On this week’s State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D’Ambrosi and Russ Cohn, General Manager, International at OCR Labs dive into the growing digital identity space. They discuss why digital identity is breaking out of pigeonholes around risk and compliance that have been held for so many years, and how OCR Labs is differentiating itself among a crowded field of competitors in the IDV and Doc space.

Open finance and APIs are driving a new era of financial innovation that will fuel new use cases and business models for financial institutions and fintechs. David Whitcomb, Vice President of Product at MX and Crystal Anderson, Vice President of Product Management at MX join the State of Identity podcast to define “Open Finance,” how it’s part of the Open Banking movement, and will explain how financial institutions can benefit from open finance and drive innovation vs. leaving it to the latest fintech app.

In this month’s Investing in Identity series, we examine what a bear market indicates for high growth sectors like identity. This month’s agenda features:

• Wall Street is on the cusp of a bear market. What does this mean for identity solutions and what are the market indicators to watch?
• Advice to startup founders and investors in the identity market with money at stake
• This month’s movers and shakers: LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires BehavioSec, to bolster their predictive behavioral biometrics, continuous authentication, and fraud prevention capabilities