Sumsub Recognized as a Forrester Leader, Leading the Identity Verification Wave in 2025
Recently, the globally renowned technology and market research firm Forrester released The Forrester Wave™: Identity Verification Solutions, Q3 2025 report.
Among the 20 top vendors evaluated worldwide, Sumsub was strongly recognized as a “Leader,” thanks to its outstanding strategic vision and product capabilities.
Based on 15 rigorous criteria, the report provides a comprehensive evaluation of industry frontrunners—from company strategy and product capabilities to real customer feedback. Standing out among many strong competitors, Sumsub’s recognition as a Leader marks the highest level of independent third-party validation of its leadership in digital trust and anti-fraud.
Top Scores Demonstrate Hard-Core Strength
This evaluation covered multiple key dimensions. Notably, Sumsub achieved the highest scores in half of the strategy criteria—precisely the areas that represent the core competitive strengths of today’s identity verification solutions:
- ✅ Business verification (KYB)
- ✅ Case management
- ✅ Email- and paper-based identity verification
- ✅ Public-record-based verification
- ✅ Innovation, vision, and partner ecosystem
These results not only demonstrate the breadth and depth of Sumsub’s solutions, but also highlight its unique advantages in addressing complex business environments and high-level fraud challenges.
Why Was Sumsub Named a “Leader”?
The Forrester report provides an in-depth analysis of Sumsub’s success factors, revealing three key pillars behind its industry leadership:
》Forward-Looking Strategic Vision
Sumsub has built an exceptional vision centered on AI-driven anti-fraud investigation algorithms, physical identity verification, no-code workflows, and intelligent case management.
With a consistently customer-centric innovation approach, Sumsub continues to optimize applications across multiple verticals, including finance and technology. Its clear product roadmap and strong partner ecosystem keep its strategic foresight at the forefront of the industry.
》Comprehensive and Leading Technical Capabilities
- Highly configurable: Administrative permission settings stand out, supporting custom roles and flexible associations, giving customers a high degree of autonomy.
- Outstanding verification capabilities: Sumsub excels in public-record and physical document verification, ensuring data authenticity through integrations with government data sources. Its ability to verify non-ID documents and proof of address gives it a distinct advantage in business verification services.
- Advanced technology protection: In key differentiating technologies such as deepfake detection, phone number verification, and behavioral biometrics, Sumsub meets industry-leading standards, effectively countering increasingly sophisticated fraud methods.
》Continuous Innovation and Global Expansion
In 2025, Sumsub launched a reusable digital identity product suite, expanded non-document verification solutions, and upgraded AI-driven case management tools for real-time financial crime investigations. At the same time, its continuously expanding global coverage provides seamless support for customers operating internationally.
Customer Recognition and Market Adoption
The Forrester report notes that Sumsub’s users highly praise the platform’s configurability. It also identifies Sumsub as particularly well suited for organizations with stringent business verification requirements and a strong focus on both physical ID and non-ID document verification.
Over the past decade, Sumsub has provided more than 4,000 organizations worldwide with end-to-end anti-fraud identity verification solutions covering account creation, verification, login, transactions, and account closure. Its modular design enables tailored solutions to meet diverse customer needs.
About the Forrester Wave™ Evaluation
The Forrester Wave™ is a globally recognized evaluation framework that provides authoritative guidance for enterprise technology procurement through systematic research, analysis, and scoring.
This identity verification solutions evaluation selected the 20 most influential vendors in the industry and assessed them across three core dimensions—current product capabilities, strategy, and customer feedback—classifying vendors into Leaders, Strong Performers, and Contenders.
In an era where digital identity fraud methods continue to evolve, choosing a strong, reliable, and forward-looking identity verification partner is more critical than ever.
As Sumsub’s Asia-Pacific partner, Youyueda (DKMECO) remains committed to introducing world-leading identity verification solutions to enterprise customers, helping them achieve secure compliance and sustainable growth.
As demonstrated by Sumsub’s outstanding performance in the Forrester Wave™, this recognition is not only an honor, but also clear proof of its technical strength and market leadership. Partnering with Youyueda and Sumsub means choosing to move forward alongside an industry leader—together building a safer, more trustworthy digital future.