The trust services behind the ecosystem control plane
Raidiam Connect provides an integrated set of trust services that let you build the ecosystem foundations once — then keep adding products, services, participants, and value. Here's how the services work together to make that possible.
The integrated trust services that let you build once and expand forever
Raidiam Connect isn't a single tool. It's the integrated set of trust services that together let you build the ecosystem foundations once — identity, certificates, governance, discovery, onboarding — then keep adding products, services, participants, and value without rebuilding.
Directory & Registration Authority
Identity verification, role accreditation, certificate authorisation
PKI & Certificate Authority
HSM-backed issuance, OCSP, CRL, JWKS, automated rotation
Federation Metadata
Signed entity statements, trust chains, trust marks, metadata policies
Discovery & Resolution
API resource discovery, OP discovery, trust chain resolution
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The integrated trust platform
Policy & Governance
Policy cascade, delegated governance, self-service domains
Shared Signals
Real-time events: revocations, metadata updates, lifecycle changes
Onboarding & Lifecycle
Business onboarding, conformance gates, go-live, lifecycle management
Operational Dashboard
Single pane of glass: entities, certificates, conformance, trust state
What each participant gets
The same platform serves both sides of every ecosystem.
Regulators, scheme operators
For ecosystem operators
- Governed onboarding of all participants
- Policy that cascades to every entity automatically
- Real-time visibility across the entire ecosystem
- Delegated governance to domain operators
- Conformance and certification integrated into lifecycle
- Certificate management for all participants
Banks, fintechs, wallets, agents
For participants
- Self-service registration and resource management
- Automatic discovery by every OP in the ecosystem
- Certificate issuance bound to verified identity
- Trust chain that proves their authority to the ecosystem
- Real-time status: conformance, certificates, metadata
- Trust marks from external authorities
How they work together
Every step of the participant journey is powered by one of the 8 trust services.
New participants and services discover each other automatically
In the ecosystem control plane, every organisation publishes its services, APIs, and credentials. New participants discover each other programmatically — no manual configuration, no bilateral exchange. The more participants you add, the more discoverable the ecosystem becomes.
Discovery eliminates the single most expensive step in partner integration: the bilateral exchange of endpoints, keys, and metadata. Without it, every new partner is weeks of manual configuration. With it, participants discover each other programmatically in seconds.
No bilateral setup. No client registration. The federation controller is the single source of truth. Applications and authorisation servers both query it. The OP pulls verified client information directly — no push-based registration needed. This works whether there are 2 organisations or 2,000.
Federation Discovery API
Applications query the controller for registered authorisation servers and API resource types. One query returns the entire ecosystem.
OP-Initiated Client Pull
When an authorisation server encounters a new client, it pulls the verified software statement and metadata directly from the federation controller.
OpenID Federation Trust Chains
Trust is established by resolving entity statements back to the trust anchor. Cryptographically verified. No pre-shared secrets.
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How policies cascade through the trust chain
In OpenID Federation, every entity publishes a self-signed Entity Configuration. Trust is established by resolving statements from the entity back to the trust anchor. At each level, metadata policies constrain what the entity below can claim. This is how governance scales without centralised control.
Trust Anchor
Your Federation Controller
Sets the maximum allowed grant types for the entire ecosystem
Intermediate Authority
Open Banking Authority
Narrows grant types further, requires strong client auth
Organisation
Nova Fintech
Claims specific values within the policy constraints
Application / Leaf Entity
Nova Connect App
Self-signed Entity Configuration — claims its own metadata
Policy conflicts are a feature, not a bug
When an entity’s claimed metadata violates a superior’s policy, the trust chain is invalid. This is deliberate — it’s how governance is enforced without runtime dependency.
Trust Anchor policy
Intermediate policy
Entity claims
Chain valid — entity operates within policy
Trust Anchor policy
Intermediate policy
Entity claims
Chain invalid — "implicit" violates intermediate policy
The OP rejects the entity. No tokens are issued. No API access is granted. The ecosystem’s rules are enforced at the protocol level — no human intervention required.
Metadata policy operators
OpenID Federation defines a set of operators that control how metadata is constrained at each level of the trust chain.
subset_ofValue must be a subset of the specified setone_ofValue must be exactly one of the specified optionsvalueOverrides with a specific valuedefaultSets a default if entity doesn’t specifyregexpValue must match the regular expressionThis is how federation enforces governance at scale. The trust anchor sets the rules. Intermediates can narrow them but never widen them. Entities must comply or their trust chain fails. All of this happens at the protocol level — cryptographically verified, machine-readable, and automatic. No spreadsheets. No manual review. No bilateral agreements.
Governance without runtime dependency
Policies are embedded in entity statements and evaluated during trust chain resolution. The trust anchor doesn’t need to be online for every transaction.
Narrowing, never widening
Each level can only constrain further. An intermediate cannot grant permissions the trust anchor hasn’t allowed. This is hierarchical governance by design.
Machine-readable compliance
Policy violations are detected automatically. An OP resolving a trust chain will reject an entity that violates any policy in the chain. Compliance is enforced by the protocol itself.
Set the rules once. They enforce themselves as the ecosystem grows.
Governance is what makes ecosystem expansion safe. Set policies at the trust anchor. They cascade automatically through every domain, every participant, and every entity. As you add use cases, sectors, and partners, governance scales with you — no manual review, no spreadsheets, no bottleneck.
At 10 participants, manual governance works. At 500, it becomes a full-time team doing nothing but approving permission changes. The ecosystem control plane makes governance self-enforcing — the capability that lets you expand without gatekeeping.
Policy chaining
Each level can only narrow permissions set above. The chain validates automatically.
Sets maximum permissions for the ecosystem
Narrows permissions for their sector
Claims within permitted range
Operates within all constraints
Delegated governance
The federation operator sets the rules and delegates authority. Each domain manages itself.
Manages their own participants via self-service portal
self-serviceRegister, publish APIs, manage certificates
Manages their domain independently
self-serviceRegister, publish APIs, manage certificates
The federation operator sets the rules. Domain operators manage their own participants within those rules. Participants self-manage their technical resources. Nobody waits for tickets. Nobody emails spreadsheets. The federation enforces the boundaries automatically.
Policies narrow, never widen
Each level can only constrain further. A domain operator cannot grant permissions the trust anchor hasn't allowed. Governance is hierarchical by design.
Self-service within guardrails
Domain operators get their own portal. They onboard participants, manage resources, and issue certificates — all within the boundaries set by the federation operator.
Machine-readable compliance
Policy violations are detected automatically at the protocol level. No manual review. No audit scrambles. Compliance is built into the trust chain itself.
One pane of glass across every entity
Raidiam Connect gives operators and participants visibility over the structure, status, identity, trust, and assurance posture of all entities in the ecosystem.
Organisations
Sub-Federations
Active APIs
Credential Issuers
Trust Anchors
Bank A - Certificate renewed
2m ago
Fintech X - Onboarding complete
8m ago
Wallet Provider B - Conformance pending
14m ago
IdP Alpha - Metadata updated
21m ago
Verifier C - Trust chain verified
35m ago
This is Raidiam Connect
One control plane across every brand, department, and partner
Your enterprise is an ecosystem — retail banking, private banking, payments, open data, AI agents, partner trust. Each domain has its own services and policies. Raidiam Connect gives you one control plane to govern them all. Add new domains, brands, and use cases without creating another trust island.
Without group-wide federation, every new brand, acquisition, or cross-domain service requires a separate trust integration. That fragmentation costs millions in duplicated infrastructure and months in delayed synergies. Build the enterprise control plane once — then expand as your business grows.
Bank Federation
Enterprise trust root
This is your enterprise platformised. One ecosystem control plane that lets you add domains, brands, partners, and use cases without rebuilding trust every time. Build once. Expand as your business grows.
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Model a country or scheme as a federation
The same architecture that models an enterprise can model a national ecosystem. Banks, fintechs, schemes, regulators, and participants — all governed through one federated trust plane.
National Open Banking Federation
Ecosystem trust root
UK Open Banking
UAE Open Finance
Brazil Open Finance
Open Property
Digital Identity
It does not matter whether the federation models an enterprise, a sector, or a country. The pattern is the same. The scale changes. The operating model changes. The trust architecture does not.
Build the trust layer once. Then expand to open finance, insurance, pensions, and whatever comes next.
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A federation of federations
Multiple sector or national federations can interconnect into larger trust fabrics. A domestic smart data initiative links sectors. A global open finance network links countries. The architecture is the same.
UK Smart Data links property, banking, and energy ecosystems under one governance framework.
National ecosystems remain independently governed but participate in cross-border trust.
Whether linking sectors within a country or ecosystems across continents, the federation architecture is identical.
It does not matter whether the federation models an enterprise, a sector, or a country. The pattern is the same. The scale changes. The operating model changes. The trust architecture does not.
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What only Raidiam Connect can do
Federation is often confused with simpler concepts. Here's what makes an ecosystem control plane fundamentally different.
One trust plane across every brand, jurisdiction, and stack
Your bank is not one stack. Different brands, different geographies, different vendors, different clouds. Raidiam Connect governs trust consistently across all of them.
Your bank has multiple brands, jurisdictions, and technology stacks. Raidiam Connect doesn't replace any of them — it provides the trust and federation layer that governs participant identity, certificates, and policy consistently across all of them.
Where will your ecosystem take you?
Whether you're a regulator building a national digital economy, an enterprise platformising across brands and clouds, or a bank that wants to stop rebuilding trust for every new use case — there's a next step.
See It in Action
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See the Proof
Brazil started with 2 data-sharing scopes. Today it has hundreds — all on the same infrastructure
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