Banqup SA is officially listed on the Belgian Trusted List as a Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP), offering four certified trust services under the eIDAS regulation.

This is a significant step for Banqup and for the businesses and organisations that rely on its platform every day. It means that digital signatures, seals, and the certificates that power them can all originate from a single, regulated, and EU-recognised source.

What being a QTSP actually means

The eIDAS regulation creates a clear legal framework for electronic transactions across all EU member states. At the top of that framework sit Qualified Trust Service Providers, organisations that have undergone independent conformity assessments and been formally recognised by their national supervisory authority.

In Belgium, that authority is the FPS Economy. Being listed on the Belgian Trusted List isn't self-declared. It requires passing an independent audit by an accredited conformity assessment body, and then repeating that audit at least every 2 years to maintain the status.

Banqup SA has completed that process. Four services are now certified, including:

• QCert for ESig issues Qualified Certificates for Electronic Signature to individuals. These certificates back Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES), which carry the same legal weight as a handwritten signature under EU law. They're accepted in courts and legally valid across all 27 member states.

• QCert for ESeal does the same for organisations. Instead of binding a certificate to a person, it binds one to a legal entity. When a company seals a document with a certificate issued under this service, it proves that the document came from that organisation and hasn't been changed since.

• QRemManage for QSigCD manages the remote infrastructure that makes individual signing possible without a physical smart card. The signer's private key lives in a secure, cloud-hosted Hardware Security Module (HSM). When someone signs, they authenticate remotely, the signing happens inside the HSM, and the key never leaves it. Banqup manages that device: provisioning it, keeping it active, and decommissioning it when the time comes.

• QRemManage for QSealCD is the same service, but for organisational seals. It allows companies to seal documents at scale through an API, without hardware on-site. An ERP system can trigger the sealing of thousands of invoices automatically. The sealing key stays in Banqup's managed HSM, and every operation is controlled by the organisation.

Why it matters for businesses using Banqup

If you use Banqup to send e-invoices, manage documents, or handle payments, trust is already built into what you do. The QTSP certification makes that trust official and legally recognised across the EU.

This means the qualified infrastructure is already part of the platform you use. And it means that when regulations tighten, as they are with eIDAS 2.0 coming into full effect, Banqup is already positioned to keep you compliant.

For accountants handling client documents, for businesses exchanging contracts, for finance teams sealing high-volume invoice batches: the qualified layer is there, certified, and ready. More on that soon.

“By delivering remote qualified electronic signatures (QES) and seals (QESeal) under eIDAS 2, Banqup gives organisations legally recognised trust across all 27 EU member states.”  - Hans Boone, Banqup Trust Services