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TELUS Digital Expands Partnership with Sumsub to Deliver End-to-End Identity Verification and Fraud Prevention Solutions

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TELUS Digital Expands Partnership with Sumsub to Deliver End-to-End Identity Verification and Fraud Prevention Solutions
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TELUS Digital Expands Partnership with Sumsub to Deliver End-to-End Identity Verification and Fraud Prevention Solutions

2025-05-07 18:44 Last Updated At:19:21

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2025--

TELUS Digital Experience (TELUS Digital) (NYSE and TSX: TIXT), a leading global technology company specializing in digital customer experiences, today announced it has expanded its partnership with Sumsub, a full-cycle verification platform that secures the whole user journey. The partnership further enables TELUS Digital to deliver seamless, end-to-end trust and safety solutions to its clients to help keep their customers and companies safe while meeting global compliance requirements.

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Since 2024, TELUS Digital has been successfully using Sumsub’s platform to support the secure ID verification and onboarding of its global AI community performing remote tasks. With this expanded partnership, these same capabilities are now available to TELUS Digital’s clients in industries where customer trust and compliance are critical factors, including banking, financial services and insurance, and telecom.

Global demand for digital identity tools is surging, driven by rising instances of fraud, regulatory pressures, and the rising need for secure, scalable onboarding, according to a 2025 Everest Group report.

“As fraud becomes more sophisticated, our clients need seamless, secure, and compliant ways to onboard customers and employees, and verify identities at scale,” said Monty Hamilton, Chief Product and Marketing Officer, TELUS Digital. “ Recent global research we commissioned shows that in 2025, the majority of large enterprise CX decision-makers are prioritizing and investing in ID verification and fraud detection capabilities, underscoring how critical these capabilities have become. This partnership with Sumsub reflects our broader approach of fusing expert human talent with advanced, AI-powered technologies to empower our clients to address increasingly complex and frequent digital attacks and threats, helping them stay focused on serving their customers with confidence.”

ID verification and fraud prevention may help drive operational savings and financial gains

TELUS Digital clients can now benefit from the company’s full suite of ID verification and fraud prevention tools, which can be strategic drivers of both cost efficiency and revenue expansion, including:

Responding to the rise of fraud

Industry-wide fraud is rising, and technology is making it easier to deploy and harder to detect. Last year, 67% of firms reported a fraud increase, and businesses lost an average of about $300,000 per fraud event, according to Sumsub's Identity Fraud Report 2024. This uptick is being driven by AI-powered scams like deepfakes, synthetic identities, and advanced social engineering tactics that are harder to detect using traditional tools.

At the same time, companies are under mounting pressure to catch fraud early, or absorb the financial losses. In the UK, mandatory reimbursement rules for authorized push payment (APP) fraud, where customers are tricked into sending money to scammers, came into effect in October 2024. Similar regulations are advancing in the EU under the Payment Services Regulation, and in the U.S. through the Protecting Consumers from Payment Scams Act.

“Across industries, organizations are facing growing expectations to strengthen compliance, reduce fraud risks, and onboard customers quickly without adding operational complexity,” said Andrew Sever, co-founder and CEO of Sumsub. “Through our expanded partnership with TELUS Digital, we’re making it easier for clients to meet those demands with flexible, integrated tools that support secure onboarding, real-time verification, and early fraud detection, without disrupting the customer experience.”

TELUS Digital partners with innovative brands to manage risk, reputation, security and safety. With more than 78,000 global team members and an established ecosystem of technology partners, we apply a fusion of human expertise and advanced technologies to safeguard trust. Our Trust & Safety solutions include, but are not limited to: fraud detection, Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB), anti-money laundering (AML), content moderation, ID verification and access management, and a full suite of digital security services.

To learn more about our solutions and suite of ID verification and fraud prevention solutions we are offering through our expanded partnership with Sumsub, visit: telusdigital.com/solutions/trust-safety-security/financial-crime-and-compliance

Read TELUS Digital's report, Safety in numbers, for global insights on 2025 trends in trust and safety, including ID verification and fraud prevention.

About TELUS Digital

TELUS Digital (NYSE & TSX: TIXT) crafts unique and enduring experiences for customers and employees, and creates future-focused digital transformations that deliver value for our clients. We are the brand behind the brands. Our global team members are both passionate ambassadors of our clients’ products and services, and technology experts resolute in our pursuit to elevate their end customer journeys, solve business challenges, mitigate risks, and drive continuous innovation. Our portfolio of end-to-end, integrated capabilities include customer experience management, digital solutions, such as cloud solutions, AI-fueled automation, front-end digital design and consulting services, AI & data solutions, including computer vision, and trust, safety and security services. Fuel iX™ is TELUS Digital’s proprietary platform and suite of products for clients to manage, monitor, and maintain generative AI across the enterprise, offering both standardized AI capabilities and custom application development tools for creating tailored enterprise solutions.

Powered by purpose, TELUS Digital leverages technology, human ingenuity and compassion to serve customers and create inclusive, thriving communities in the regions where we operate around the world. Guided by our Humanity-in-the-Loop principles, we take a responsible approach to the transformational technologies we develop and deploy by proactively considering and addressing the broader impacts of our work. Learn more at: telusdigital.com.

TELUS Digital and Sumsub expand partnership to deliver secure, scalable fraud prevention solutions.

TELUS Digital and Sumsub expand partnership to deliver secure, scalable fraud prevention solutions.

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 15, 2025--

Assent Inc. (Assent), the global leader in supply chain sustainability management, announces Request Manager, the industry’s first AI-native solution that addresses the critical pain point of how suppliers efficiently manage and respond to customer compliance and sustainability requests. Built on the market-leading Assent Sustainability Platform, Request Manager empowers suppliers to deliver accurate, high-quality regulatory data, declarations, and supporting documentation with greater speed and efficiency through a single, streamlined workflow to reduce management effort, lower compliance costs, and mitigate supply chain risk. The solution will launch for new Assent customers in January 2026.

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Request Manager enables suppliers to manage all customer requests in one centralized location through AI-powered parsing, matching and re-use of verified data, as well as a proactive declaration sharing function that allows suppliers to anticipate customer requests.

“Request Manager represents a breakthrough in how suppliers and distributors can stay ahead of escalating compliance expectations. It transforms a historically fragmented process by harnessing the data already embedded in the Assent Sustainability Platform to deliver speed, time savings, and scale,” said Michael Southworth, CEO of Assent. “As we extend our offering to the broader supply chain, this marks a pivotal moment for Assent — a new standard for supplier engagement that enables proactive compliance and helps create a more connected and resilient network where organizations can respond with confidence to reduce risk.”

Regulatory frameworks are in constant flux and are becoming increasingly complex. At the same time, manufacturers and distributors face an unsustainable volume of customer requests. Additionally, supplier contracts now include greater obligations that can disqualify those who fall short. Request Manager is Assent’s answer to this industry-wide breaking point: a secure, centralized hub that unifies all compliance and sustainability requests into one streamlined workflow.

Assent research shows that 80% of businesses still rely on email and fragmented spreadsheets to manage the growing volume of compliance requests. The data also revealed manufacturers receive an average of 350 requests per year, while distributors often face thousands, each of which may contain hundreds of part-and-regulation line items that must be interpreted and completed. With each request taking roughly three hours to complete, many manufacturers spend more than 1,000 hours a year on manual compliance and sustainability request management processes.

Elisa Morelo, Senior Analyst at Verdantix, highlighted the need for a solution dedicated to suppliers, “The surge in the volume and complexity of compliance requests is putting intense pressure on suppliers to deliver high-quality data in a timely manner. We believe AI can play an extremely important role in this category in terms of helping suppliers manage the scale of requests and reducing supplier fatigue, as well as streamlining manual processes and improving data quality.”

With Request Manager, suppliers will be able to:

“My team depends on me to never miss a deadline or customer request, but with our previous process, the volume of requests we received each day was overwhelming,” said Jessica Adams, Quality Technician at Durex Industries. “Quick and accurate responses are essential to maintaining our commercial relationships. Since implementing Assent’s Request Manager solution, all the information my team and I need is in one place. I can respond faster and with greater confidence, and I’m able to focus on other critical parts of my job.”

Learn more about Request Manager here.

Organizations interested in early access to Request Manager can register here.

About Assent

Assent provides the leadingsupply chain sustainability management solutionand is on a mission to become the global platform of record for supply chain sustainability and compliance for manufacturers. Founded in 2010, Assent is the only company that unifies platform, people, and supplier intelligence to future-proof supply chains amid global disruption. Powered by AI, we enable faster, smarter compliance — from risk analysis to automated document review — while delivering unmatched speed, cost efficiency, and confidence. With a proprietary supplier engagement engine and deep regulatory expertise built into our platform and services, Assent helps customers navigate complexity, reduce risk, and accelerate growth.

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