You 2.0: digital identity, banking and the future

Digital identities are evolving fast as lenders, tech firms and governments roll out platforms to make it easier to shop, invest and constantly prove who you are. Banks – still trusted despite myriad scandals and crises – are at the heart of this process: a situation that is unlikely to change.

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It’s a weird truism that the people who change the world seem surprisingly normal.

Take Bo Harald. First impressions suggest an urbane college professor, a silver fox with the voice of former racing driver Mika Hakkinen. Yet the cheery Finn did something that matters to all of us, and will continue to, as long as human civilization lasts in its current form: he invented the digital ID.

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