Digital Identity Friday Five: May 16, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of May 10 to May 16
Today is Friday, May 16. Here are five things in digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
This week, I was in #SanFrancisco at Marketplace Risk Management Conference!
Check out my recap + highlights: peakidv.link/MRMC25recap
Let’s get into the updates!
1/ Bureau Appoints Vanita Pandey as CMO
Bureau announced it has appointed Vanita Pandey as their new Chief Marketing Officer
In this role, she will spearhead the company’s global go-to-market (#GTM) engine and power its next phase of growth
Vanita recently served as CMO of Caf and previously held leadership roles at PayPal & Visa
Congrats, Vanita and Ranjan R Reddy!
2/ Babel Street Promotes Benji Hutchinson to CEO
In another major executive appointment, Babel Street promoted Benji Hutchinson from Chief Revenue Officer to Chief Executive Officer
Benji brings decades of #digitalidentity expertise ROC, Paravision, and IDEMIA
Congrats, Benji!
3/ iDen2 Expands Leadership Team
iDen2 announced an expansion of its leadership team filling key roles in #identity, #product, and #growth
Marius Scurtescu – Identity Infrastructure
Rodolfo Ergueta – Product
Erika Hakala – Marketing & Growth
Congrats, Alfy Louis on the continued forward momentum
4/ Plaid Expands IDV Suite to Counter #GenAI Attacks
Plaid’s Danica Kleint, Product Marketing Manager & Anthony Sezer, Product Manager announced new security features to make it harder for fraudsters to manipulate or bypass identity verification
The features include risk-based escalations, selfie re-authentication, and trust index risk checks
Congrats on the product launch!
More info is in the link to their blog below 👇
5/ WIRED: Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
Wired published an interesting article about the rise of AI-driven fraud
#deepfakes #syntheticidentity & #LLMs are supercharging bad actors
The article highlights startups like GetReal Labs and Reality Defender
Are we facing a #digitaltrust apocalypse?
That was the theme of the most recent PEAK IDV & The Prism Project #livestream event featuring host C. Maxine Most
Check it out here: peakidv.link/TPP3beam
And that’s this week’s #fridayfive
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BUREAU: peakidv.link/1-ff05-16
BABELSTREET: peakidv.link/2-ff05-16
IDEN2: peakidv.link/3-ff05-16
PLAID: peakidv.link/4-ff05-16
WIRED: peakidv.link/5-ff05-16