IDnow Trust Services AB, the Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP) arm of digital identity and fraud prevention company IDnow, has received certification to issue Qualified Electronic Attestations of Attributes (QEAAs). The certification follows a conformity assessment specific to the QEAA service and covers attribute proofing, technical issuance, lifecycle management, and IT security.
Conformity assessment and regulatory process
The assessment included onsite visits and evidence-trail reviews of IDnow's baseline processes as a QTSP, as well as of the QEAA service itself. It was carried out against the ETSI EN 319 401 and ETSI TS 119 471 standards and concluded with zero non-conformities. The resulting conformity report has been submitted to Sweden's Post- och telestyrelsen (PTS), the supervisory body responsible for granting qualified status and for the corresponding entry on the EU Trust List.
QEAAs are verified credentials, recognised across the EU under the eIDAS 2.0 framework, that attest to a specific personal or organisational attribute, such as a residential address, tax identification number or professional certificate. Unlike paper-based certificates, a QEAA is machine-readable, reusable and instantly verifiable. IDnow's QEAAs can be delivered directly into an organisation's existing onboarding flow or issued to the EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet.
The missing link in AMLR
The certification arrives as regulated financial institutions across Europe prepare for the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), which requires obliged entities to collect and verify a range of customer attributes and credentials by 10 July 2027. Some national eID schemes and EUDI Wallets may not provide all the required attributes as part of the standard Person Identification Data (PID) set, which is expected to leave a gap between the attributes organisations must verify and what current identity ecosystems can reliably supply.
IDnow's QEAA service is intended to address that gap. Through a single integration, the company combines identity verification, attribute proofing and QEAA issuance within one accountable chain, proofing attributes against an authentic or authoritative source before issuing the QEAA through its own QTSP.
Johannes Leser, Managing Director of IDnow Trust Services, said the AMLR requires organisations not only to identify customers but to verify specific facts about them, a capability that current identity infrastructure was not consistently built to support across Europe. The official added that the QEAA certification is designed to provide organisations with an audit-ready mechanism to meet this requirement without depending on the pace of EUDI Wallet rollout to match already-fixed regulatory deadlines.
The certification positions IDnow among providers offering QEAA issuance ahead of the AMLR's 2027 compliance deadline, at a time when financial institutions are assessing how to reconcile national digital identity infrastructure with incoming EU-wide verification requirements.
