Swisscom and Sunrise Launch World’s First Telco Fraud Intelligence Consortium with LexisNexis #

Switzerland’s two largest telecom operators, Swisscom and Sunrise, have joined forces with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to create what the three companies describe as the world’s first fraud risk consortium for the telecommunications sector. The initiative, built on the LexisNexis® Risk Intelligence Consortium framework and powered by ThreatMetrix® technology, began operations in early 2025 before being publicly announced in July 2026.

The consortium enables Swisscom and Sunrise to share digital risk signals with one another in near real time, creating an early warning system that allows each operator to act on threat intelligence generated by the other. When a fraud attempt is detected and blocked by one member, the other is immediately alerted, allowing it to identify and stop the same threat actor before any damage is done. According to the companies’ announcement, the system also supports the assessment of credit application risk in addition to fraud and financial crime prevention.

A privacy-by-design architecture underpins the arrangement, ensuring risk intelligence sharing stays within the boundaries of Swiss data protection regulation. LexisNexis Risk Solutions has operated similar consortium models in banking and gaming for years through its global Digital Identity Network, but the Swiss telco partnership is the first time the framework has been extended to the telecommunications industry.

Michael Hohermuth, fraud manager at Swisscom, said the arrangement has enabled a shift toward a more proactive fraud strategy, with the ability to act on high-risk signals before an attack materialises. Anna Hayford, fraud manager at Sunrise, noted that sharing intelligence in near real time means both operators can see threats as they emerge rather than after damage has occurred, a level of agility she said would be impossible for either company to achieve independently.

Cybercriminal networks routinely probe multiple organisations in sequence, making defences that rely on a single carrier’s data increasingly limited. By pooling threat intelligence across two carriers that together serve the majority of Swiss mobile and broadband subscribers, the consortium aims to cut the time available to fraudsters operating in the Swiss market.

Source: LexisNexis Risk Solutions