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OneSpan helps banks and other organizations verify users and protect online transactions and mobile applications. Cybersecurity generates most of its revenue: customers pay for authentication software, including passkeys and multi-factor authentication, and buy Digipass authentication devices. Software runs in the cloud or on customers’ own systems. Financial institutions supply most revenue, and OneSpan sells both directly and through channel partners. Subscription licensing is its main source of income.

Its smaller Digital Agreements business helps organizations verify identities and complete agreements online. Customers subscribe to cloud services including OneSpan Sign for electronic signatures, OneSpan Notary for online notarization, and OneSpan Identity Verification.

The business depends heavily on financial institutions’ technology budgets and adoption of its authentication products. Banks’ shift toward mobile authentication has reduced Digipass device sales and increased software-license sales; OneSpan must keep its offerings aligned with customers’ move toward passkeys. Privacy rules govern how it processes personal and biometric data and transfers data across borders, while export controls and sanctions restrict where certain products can be sold.

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OneSpan’s results hinge chiefly on financial institutions’ authentication spending; key rivals missing here are Thales’ Gemalto, Yubico and RSA Security in authentication, and Adobe in electronic signatures.

  • DocuSign competes with OneSpan for businesses’ and government institutions’ spending on tools to send and sign agreements and manage the steps around them. Watch DocuSign’s electronic-signature business and agreement-workflow offerings for competitive pressure on OneSpan Sign.

  • Jack Henry and OneSpan both depend on banks’ and credit unions’ investment in digital banking: those customers pay Jack Henry for banking systems and electronic payment services, and OneSpan for secure identity checks and agreement tools. Jack Henry’s cloud-service and recurring electronic-payment revenue offers a view of spending by community and regional banks and credit unions, rather than a direct measure of demand for OneSpan’s authentication products.

Agenda

in 9 daysThu, Oct 29

  1. Time to be announced
    Major

    OneSpan Inc. earningsThis company

    OneSpan’s report will show whether growing software and cloud subscriptions from banks can offset declining Digipass device sales.

in 14 daysTue, Nov 3

  1. Time to be announced

    Henry (Jack) & Associates earningsJKHY

    Jack Henry’s cloud-service and electronic-payment revenue will show whether community and regional banks and credit unions are sustaining digital-banking spending that it shares with OneSpan.

in 44 daysThu, Dec 3

  1. Time to be announced

    DocuSign, Inc. earningsDOCU

    DocuSign’s electronic-signature and agreement-workflow business will show how demand is holding up among businesses and government institutions that it competes with OneSpan to serve.