As digital fraud becomes increasingly more sophisticated, the need for trusted digital identity verification also grows.
To address this challenge, Evrotrust has partnered with Trustfull, a leader in digital risk intelligence and fraud prevention. Together, we help organizations assess risk more effectively across the entire digital customer journey, from pre-KYC checks to identity verification and ongoing customer interactions.
By combining Evrotrust’s trusted digital identity infrastructure with Trustfull’s real-time digital intelligence, the partnership gives businesses and public-sector organizations a more complete view of the risk surrounding each digital interaction.
Why fraud prevention should start before KYC
Traditional identity verification and KYC processes often begin after a prospective customer has already entered the onboarding flow. However, important fraud signals can appear much earlier.
Trustfull analyzes hundreds of digital signals associated with phone numbers and email/IP addresses. These signals can help identify disposable contact details, inconsistencies between identity attributes, proxy usage, and other indicators of elevated fraud risk.
This digital risk intelligence can be applied before formal KYC begins.
A pre-KYC risk assessment allows organizations to evaluate prospective customers at the earliest stages of onboarding, identify higher-risk applications sooner, and determine where additional verification or enhanced due diligence may be appropriate.
This approach can help organizations apply stronger controls where they are needed while reducing unnecessary friction for legitimate customers.
How Evrotrust and Trustfull strengthen digital identity verification
Evrotrust provides eIDAS-compliant digital identity and complementary trust services that enable businesses and public institutions to verify and authenticate users remotely.
Evrotrust’s digital identity services are already used by more than 300 organizations and over 1.8 million registered users. Our identity verification capabilities support identity documents from more than 60 countries.
Trustfull adds another layer of intelligence by evaluating digital signals linked to the user and the interaction.
Together, Evrotrust and Trustfull enable organizations to combine digital identity verification with real-time fraud risk intelligence within existing onboarding and fraud prevention workflows.
This gives organizations a broader view of digital identity risk throughout the customer lifecycle, including:
- Pre-KYC risk assessment
- Remote identity verification
- Customer onboarding
- Fraud prevention
- Ongoing digital interactions
The goal is to help organizations answer two important questions:
- Is this person’s identity verified?
- What is the level of risk associated with this digital interaction?
Lovro Persen, Director Documents and Fraud at Evrotrust, commented:
“As digital identity becomes more widely adopted across financial services, government and other regulated sectors, customers increasingly need to understand not only whether an identity is verified, but also the digital risk surrounding an interaction. Combining Evrotrust’s trusted identity capabilities with Trustfull’s digital intelligence allows us to give customers that broader context while supporting secure digital growth across markets.”
What are the benefits of combining pre-KYC risk intelligence with identity verification?
Bringing pre-KYC risk intelligence and digital identity verification together can help organizations identify suspicious activity earlier and make more targeted decisions during onboarding.
Potential benefits include:
- Detecting inconsistencies and suspicious digital patterns earlier
- Identifying weak digital footprints that may indicate higher fraud risk
- Deciding which users can proceed directly to identity verification
- Applying additional checks to higher-risk applicants
- Blocking suspicious users earlier in the onboarding process
- Reducing unnecessary verification costs
- Limiting friction for legitimate customers
These capabilities support a more risk-based approach to digital onboarding and fraud prevention.
Which industries can benefit from stronger digital identity and fraud prevention?
The Evrotrust and Trustfull partnership is particularly relevant for organizations operating in regulated or high-risk digital environments.
These include:
- Financial services
- Lending
- Payments
- Telecommunications
- Public-sector digital services
Across these sectors, digital identity assurance, anti-money laundering controls, KYC, and fraud prevention are becoming increasingly interconnected.
The partnership also combines Evrotrust’s strong presence across Central and Southeast Europe with Trustfull’s cross-border digital intelligence capabilities.
The two companies will pursue joint commercial opportunities across Europe, initially focusing on regulated industries and organizations operating across multiple markets.
How does the partnership support eIDAS 2.0 and the EU Digital Identity Wallet?
The partnership comes as Europe’s digital identity ecosystem continues to evolve under eIDAS 2.0.
As reusable digital identities and the EU Digital Identity Wallet become more widely adopted, verified digital credentials are expected to be used across a growing number of digital services.
In this environment, verifying the identity credential itself remains essential. Organizations will also need additional risk intelligence to understand the context in which a verified identity or credential is being used.
Combining trusted digital identity with real-time risk signals can help organizations make more informed decisions while maintaining secure and user-friendly digital experiences.
Alex Tonello, SVP Global Partnerships at Trustfull, commented:
“Evrotrust has built a highly trusted digital identity platform with particularly strong reach across Central and Southeast Europe. By combining their identity capabilities with Trustfull’s pre-KYC and digital risk intelligence, we can help organizations detect risk earlier, focus verification where it is needed most and build stronger fraud controls across the customer journey.”
Building safer digital onboarding across Europe
Effective fraud prevention does not have to mean adding more checks for every customer.
A stronger approach is to identify risk earlier and use that intelligence to determine when additional verification is necessary.
By bringing together Evrotrust’s regulated digital identity infrastructure and Trustfull’s real-time digital risk intelligence, the partnership supports smarter and more secure digital onboarding across Europe.
Organizations can assess risk before KYC, verify identities remotely, apply additional controls where necessary, and reduce unnecessary friction for legitimate users.
For Evrotrust, the partnership supports our broader mission to help businesses and governments transform their processes, build sustainable digital channels, and deliver secure digital services at scale.
