With 4.7 million enrolled users in a country of roughly 5.6 million people, BankID Norway is one of the most widely adopted digital identity schemes in the world. In 2025 alone, the platform processed close to 901 million transactions, covering everything from tax filings and student loan applications to legal name changes and divorce proceedings. But scale exposes identity verification to threats, meaning that authentication alone is not enough.
At a recent webinar, BankID Norway’s Ove Morten joined Joe Palmer, president of iProov, and Megan Shamas, CMO at FIDO Alliance, to discuss how the platform has evolved its approach to authentication and why combining passkeys with biometric liveness verification has become central to that strategy.
