Mr. Monty Hamilton reports

TELUS DIGITAL EXPANDS PARTNERSHIP WITH SUMSUB TO DELIVER END-TO-END IDENTITY VERIFICATION AND FRAUD PREVENTION SOLUTIONS

Telus International (Cda) Inc. (Telus Digital) 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.

Since 2024, Telus Digital has been successfully using Sumsub's platform to support the secure ID verification and onboarding of its global AI (artificial intelligence) 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 [customer experience] 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:

• Faster customer onboarding through real-time ID verification, face matching and biometric authentication, streamlining know-your-customer (KYC) and know-your-business (KYB) processes to verify individuals and businesses quickly and securely, lowering operational costs;
• Simplified compliance with automated checks of customers against global watch lists, sanctions databases and anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations, helping clients meet regulatory requirements with confidence, potentially avoiding costly penalties and legal expenses;
• Advanced fraud detection that flags high-risk activity, such as forged documents, inconsistent geolocation data or duplicate identities, leading to fewer and smaller financial losses for businesses;
• Flexible set-up options that allow clients to integrate these tools into their existing systems, through full API (application programming interface) connections, low-code platforms or customizable configurations for technical and compliance teams.

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 per cent 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 United Kingdom, 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 European Union under the Payment Services Regulation and in the United States 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 chief executive officer 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, Telus Digital applies a fusion of human expertise and advanced technologies to safeguard trust. Telus Digital's trust and safety solutions include, but are not limited to: fraud detection, KYC, KYB, AML, content moderation, ID verification and access management, and a full suite of digital security services.

About Telus International (Cda) Inc.

Telus Digital crafts unique and enduring experiences for customers and employees and creates future-focused digital transformations that can withstand disruption and deliver value for its clients. Telus Digital is the brand behind the brands. Telus Digital's global team members are both passionate ambassadors of the company's clients' products and services, and visionary technology experts resolute in Telus Digital's pursuit to elevate their end customer journeys, solve business challenges, mitigate risks and drive continuous innovation. Telus Digital's portfolio of end-to-end, integrated capabilities includes digital solutions, such as cloud solutions and AI-fuelled automation, trust, safety and security services, AI and data solutions, including expertise in computer vision, and front-end digital design and consulting services. Fuel iX is Telus Digital's proprietary generative AI platform and suite of products at the heart of the company's innovation, helping enterprises advance their pilots to working prototypes and production at scale, quickly, securely and responsibly across multiple environments, applications and clouds.

Powered by purpose, Telus Digital leverages technology, human ingenuity and compassion to fuel remarkable outcomes and create inclusive, thriving communities in the regions where the company operates around the world. Guided by its humanity-in-the-loop principles, Telus Digital takes a responsible approach to the transformational technologies it develops and deploys by pro-actively considering and addressing the broader impacts of its work.