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Know Your Customer Tenure

API Description
Use Cases
  • API customers can validate the level of trust of a user whenever their phone number is used as an identifier for their online activities e.g. onboardings, transactions, etc.
  • Support to mobile phone authenticators like Number Verification API or One Time Password SMS API, because it gives higher level of trust to authenticate a phone number with large tenure than with low.
  • Support of Know Your Customer Match API onboardings, because it gives higher level of trust to validate the KYC identity of a user with large tenure than with low.
  • Strengthens fraud detection processes by identifying recently activated phone numbers that may indicate fraudulent activity.
  • Enhances identity verification in digital platforms by offering an additional trust factor based on phone number tenure.
  • Supports financial services in evaluating user credibility, reducing the likelihood of identity fraud in lending, banking, and payment transactions.
Benefits
  • API customers can quickly and easily establish a level of trust of their users who are associated with a specific phone number, based on how long they have been associated with that number in a specific Mobile Network Operator (MNO).
  • Increases the level of trust of the mobile identity products.
  • Reduces the risk of identity theft and fraud.
  • Reduces the risk of fraudulent transactions.
  • Ease of use, transparent to customers.
  • No customer data is shared, as only a binary match result is given for each attribute.
  • Provides an additional layer of security for digital identity validation and fraud prevention.
  • Optimizes automated risk scoring models by incorporating verified phone tenure data.
  • Enhances customer onboarding efficiency by reducing the need for manual verification steps.

API Portfolio: Authentication and Fraud Prevention

SubProject Wiki: Know Your Customer
(incl. how to meet the team)

API Wiki: Tenure

API Repository: Tenure

API Repository Status: Sandbox

API Status: Initial

API Version(s) and Release Date(s):

  • v0.1.0 (11.03.2025), Spring25 meta-release

API availability: Information which APIs are available in which country and network, and how to get access can be found on the GSMA public launch status page.

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