QTSP (qualified trust service provider)
A provider audited and listed on the EU Trusted List to issue qualified e-signatures, seals, timestamps and certificates under eIDAS - the highest legal standard for signing in the EU.
eIDAS distinguishes ordinary trust services from qualified ones: a QTSP passes conformity audits, is supervised nationally, and appears on the EU Trusted List. A qualified electronic signature (QES) from a QTSP is legally equivalent to a handwritten signature EU-wide.
With the EUDI Wallet arriving in 2026, QTSPs become the anchor of reusable European identity. Fintechnologica flags QTSP as its own licence type - the register is public and verifiable, like a financial licence.
Primary source: Regulation (EU) 910/2014 (eIDAS) · EU Trusted List browser
In the verified data
- 7 qualified trust service providers are profiled here (Aruba, A-Trust, D-Trust, Evrotrust, InfoCert, Namirial and Yousign), across 5 countries - each checked against its national trusted list, which feeds the EU Trusted List.
- They sit inside a digital identity category of 16 live providers, where the others are identity schemes and verification vendors without qualified trust-service status in our data.
Recomputed from the catalogue and the official EBA, ESMA and FCA registers on every build — how we verify.
Questions to ask a provider
- Are you on the EU Trusted List for the exact qualified service I need - signature, seal or timestamp?
- Which national body supervises you, and when was your last conformity assessment?
- How will your signatures and identity services work with the EUDI Wallet once my users have one?