Digital Identity Friday Five: February 21, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of February 15 to February 21
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Today is Friday, February 21. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
First, I’m thrilled to announce another event for the PEAK IDV Spring Roadshow
Fintech Meetup! March 10-13 in #LasVegas
I attended my first #FTMU in 2021 when it was 100% virtual and look forward to the 2025 show which is happening concurrently with MRC | Merchant Risk Council which I will also attend
🔗 peakidv.link/FintechMU
I also want to congratulate Marketplace Risk Founder & CEO Jeremy H. Gottschalk on his upcoming book "Bulletproof Your Marketplace: Strategies for Protecting Your Digital Platform"
Years in the making but most definitely worth the wait!
Congrats, Jeremy!
Pre-order 🔗 peakidv.link/Bulletproof
1/ Forbes: The 50 Hottest Fintech Startups In 2025
Forbes published its 2025 list of hot #fintech companies
Congrats to #IDV & #fraudprevention companies Alloy, DataVisor, Persona, & SentiLink for making it on this list 🚀
This year's Forbes list was sponsored by FIS
Full list 🔗 peakidv.link/Fintech50
2/ Microsoft: Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
MSFT is calling their Majorana 1 chip a major breakthrough
They expect we will have quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades
#quantumcomputing will have also have major impacts on hashtag#cryptography #security & #digitalidentity
3/ ID R&D Delivers Industry Leading Liveness Results in U.S. Department of Homeland Security Evaluation
ID R&D, a Mitek Systems company announced the results of the DHS’s Remote Identity Validation Systems evaluation
"ID R&D’s passive technology not only blocked 100% of imposters but also outperformed the only other solution to achieve this, in areas of accuracy and speed"
According to the press release, their submission is labeled "PAD-P9"
Results deck 🔗 peakidv.link/DHSresults
Congrats Alexey Khitrov, Konstantin Simonchik and the entire ID R&D / Mitek team
4/ LexisNexis Risk Solutions Completes IDVerse - A LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Company Acquisition
LNRS announced it has closed its acquisition of IDVerse, a provider of #documentauth and #frauddetection solutions
"IDVerse's accelerated innovation in this field is impressive, and I'm eager to see how our complementary cutting-edge solutions will combine to take our anti-fraud capabilities to new levels” noted Rick Trainor, CEO of Business Services at LNRS
Congrats, Kimberly Sutherland and team!
5/ Regula Now Supports the Latest Standard for #Biometric Passport Verification
Regula Document Reader SDK extracts and verifies facial data encoded in the e-passport chip under the new ISO/IEC 39794-5 standard
🔗 to standard: peakidv.link/ISO39794
*** LINKS
FORBES: https://peakidv.link/1-ff02-21
MSFT: https://peakidv.link/2-ff02-21
ID R&D: https://peakidv.link/3-ff02-21
LNRS: https://peakidv.link/4-ff02-21
REGULA: https://peakidv.link/5-ff02-21