Americas Series with David Yakobovitch: Socure - identity verification and security for financial transactions in a Digital First Society

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/">David Yakobovitch</a> discussed with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnyayers/">Johnny Ayers</a>, CEO and Founder of <a href="https://www.socure.com/">Socure</a>, about the rise of identity verification and security for financial transactions in a Digital First Society.  This episode featured a conversation on leading FinTech startups that are enabled by technology at Socure and similar exciting Finance ventures such as Public, <a href="https://www.stash.com/">Stash </a>and <a href="https://robinhood.com/us/en/">Robinhood</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Topics included uncovering the powerful technology that Socure has built for identity fraud, anti-money laundering, and end-to-end predictive analytics.  Notable startups discussed on the episode included <a href="https://www.hellobrigit.com/">Brigit</a>, <a href="https://www.earnin.com/">EarnIn</a>, and <a href="https://dave.com/">Dave.com</a>. </p><ul> <li>With its focus on binary classification and over 9 billion rows of weekly data, Socure has built three new, industry-changing solutions: <a href="https://www.socure.com/products/intelligent-kyc-compliance">Intelligent KYC</a>, <a href="https://www.socure.com/products/document-verification">DocV</a> and <a href="https://www.socure.com/products/sigma-synthetic-fraud">Sigma Synthetic Fraud.</a>  </li> <li>Socure announced in the second half of 2020 a  funding round of $35 million (<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200825005286/en/Socure-Closes-New-Round-of-Funding-with-Participation-from-Major-Banks">here</a>), and recently has entered the online gaming industry (<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210115005109/en/Socure-to-Power-Responsible-Growth-for-Online-Gaming-Operators-in-Eleven-U.S.-States-with-Intelligent-KYC">here</a>). </li> <li> Socure is solving for the first ML model to verify 100% of good IDs and completely eliminate identity fraud on the Internet.  </li> <li>Johnny Ayers’ 2021 trend predictions on fraud in