Digital Identity Friday Five: April 4, 2025

Covering the most interesting news for the week of March 29 to April 4

Today is Friday, April 4. I don’t have five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week. I have ten!

1/ Vouched Welcomes Windsor Tanner as VP of Sales

Congrats, Windsor on joining Vouched!

Vouched also recently appointed Tom Donlea as VP of Business Development

No doubt they’re ramping #GTM in #IDV - building a stellar team, Marita Scarfi & Peter Horadan

2/ Trulioo Appoints Vicky Bindra as Chief Executive Officer

Trulioo announced Vicky Bindra is joining as their new CEO as Steve Munford, previous CEO, retires

Bindra previously held roles at FIS, Visa, Mastercard & Citi

3/ GBG Plc Rebrands, Launches GBG Go

GBG has a new brand and a new marketing offer

GBG Go is "an all-in-one identity platform for fast, easy and safe business growth"

4/ CNET: Goodbye, Zelle® App

Zelle is shutting down their standalone, less than 2% of transactions happen via this channel

Don’t worry, you can still Zelle money via your bank

5/ #NewJersey Governor Signs Bill Criminalizing #Deepfakes

"The new law makes producing and sharing deepfakes a third-degree crime if they are used for an unlawful purpose — say, to harass or extort someone — with fines up to $30,000 or a maximum of five years in prison."

6/ Blend and Prove Partner to Accelerate Digital Onboarding

"This strategic partnership integrates the Prove Pre-Fill® solution directly into Blend’s Consumer Banking platform, driving efficiency across its deposit account, credit card, and consumer loan offerings."

7/ Cardano Foundation Launches #Veridian: A Next-Generation Digital Identity Platform

Cardano Foundation announced the launch of Veridian, an open-source digital identity platform for individuals and organizations

More info at veridian.id

8/ Docusign & Entrust: Future of Global Identity Verification Report

Entrust & Docusign teamed up on a joint global study examining the escalating costs of identity fraud

Interesting stats and data in the report, check it out: peakidv.link/EntrustDL

9/ Report: Key Findings From the 2024 Federal Reserve Financial Services Survey of Risk Officers

The report reveals the significant impact of fraud and the shifting nature of #checkfraud

Report download 🔗 : peakidv.link/FedSurvey

The report reference a resource I hadn’t seen before, a "Synthetic Identity Fraud Mitigation Toolkit"

Synthetic Toolkit: peakidv.link/SyntheticID

10/ authID Raises $8.15 Million

authID infused additional capital via registered direct offering

"Our mission is to eliminate fraud and stop account take overs driven by deep fakes” said CEO Rhon Daguro

And that’s this week’s #epicten

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TRULIOO: peakidv.link/2-ff04-4

GBG: peakidv.link/3-ff04-4

ZELLE: peakidv.link/4-ff04-4

NJ DEEPFAKE: peakidv.link/5-ff04-4

PROVE: peakidv.link/6-ff04-4

CARDANO: peakidv.link/7-ff04-4

ENTRUST: peakidv.link/8-ff04-4

FED: peakidv.link/9-ff04-4

AUTHID: peakidv.link/10-ff04-4