You built for one country. Now go global. Without starting over.
The foundations you built for a domestic ecosystem extend internationally. National federations can interconnect into cross-border trust fabrics — without rebuilding. UK Smart Data links sectors. Global Open Finance links countries. The architecture is the same.
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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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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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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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.
The ecosystem control plane powering the world's largest digital economies
Brazil Open Finance
- —940+ institutions
- —100B+ API calls/year
Central Bank of Brazil
Brazil Open Insurance
- —42 providers
- —1.18M monthly API calls
Superintendência de Seguros Privados
Australia ConnectID
- —Big Four banks
- —10M+ customers
Australian Payments Plus
NZ Fraud Data Sharing
- —NZBA member banks
- —Fraud prevention network
New Zealand Banking Association
UAE Open Finance
- —Central Bank of UAE
- —National ecosystem
Central Bank of UAE
UK Smart Data
- —Cross-sector trust
- —Open Banking origins
UK Government / FCA
Our clients include central banks, payment scheme operators, and globally systemically important financial institutions. We don't build point solutions. We operate the ecosystem control plane that the world's financial system depends on. They built once. They keep expanding.
Raidiam is a founding contributor to OpenID Federation and actively shapes the standards that define how digital trust ecosystems work globally. OpenID Federation is the standard. Raidiam Connect is the ecosystem control plane that makes it work at national scale — and lets it expand to whatever comes next.
Built on 10+ years of battle-tested standards
Where will your ecosystem take you next?
The same ecosystem control plane covers all of these. Your investment in one use case is your investment in every use case.
Open Banking
Start with open banking. Expand to open finance and beyond.
Smart Data
Banking infrastructure extends to energy, telecoms, property, pensions.
Digital Identity
Same control plane. Now governing wallets and credentials.
Payments
CoP, VRP, and pay-by-bank — same foundations.
Enterprise
Platformise your business across brands, clouds, and partners.
Regulators
Build the platform for the digital economy.
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
See how one investment in Raidiam Connect covers your first use case — and the next hundred
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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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