Toronto, October 23, 2025 – We are thrilled to announce that FCT Client ID Verification has been certified against the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework ™(PCTF) Verified Person Component at LOA2. Established in 2012, DIACC is Canada’s largest multistakeholder organization, exclusively addressing digital trust and identity verification, fostering confidence and consistency in the market through its internationally recognized framework and standardized third-party conformity assessment program.
Legal professionals today face a daunting task: safeguarding sensitive client information while navigating ever-changing regulatory landscapes as technology evolves rapidly. To address this, FCT’s Client ID Verification solution has successfully achieved certification against the DIACC Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF), ensuring its solution meets the highest bar for security and trust.
The PCTF enhances digital trust relationships across the Canadian ecosystem based on legal, policy, and technical requirements to which organizations agree to adopt, which includes best practices, policies, technical specifications, guidance, regulations, and standards, prioritizing interoperability, privacy, security, and trustworthy use of digital identity and personal data.
“Earning certification against the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF) demonstrates FCT’s dedication to protecting Canadians’ personal information while supporting the legal community’s shift toward digital transformation,” said Joni Brennan, President of DIACC. “This
achievement shows how trusted digital identity solutions can simplify compliance, strengthen security, and make digital services safer for everyone.”
Purpose-built for Canadian legal professionals, FCT’s Client ID Verification is a quick, secure, digital solution designed to authenticate client IDs in minutes, whether in person or online. By aligning with the PCTF, we can ensure personal data is managed, stored and secured with the highest standards of protection, so that legal professionals can always move forward with confidence.
This certification guarantees that legal professionals’ client data is handled with the highest level of trust and security. FCT’s Client ID Verification meets KYC obligations, providing consistent quality that reduces risk, builds trust and helps legal professionals adopt digital workflows to meet regulatory requirements.
Seamless workflow integration is at the heart of our solution. By integrating into the tools legal professionals already use and minimizing manual data entry, ID verifications can be completed efficiently while maintaining accuracy and compliance. Clients retain control of their information on their own devices, stored in their secure digital wallet, streamlining the verification process and reducing duplicate data entry errors.
“FCT’s completion of the DIACC Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF) certification demonstrates our commitment to delivering best-in-class identity verification and fraud detection products that empower legal professionals to work with confidence. Legal professionals trust FCT to help them navigate an increasingly risky environment. FCT’s Client ID Verification meets the highest national standards and delivers on our core brand promise of supporting legal professionals with secure digital workflows that drive efficiency and build trust with our clients at every step.” – Ryan Lambert, Vice President, data and strategy.
With FCT’s Client ID Verification, legal professionals can feel confident knowing they are using a solution built to the highest national standards, helping them manage sensitive information responsibly, reduce audit failure risk and keep pace with regulatory changes. By providing clear benchmarks for ID verification solutions, we are working to support the digital transformation of the legal sector, while ensuring functional benefits like compliance, reduced risk and workflow efficiency.
About DIACC
Established in 2012, DIACC is a non-profit strategic alliance of public and private sector members committed to advancing full and beneficial participation in the global digital economy by promoting PCTF adoption and conformity assessment. DIACC prioritizes personal data control, privacy, security, accountability, and inclusive people-centred design. To learn more about DIACC, please visit https://diacc.ca/
About FCT
Since introducing title insurance to Canada in 1991, FCT has continued to lead the way with innovative solutions that simplify and streamline the real estate process. Today, they have significantly expanded their offerings to become leaders in property intelligence, residential and commercial solutions, residential lending solutions, and asset recovery. Their diverse lines of business support partners and customers across the entire real estate lifecycle.
About FCT Client ID Verification
It provides a quick, secure digital solution for legal professionals to meet their FINTRAC and KYC obligations effortlessly. Lawyers and Notaries can authenticate their client’s identity using technology that performs many types of validation, including biometric matching between a live selfie and portraits extracted from identity documents, analyzes government-issued identity documents, including cryptographic verification of ePassports, to check against a multitude of compliance data points, including credit bureau and mobile account verification directly on their smartphone. In minutes, the verified credential is issued and stored in the client’s mobile phone’s secure digital wallet, and the report can be accessed directly by the legal professional from FCT’s ID verification portal.
Media Contact:
Joni Brennan
President
Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC)
communications@diacc.ca
