Authentication

Digital Identity
Stripe Alums Raise $35 Million for Identity Platform Duna
February 05, 2026

Compliance/identity platform Duna has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round. The new funding, announced Thursday (Feb. 5), will help Duna as it works towards its goal of building a “global trust infrastructure” by offering a “digital passport for every business,” leading to...

Digital Onboarding
Credit Unions Face Onboarding Test as 70% of Small Businesses Prefer Digital Start
January 28, 2026

Small businesses may say they value relationships, but when basic digital tasks still require a phone call or branch visit, loyalty starts to look temporary. That was the core message of PYMNTS Intelligence’s November Credit Union Tracker, “Business at Risk: How Credit Unions Can Attract...

Digital Identity
Synthetic IDs and Agent Bots Force Banks to Rethink Verification
January 21, 2026

Growth in a digital world requires standout digital infrastructure and tooling. That’s supported by findings in the new report “When ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Enough: Digital Identity Verification in the Age of Bots and Agents,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo. The report revealed that...

Digital Identity
Banks Overestimate Their Identity Defenses to the Tune of $34B a Year
January 16, 2026

As financial services firms push deeper into digital channels, identity verification has quietly become one of the most consequential—and most underestimated—forces shaping growth, risk and customer experience. “When ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Enough: Digital Identity Verification in the Age of Bots and Agents,” a collaboration between...

Biometrics
Clover Adds Face and Palm Payments With Wink Partnership
January 07, 2026

Fiserv-owned commerce solution Clover has launched a partnership with biometric identity/payments platform Wink. The collaboration integrates Wink’s face and palm payments technology into Clover’s platform, the companies announced in a Wednesday (Jan. 7) news release. “The new solution will enable Clover merchants to offer the...

Authentication
Fraudsters Test the Limit of Banks’ Defenses
December 17, 2025

Fraudsters no longer break in by force alone. Increasingly, they persuade, fatigue or impersonate their way past defenses that were designed to stop credential theft but now sit at the center of more complex attack chains. The shift is showing up in data. The PYMNTS...

Digital Identity
Data Partners Emerge as the Unsung Heroes of Digital Identity
December 17, 2025

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Trulioo’s Hal Lonas Payments and commerce security relies on the verification of identities to reduce fraud and keep transactions flowing securely across a global ecosystem. At Trulioo, Chief Technology Officer Hal Lonas said the biggest lifts often come from...

Authentication
Why Authentication Now Determines Conversion Rates
December 16, 2025

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Entersekt’s Dewald Nolte The most important players in digital commerce are usually the ones consumers never see. They work behind the scenes, building systems that keep authorization moving, eliminate outages and secure transactions even during the busiest shopping moments...

Digital Identity
Nearly 60% of Companies Struggle With Bot Fraud
November 05, 2025

In the age of AI agents and synthetic identities, the biggest risk to corporate security may be complacency. Most firms think their digital identity systems are working, and that misplaced confidence is costing them real money. According to “The Hidden Costs of ‘Good Enough’: Identity Verification...