Digital Identity Friday Five: March 14, 2025

Covering the most interesting news for the week of March 8 to March 14

The Digital Identity Friday Five is brought to you by ⁠Identity Intelligence⁠ - Your free guide to digital identity (www.identintel.com)

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Today is Friday, March 14. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week

First, I’d like to thank MRC | Merchant Risk Council & Fintech Meetup for an incredible week in #LasVegas 🙌

What’s next in the PEAK IDV Spring Roadshow?

I'm at Finovate #SanDiego May 7-9 and Marketplace Risk #SanFrancisco May 12-14

Call for Speakers is still open for #MRMC25 until March 20!

🔗 peakidv.link/MRMCSF25

And now the updates!

1/ The Prism Project Highlights 25 Influential Women Leaders in Digital Identity

In honor of International Women's Day, Acuity Market Intelligence recognized 25 women leaders in #biometric digital identity

Congrats to all the leaders highlighted in the announcement

C. Maxine Most you should be in this list too!

Special shout-out to those women I’ve met in my journey:

Frances Zelazny, Cindy White, Kim Martin, Kristine Champion, Kay Chopard, Teresa Wu, Kimberly Sutherland, Parya Lotfi, Evelyn Ju, Donna Shawhan, Susan Amick, Angela Diaco, Emma Lindley MBE, Kathleen Peters, & Rivka Gewirtz Little

Thank you for being awesome!

Hope to meet the rest of you soon

2/ Aware, Inc. Appoints Brian Krause as CRO

Ajay Amlani and Aware announced digital identity industry veteran Brian Krause has joined as the company’s new Chief Revenue Officer

Brian previously led North America P&L at Incode and was VP of Global Revenue at Veriff

Congrats, Brian!

3/ Facephi Accelerates Air Travel with #KYP (Know Your Passenger) Solution

As someone that travels a lot, I’m very interested in #biometric travel innovations

According to their press release, Facephi developed technology that enables identity validation before arriving at the airport, reducing wait times and ensuring a seamless and secure travel experience

The experience was tested in collaboration with International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Congrats, Javier Mira and team!

4/ AuthenticID and Authvia Join Forces to Provide Secure, Frictionless Digital Payments

#IDV pioneer AuthenticID announced a new partnership with Authvia

AuthenticID’s #identityverification will be integrated into Authvia’s Text-to-Pay and Conversational Commerce solution

"The partnership represents a major leap forward in secure, AI-powered payments and identity verification," said Chris Brunner, Authvia’s Founder/CEO

Congrats to both companies on the collaboration!

5/ Kivra acquires Truid

Rounding out the g#fridayfive, Kivra announced its acquisition of Truid

Kivra is Sweden’s leading platform for secure digital communication

Henrik Lönnevi, CEO of Kivra, noted:

"Kivra and digital identity wallets go hand in hand, and with Truid’s expertise, we can accelerate the development of a platform that ensures secure data sharing."

Congrats, Anders Borg Sundgren!

*** LINKS

PRISM PROJECT: https://peakidv.link/1-ff03-14

AWARE: https://peakidv.link/2-ff03-14

FACEPHI: https://peakidv.link/3-ff03-14

AUTHENTIC: https://peakidv.link/4-ff03-14

TRUID: https://peakidv.link/5-ff03-14