TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has been named a 2026 Future Digital Awards Gold Winner for Best Branded Call Solution in the Telco Innovation Awards Category, presented by Juniper Research.

The award celebrates the industry’s most forward-thinking companies in roaming, messaging, networks, and fraud prevention. Juniper Research is a global tech strategist firm providing research, data, and forecasting across the fintech, telecoms, and IoT sectors.

“The explosive growth of branded calling across the world is a clear indicator it works when it comes to helping businesses enhance outreach and protect themselves and consumers from fraud,” said James Garvert, Senior Vice President, TransUnion Communications Solutions. “We’re honoured to receive this award, and proud to be part of the solution when it comes to restoring trust in the phone.”

TransUnion’s Branded Call Display allows businesses to establish trust with their customers by showing a verified name, logo, and reason for call. In addition, TransUnion verifies calls with end-to-end STIR/SHAKEN call authentication to help ensure they are legitimate and not spoofed.

“In India, trusted communication is becoming foundational to how businesses engage consumers at every stage of their lifecycle. As mobile-led interactions continue to grow, Branded Call Display is helping businesses establish credibility by ensuring consumers can clearly identify who is calling and why,” said Natarajan Ramani, Head of TransUnion India Data Analytics Solutions (INDAS). “This recognition reinforces the broader trust infrastructure we are building through enabling enterprises to reach consumers with confidence, and consumers to respond with confidence. We are proud to see this work recognised, and even more proud of the impact it creates across India's rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.”

TransUnion’s Branded Call Display also received the following honours in 2025:

• TMC Communications Solutions Product of the Year

•  Stevie Winner (Silver) for Technology Excellence: Technology of the Year

•  Internet Telephony Excellence Award

•  The Fast Mode Awards: Digital Identity Innovator

Learn more about TransUnion’s Trusted Call Solutions.

About Juniper Research

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About TransUnion INDAS (NYSE: TRU)

TransUnion is a global information and insights company with over 13,000 associates operating in more than 30 countries and territories, including India, where we operate as TransUnion India Data Analytics Solutions (INDAS).

Through our acquisitions and technology investments we have developed innovative solutions in areas such as fraud, marketing, communications, and alternative data. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good® — and it leads to economic opportunity, great experiences, and personal empowerment for millions of people around the world.

For more information visit www.transunion.in

“While the COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented business disruptions, it has compelled the industry to speed up and revitalize digitalization and data-analytics across systems, processes and operations. The power of credit information analytics has proven its efficacy by enabling the quick and smooth implementation of Government relief schemes like the moratorium, ECLGS and EGPS, and by helping find and fund good borrowers. In-order to keep pace with dynamic market trends, evolving consumer behavior and economic changes, there is a need for continuous innovation and learning on data analytics. TransUnion is committed to the holistic development of the financial technology ecosystem in India. We believe that the TransUnion Sandbox Experience will help catalyze and further strengthen India’s data ecosystem, foster trust among market participants and help accelerate economic development and financial inclusion for nation building,” explained Mr. Rajesh Kumar, MD & CEO, TransUnion CIBIL.

The first TransUnion Sandbox Experience is designed for the FinTech lending ecosystem  and has around 200 contestants from the FinTech Industry. The contest is organized across three business problem statements or tracks. Each competing team has to pick one of the problem statements on which they will be able to do model development across a 72-hour period. One team in each track, comprising of two individuals from the same organization, are allowed to compete. The contest has grand prizes and recognition in store for the participants and winners – first prize is a cash award of 6 lakhs and second prize is a cash award of 4 lakhs for the winning teams across each track.

FinTech lending industry players are enthusiastic about the TransUnion Sandbox Experience. Speaking about the value this contest brings, the founder and CEO of PayU Credit, Mr. Prashanth Ranganathan said: “We see tremendous potential of data analytics-based solutions in helping us identify potential customers and drive access to financial opportunities for many more deserving consumers across our country. The TransUnion Sandbox Experience has a great construct to foster collaboration and co-creation, bringing the brightest minds in the industry together solving for the collective good.”

DMI Finance Private Limited is yet another key contestant and explaining the objective of their participation, its Co-Founder and Managing Director Mr. Shivashish Chatterjee, said: “The credit data ecosystem in India is at an inflection point where the industry is just starting to separate the signal from the noise. Forums like the TransUnion Sandbox Experience are promoting ideation, innovation and evolution for not on the FinTech industry but the broader consumer and SME credit sector. The problems that participants will tackle and the solutions they will be able to find and test in this contest will be instrumental in augmenting the credit lifecycle management for all lenders and keep India at the forefront of data innovation.”

The first TransUnion Sandbox contest for FinTech industry players will be held from 12^th-15^th Jan 2021. “The FinTech lending industry is providing access to finance through approximately 13 million loans as of 2019 to the tune of INR 230 billion. Access and experience for FinTech players on world class data analytics technology is essential to empower them further so that they can contribute to driving greater economic resurgence and financial inclusion. We’re attempting to provide support and motivation to FinTech lenders through our first Sandbox Experience contest,” concluded Rajesh.

In order to foster responsible innovation in financial services, promote efficiency and bring benefit to consumers, the Reserve Bank of India has also initiated an enabling framework for Regulatory Sandbox (RS). The RS is, at its core, a formal regulatory programme for market participants to test new products, services or business models with customers in a live environment, subject to certain safeguards and oversight.