Companies that keep digital identity verification in-house face a pronounced exposure to adversarial bots and agents: 53% report know-your-agent (KYA) related incidents or losses, compared with 28.8% of firms using a mix of internal and external teams and 24.1% of those relying on external providers....
Former xAI and Google staffer Tina Oberoi is in talks to raise $50 million in seed funding for a startup called Moir that is focused on combating deepfakes by enabling individuals to prove their identity online, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21), citing an unnamed source....
Plaid and digital identity wallet ID.me launched a benefits payments partnership, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. The collaboration is designed to combine ID.me’s wallet with Plaid’s financial account verification tools, letting government agencies confirm that the account receiving a payment belongs to...
Card theft and account breaches remain major threats, but some of today’s fastest-growing fraud schemes begin earlier by targeting identity itself. Criminals increasingly use artificial intelligence to build false identities and mimic real voices and faces well enough to slip past existing checks. That leaves...
October 01, 2026
Companies that keep digital identity verification in-house face a pronounced exposure to adversarial bots and agents: 53% report know-your-agent (KYA) related incidents or losses, compared with 28.8% of firms using a mix of internal and external teams and 24.1% of those relying on external providers. The difference shows that the way identity verification is operated […]
September 17, 2026
Card theft and account breaches remain major threats, but some of today’s fastest-growing fraud schemes begin earlier by targeting identity itself. Criminals increasingly use artificial intelligence to build false identities...
August 21, 2026
Financial firms have confidence to spare in digital identity systems, even when the results leave plenty of room for improvement. The January 2026 PYMNTS Intelligence report “Digital Identity Verification in...
August 19, 2026
A Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)-observed pilot is testing whether completed customer verification work can be documented in standardized records and evaluated by other financial institutions. The pilot is being...
September 21, 2026
Former xAI and Google staffer Tina Oberoi is in talks to raise $50 million in seed funding for a startup called Moir that is focused on combating deepfakes by enabling individuals to prove their identity online, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21), citing an unnamed source. Oberoi has begun funding talks with investors at a $250 […]
September 17, 2026
Plaid and digital identity wallet ID.me launched a benefits payments partnership, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. The collaboration is designed to combine ID.me’s wallet with Plaid’s financial...
September 10, 2026
IDScan.net, a provider of identity verification models, has posted a notification of data security incident on its website. In the notification, IDScan.net said it received information on or around Sept....
July 24, 2026
World Foundation raised $52.5 million in new funding to bring World ID technology to organizations, consumers and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The organization raised the new funding by selling to strategic investors WLD tokens...
