The G2 Weekly Podcast delivers insights into the world of identity and biometrics. Each week, the podcast will cover important developments in the field, making it a valuable resource for professionals in various sectors.

(December 9, 2025 - December 16, 2025)

• Agentic AI – Hype vs. Threat: Why enterprise buyers are still "kicking the tires" on agentic AI while fraudsters are already sprinting ahead with it, forcing the industry to pivot toward stronger guardrails and cross-signal risk scoring.

• Market Movers & Consolidation: A breakdown of the massive $700M raise by Saviynt and Socure’s strategic acquisition of Qlarifi to stake a claim in the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) risk market.

• The Biometric Border: How travel is transforming with MCO’s biometric boarding pilots (powered by iProov, Aware, and Paravision) and the U.S. previewing a new entry-screening architecture.

• Privacy Clashes & "Surveillance Creep": New scrutiny on Ring revives surveillance concerns, while London expands police Live Facial Recognition (LFR) and Washington’s online safety push collides with Big Tech.

• Workforce & Wallet Wars: From LinkedIn hitting 100M verified users to EU-Canada digital wallet pilots, discover how identity ecosystems are shifting toward passkeys and reusable credentials to fight impersonation fraud.

• Deepfake Defense: Why the surge in AI-driven fraud is driving deepfake-defense integrations (like 1Kosmos + Reality Defender) and making "layered liveness" the new standard for trust.

Analogy for the week: The current state of Agentic AI is like a high-performance sports car; legitimate businesses are still reading the manual in the dealership lot, while fraudsters have already hotwired it and are speeding down the highway, forcing security teams to rapidly build speed bumps (liveness and governance) to slow them down.

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