,” said Lansing Gatrell, EVP of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Markaaz. “Integrating Markaaz directly into Signicat’s orchestration workflows expands our global reach across the supply-chain ecosystem and strengthens the full lifecycle of business decisioning for Signicat customers—from onboarding through continuous monitoring. Together, we can deliver verified business intelligence in ways that significantly amplify the value we provide to customers.”
“Integrating Markaaz into Signicat extends our vision of complete, orchestrated identity and risk management,” said Pinar Alpay, CPO of Signicat. “Our platform gives enterprises a unified decisioning layer for both individuals and businesses, and Markaaz’s verified global business intelligence strengthens that foundation. Together, we’re enabling organizations to onboard and monitor businesses with unmatched accuracy, speed, and confidence.”
With Markaaz embedded directly into Signicat’s orchestration workflow, customers gain a more comprehensive 360-degree view of both business and individual identities—allowing them to automate KYB processes, strengthen due diligence, and reduce fraud exposure, all within a single platform.
Markaaz is the leading global business identity and intelligence platform, connecting verified businesses through superior data, advanced technology, and a trusted global network. With continuously verified intelligence on over 542 million businesses across 200+ countries, Markaaz enables enterprises to verify, onboard, and monitor business relationships with speed and confidence. Learn more at www.markaaz.com.
Signicat is a European leader in digital identity, helping private and public organisations verify users’ identities, authenticate access, and sign agreements with confidence. Founded in 2006, Signicat’s Digital Identity Platform brings together identity proofing, authentication, electronic signing, and orchestration through a single integration. It supports the full digital identity journey from recognition and onboarding to login, consent, and legally binding contracts. More than 20,000 customers in 45 countries trust Signicat to reduce fraud, remove friction, and meet European and global regulatory requirements such as eIDAS, PSD2, AMLR, and the GDPR. The company serves high-trust sectors including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and the public sector. Signicat actively contributes to Europe’s future digital identity ecosystem and participates in the EU Digital Identity Wallet Large-Scale Pilots, including WE BUILD, Aptitude, NOBID, and EWC.
In 2019, Signicat was acquired by Nordic Capital. Today, Signicat employs over 530 people across 20 offices in 15 European countries. For further information, visit www.signicat.com.
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