TORONTO, April 1, 2026 /CNW/ – Dye & Durham Limited (TSX: DND) (“Dye & Durham“), a leading provider of cloud-based legal practice management software, today announced the enhancement of its Unity® Practice Management (“Unity®“) platform by giving customers more choice with the integration of Treefort Identity Verification (IDV). The addition of Treefort’s identity verification solution to Unity® reflects Dye & Durham’s commitment to offering legal professionals flexibility with how they manage client identification. By integrating Treefort, Unity® clients can now select the option best suited to their workflow, client needs, and regulatory requirements.
This expanded choice empowers legal professionals to streamline their processes, reduce reliance on manual checks or external tools, and seamlessly leverage advanced digital verification technology directly within their trusted platform. As identity fraud risks increase and compliance demands become more complex, having multiple secure verification options helps legal practitioners adapt to evolving industry standards and enhance both efficiency and security in real estate transactions.
As new regulatory changes and heightened scrutiny continue to shape the legal industry, secure client identification and trust have never been more crucial for Canadian legal professionals. Unity® IDV integrations are designed to help legal professionals strengthen fraud prevention and securely transmit highly sensitive customer Personally Identifiable Information in an evolving regulatory landscape.
“Integrating Treefort’s third-party ID verification technology into Unity® reflects our commitment to innovation and enhancing value, giving legal professionals tools designed to support regulatory compliance that match the realities of today’s market,” said Pablo Rodriguez, President, Dye & Durham Canada. “By offering integrated verification capabilities directly within the platform they already use, we are helping make real estate transactions more efficient and secure from fraud for both Canadian firms and individuals.”
By embedding identity verification into the workflow, Unity® customers can more efficiently confirm client identities at the outset of an engagement without relying on manual processes or switching between separate tools. This helps support our customers in meeting Know Your Client (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements, while reducing exposure to increasingly sophisticated fraud in real estate transactions.
Treefort’s digital identity verification platform uses multi-factor authentication and data analysis to verify identities beyond reviewing government-issued identification alone. Designed for Canadian legal professionals, the platform is intended to support compliance with FINTRAC requirements and Law Society client identification rules.
The integration follows Treefort’s achievement of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF) Verified Person Trustmark from the Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). This independent certification is intended to validate, based on DIACC’s assessment, the platform’s applicable identity proofing and security controls.
“Earning the DIACC trustmark reflects the depth of security built into Treefort’s platform,” said Jay Krushell, Chief Legal Officer at Treefort. “By integrating our verification tools directly into Unity®, legal professionals can enhance their identity verification processes, support compliance with KYC and AML requirements, and help mitigate fraud risks for homebuyers from increasingly sophisticated fraud.”
Treefort IDV is now available to Unity® Practice Management customers across Canada. Unity® is available nationally and facilitates approximately 1,000 real estate transactions per day. Unity® is one of the most widely used conveyancing platforms supporting legal professionals across Canada.
About Dye & Durham Limited
Dye & Durham Limited provides premier practice management solutions empowering legal professionals every day, delivers vital data insights to support critical corporate transactions and enables the essential payments infrastructure trusted by government and financial institutions. The company has operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. Additional information can be found at dyedurham.com.
About Treefort
Treefort is a Canadian identity verification platform that provides advanced multi-factor identity verification to help organizations reliably and securely confirm the identities of their clients. Built and operated in Canada, Treefort securely stores all data within the country, is SOC2 compliant and complies with Canadian regulatory requirements, including those set by Law Societies and FINTRAC. Treefort is also a PCTF-certified member of the Canadian Digital Identification and Authentication Council (DIACC), ensuring the platform aligns with nationally recognized standards for digital identity and trust frameworks. With a strong focus on data security and privacy protection, Treefort helps businesses safeguard sensitive information while delivering a secure and seamless verification experience for their customers.
To learn more about Treefort, visit https://treeforttech.com/.
Forward-Looking Information
This press release may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements regarding the expected benefits, functionality and impact of the Unity® platform enhancements. Forward-looking information is based on current expectations and assumptions and is subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially.
Forward-looking information is based on management’s current expectations and assumptions, including assumptions regarding customer adoption, technology performance, third-party integrations, regulatory environments, and market conditions. Such information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking information.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, changes in market conditions, competitive pressures, customer preferences, technological developments, third-party dependencies, regulatory changes, and other risks described from time to time in Dye & Durham’s public disclosure filings available under its profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
Although Dye & Durham believes the forward-looking information contained in this press release is reasonable as of the date hereof, there can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Dye & Durham undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
SOURCE Dye & Durham Limited
For more information: Dye & Durham, Carmela Antolino, VP, Marketing & Communications, E: [email protected]; Treefort, Kristen Dawson, Vice President of Operations, E: [email protected]
