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LuxTrust

LuxTrust is the Luxembourg public-private joint venture that runs the country's national digital-identity and qualified electronic-signature infrastructure, and is effectively the backbone that lets Luxembourgish citizens, banks, and corporates sign contracts, file taxes, and access sensitive public services online with legally binding eIDAS-qualified signatures. Founded in 2005 and co-owned by the Luxembourg state alongside most of the country's major banks, LuxTrust has become one of the largest qualified trust service providers in the EU and one of the reference implementations of how an EU member state can stand up an interoperable, bank-grade identity layer ahead of the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) rollout.

For the directory, LuxTrust is a rare example of a core sovereign-tech asset that has the commercial surface area of a scale-up, and a useful anchor for understanding Luxembourg's outsized role in European digital-identity and regtech.

LuxembourgLuxembourg CityGrowthDigital IdentityTrust ServicesRegtechCybersecurity

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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

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