- OneSpan is buying blockchain-based doc storage firm ProvenDB.
- The acquisition will assist OneSpan add doc storage to its current product choices.
- Phrases of the settlement, which is anticipated to shut this quarter, weren’t disclosed.
Digital agreements safety firm OneSpan agreed to accumulate blockchain-based doc storage firm ProvenDB. Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Headquartered in Australia, ProvenDB was based in 2018. The corporate offers a blockchain-based database that permits customers to retailer information, cryptographic signatures, paperwork, and extra. The corporate additionally gives a product that provides proof, belief, and integrity to purchasers’ current databases.
Underneath the settlement, ProvenDB will improve OneSpan’s Transaction Cloud Platform to private and non-private blockchains. Integrating ProvenDB’s expertise into OneSpan’s current choices will even add a brand new product providing that gives clients with safe vaulting capabilities and helps OneSpan safe digital agreements.
“Digital artifacts are just too simple to manufacture, tamper, or delete within the period of Web3 resulting in safety breaches and lack of belief in digital data. On this world of proof tampering and deep fakes, it’s vital that we have non-repudiation and copies of the unique artifact with an immutable chain of custody all through your complete buyer journey,” mentioned OneSpan President and CEO Matthew Moynahan. “Securing enterprise processes end-to-end leveraging blockchain expertise will play an more and more vital position in preserving the integrity of digital transactions and agreements to gas this contemporary digital period. We now have an formidable plan to disrupt the digital settlement market and ProvenDB will speed up that plan. OneSpan’s mission, the main focus of our whole go-to-market technique, is to revive belief and confidence in at the moment’s most crucial buyer experiences, corresponding to revenue-generating transactions or buyer and vendor onboarding, and make sure that their integrity is rarely in query.”
The transaction is anticipated to shut the primary quarter of this yr.
Based in 1991 and previously referred to as VASCO, OneSpan gives a spread of digital identification and anti-fraud options. The Chicago-based firm authenticates 4 billion customers annually and counts 60% of the world’s largest banks as purchasers. OneSpan went public in 1997 and has a present market capitalization of $540 million. Matt Moynahan is CEO.
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