Digital Identity Friday Five: January 17, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of January 11 to January 17
Today is Friday, January 17. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
But first, congrats to Kevin Cruickshank and Engage PSG Search on their 5 year anniversary! 🚀
If you have executive search or recruiting needs in Data & Insights, Digital Identity, FinTech, RegTech, Fraud, Cyber, Risk & Compliance technology, SaaS or Enterprise Technology, be sure to engage Engage
And now the updates!
1/ Identity & Payments Veteran Tom Donlea joins Vouched
CEO Peter Horadan announced Tom as Vouched’s new VP of BD
Many know Tom for his nearly 10 years at Ekata, a Mastercard company
He spent the last 5 years overseas and is back in the #USA
Welcome back, Tom!
2/ Prove Acquires Portabl (acquired by Prove)
Prove announced the acquisition of Portabl, a digital identity company specializing in reusable ID verification
Portabl’s Co-founder & CEO Nate Soffio joined the company as Head of Reusable Identity Solutions
"Acquiring Portabl, with their deep expertise of identity standards and consumer experiences, accelerates Prove's leadership in this space." said Daniel Killmer, SVP Head of Product at Prove
Congrats, Nate and team!
#reusableidentity #portableidentity
3/ Identity.com introduces new App
Identity.com announced a new app that leverages verifiable credentials #VCs
It is available in Apple App Store and Google Play
"Our mission with Identity.com is to bring trust, privacy, and simplicity to digital identity," said Phillip Shoemaker, Executive Director of Identity.com
4/ Regula Launches Full Support for Digital Travel Credentials
Regula announced an update to its Document Reader #SDK
Their software now fully supports the new Digital Travel Credential (DTC) format, aligned with the International Civil Aviation Organization (#ICAO) standards
"With Regula Document Reader SDK, travelers can create their own digital credentials by extracting a Virtual Component (DTC-VC) from a physical electronic identity document like ePassport." said the release
5/ Quantifind Raises $22M, Launches Payments Risk Intelligence Solution
Quantifind announced $22 million in new funding
Quantifind’s Graphyte Platform leverages #namescience & other #innovations in #AMLscreening #transactionmonitoring & #financialcrime tools which they’re bringing to #payments
"Graphyte for payments transaction monitoring and screening represents the culmination of our commitment to delivering unmatched speed, accuracy, and scalability," said Ari Tuchman, CEO and co-founder of Quantifind
Congrats, Ari! Love to see your growth 🚀
And those are this week’s #fridayfive
*** LINKS
VOUCHED: https://peakidv.link/1-ff01-17
PROVE: https://peakidv.link/2-ff01-17
IDENTITY.COM: https://peakidv.link/03-ff01-17
REGULA: https://peakidv.link/04-ff01-17
QUANTIFIND: https://peakidv.link/05-ff-01-17