New strategic partnership will help accelerate Canada’s digital verification ecosystem to modernize service delivery, help reduce fraud, and enhance the client experience across public and private sectors.
TORONTO (December 16, 2025) – A trusted, scalable approach to verification is essential for Canada’s digital economy. To help address this need and enable a privacy-preserving, Canada-centric digital verification ecosystem, Interac Corp. (Interac) is working with MATTR, a global leader in digital trust infrastructure.
The strategic partnership brings together the proven, standards-based global credentialing infrastructure from MATTR with Interac’s deep Canadian market knowledge and experience in digital verification. With this integration, Interac VerifiedTM strengthens its position as a trusted Canadian platform for issuing, managing, and verifying digital credentials – giving organizations a more seamless and scalable way to adopt credentials. With MATTR’s infrastructure, Interac Verified will provide participating organizations with a complete platform that supports the entire lifecycle of digital credentials.
“As the world moves from physical identification towards privacy-preserving digital credentials, aligning with an established global standard is critical. Canadian organizations expect a frictionless verification solution that helps reduce fraud,” says Fatema Pirone, Head of Interac Verified. “This partnership accelerates our ability to deliver a secure, efficient, and privacy-first credential service tailored to the needs of Canadian organizations and the people they serve. Interac is uniquely positioned to anchor these global standards within a Canadian regulatory and trust framework.”
Through this collaboration, public and private-sector clients will be able to modernize service delivery, strengthen fraud prevention, improve customer experience, and help reduce overall costs with Interac Verified. Benefits will include:
- Trusted, standards-based digital credentials for governments that can be issued securely to citizens and businesses, strengthening access to programs and services.
- Credentials that Canadians will be able to use with participating businesses and government services to improve convenience, support privacy and enhance control over access to personal information.
- A flexible foundation for Canadian organizations that will help meet a wide range of verification needs, from onboarding and age verification to credentializing qualifications, memberships, or entitlements.
The result will be an improved customer experience that builds trust and helps to accelerate digital prosperity, while also supporting reduced costs and complexity for organizations.
“Interac is a highly trusted brand in the Canadian market with deep expertise in identity-related services, which is why this partnership is so significant,” said Claire Barber, CEO of MATTR. “Bringing our global, standards-based credentialing infrastructure to Interac will help build a more secure, efficient, and interoperable digital economy in Canada, and we’re proud to be a part of that.”
The landscape of digital verification is complex and constantly evolving. Interac is committed to working with Canadian organizations to navigate this space and solve their unique verification challenges. Organizations can connect with Interac to explore how the Interac Verified platform can support their goals here.
About Interac
Interac empowers Canadians to transact digitally with confidence by providing payment and value exchange services. In helping to develop the future of money movement in Canada, security is at the core of everything we do. We help keep Canadian customers safe and secure when transacting. With nearly 300 financial institutions connected to our network, Canadians choose Interac products over 20 million times a day on average to exchange money. Interac champions workplace culture, community, and corporate citizenship. We are proud to be one of Canada’s leading and most trusted financial brands.
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Interac and Interac Verified are trademarks of Interac Corp.
About MATTR
MATTR builds foundational digital trust infrastructure for the modern world. Its credentialing technology enables people and organizations to share trusted information securely and privately, empowering new forms of confident, privacy-preserving digital interactions anywhere.
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