{
  "slug": "trust-across-borders",
  "title": "You verified them in Berlin. Now prove it in Singapore.",
  "summary": "Identity verification does not cross borders. eIDAS wallets and mDLs make proofs portable in format, not in trust. Why trust registries are the real bottleneck.",
  "lede": "A person can be verified to the highest standard a regulator recognises, and cross one border, and be a stranger again. The reason is not that the formats are incompatible. The formats are converging nicely. The reason is that no institution has agreed whose word to take, and that is a governance problem wearing a technical costume.",
  "date": "2026-09-11",
  "reading_time": "19 min read",
  "category": "Standards",
  "tags": [
    "cross-border identity verification",
    "reusable KYC",
    "eIDAS 2.0",
    "EU Digital Identity Wallet",
    "mDL",
    "verifiable credentials",
    "trust registry"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Cross%20Border%20Trust/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/trust-across-borders.html",
  "wordcount": 4951,
  "related": [
    "verify-without-calling-issuer",
    "eidas-2-and-manav",
    "identity-failure-map"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}