Digital Identity Friday Five: May 9, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of May 3 to May 9
Today is Friday, May 9. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
But first, the past few days, I’ve been at Finovate in #SanDiego learning, networking and recording conversations using Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses 👓
Let me know if you like the PEAK IDV POV format and I’ll record more at future trade shows
Now the updates!
1/ Nametag Joins IDPro® to Support the Future of Digital Identity
Nametag announced it joined IDPro®, community of Identity & Access Management (IAM) practitioners
"Generative AI, deepfakes, and nation state-backed infiltration campaigns are creating new challenges for IAM and cybersecurity experts." said the press release
Congrats to both organizations on the collaboration!
2/ Joseph Chong Appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Incode
In a LinkedIn update, Joseph Chong announced he joined Incode as their new CMO
"We have an amazing mission to power a world of trust and a vision of providing one identity everywhere." said Joseph in his post
Welcome to the industry, Joseph! Buckle up, it’ll be a fun ride! 🚀
3/ Biometric Update: Deepfake prism refracts fraud landscape ‘supercharged’ by generative AI
Joel R. McConvey did an excellent write-up on the recent PEAK IDV presents... The Prism Project Deepfakes & Synthetic Identity Three Beam Stream!
This event was produced by PEAK IDV LIVE and hosted by C. Maxine Most with featured panelists from DuckDuckGoose AI, AuthenticID, and Keyless
Joel did a great job summarizing key points and quotes from Parya, Blair, and Tobin
Expect some video clips from the event soon!
Until then, you can watch the stream here: peakidv.link/TPP3beam
4/ Duna raises €10.7M seed round
Dutch business identity platform Duna raised a €10.7 million seed round from Index Ventures
#Businessidentity and #KYB is a hot market
Some interesting news this week about Middesk & Baselayer - but won’t be covering that
Duna’s founders David Schreiber and Duco van Lanschot were early Stripe employees
They held C-suite roles at Trade Republic Bank and identity company Fourthline
Congrats, on the raise!
5/ Finovate Spring 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced
Yesterday evening, #FinovateSpring announced its "Best of Show Winners"
Congrats to this year’s winners:
** Bits of Stock™
** Finalytics AI
** Herd Security
** Illuma
** Penny Finance
** Solda.AI
See you at the next one!
*** LINKS
NAMETAG: peakidv.link/1-ff05-09
INCODE: peakidv.link/2-ff05-09
DEEPFAKES: peakidv.link/3-ff05-09
DUNA: peakidv.link/4-ff05-09
FINOVATE: peakidv.link/5-ff05-09