Socure CEO Johnny Ayers to Speak at LendIt Fintech USA 2021

Ayers to join thought leaders and industry experts to discuss solutions for preventing fraud and securing data in a post-pandemic world

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Socure, the leader in 100% digital identity trust, today announced that Founder and CEO, Johnny Ayers, will join LendIt Fintech USA as a speaker during the “The New Arms Race: Keeping Up With Fraudsters Post-Covid” session.

With the shift to all digital during the pandemic, a lot of companies have either had to focus on security and data for the first time or are dealing with them in numbers they have not seen before. This session is meant to look at the various solutions available to fintechs and banks to help them to secure data, use their data in a more secure way, and help ensure fraudsters do not gain access to the data.

WHO: Johnny Ayers is the Founder and CEO of Socure.

An industry expert in the areas of fraud, authentication, and identity verification, Ayers is driven by the company’s mission to ensure 100% trusted identity for every application and transaction on the Internet. Ayers recently led Socure’s $100 million Series D funding round, which catapulted the company to a valuation of over $1 billion. He has helped craft, commercially scale, and deploy Socure’s industry-leading ID+ platform into some of the largest Fortune 500 companies and across numerous verticals.

WHAT: “The New Arms Race: Keeping Up With Fraudsters Post-Covid” session will take place as part of the Credit and Underwriting Put to the Test portion of the event.

WHEN: April 27th from 3:35 PM - 4:15 PM ET.

WHERE: Registration for LendIt Fintech is available here and at www.lendit.com/usa/2021/register/.

About Socure

Socure is the leader in digital identity verification technology for Day Zero and beyond. Its predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, device, velocity, and the broader internet to verify identities in real-time. The company has more than 400 customers across the financial services, gaming, telecom, and eCommerce industries, including three top five banks, seven top 10 card issuers, three top MSBs, multiple tier one payroll providers, the top credit bureau, and over 100 of the largest and most successful fintechs. Marquee customers include Chime, Varo Money, Public, Stash, and DraftKings.

Socure recently received numerous industry awards and accolades including being named to “Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2021,” awarded “Best New Technology Introduced over the Last 12 months – Data and Data Services” at the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs), ranked number 70 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, listed as a Gartner Cool Vendor, recognized by Forbes as one of the “Top 25 Machine Learning Startups to Watch,” named to CB Insights: The Fintech 250, and awarded Finovate’s Award for Best Use of AI/ML, to name a few.