The increasing digitization presents new
possibilities for innovating in established sectors.
This entails an increasing demand in privacy and
transparency to instil digital trust.
This thesis presents how established structures
and ecosystems within the financial sector
payment landscape and digital identity
management systems could be changed due to
the EU initiatives of PSD2 and eIDAS 2.0.
The thesis presents deployment proposals to
illustrates how the Self-Sovereign Identity and
Financial-grade API frameworks could be
utilized for realizing the novel trust relationship
among the entities within the payment
landscape, while accommodating an increased
demand in data privacy, transparency and trust.