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Already the leader in financial services, the new financing will support Socure's rapid expansion across every consumer-facing vertical including online gaming, healthcare, telco, e-commerce, and on-demand services. "The Socure team accurately predicted the immediate need for identity verification solutions in industries like banking and fintech, and we're excited by the tremendous opportunity as Socure expands to support new industries."

Managing risk arising from remote work has largely been reactive, and risk managers have had to adapt to new digital threats that weren't necessarily as prevalent when work was done from a physical office. Risk managers need to think proactively about how working remotely impacts their organization's exposure to risk and how to mitigate potential breaches.

What digital identities could be, if we put data privacy at their core, is selective. Each time it's needed, your digital identity only reveals what needs to be revealed at that time and keeps the rest of your data safely hidden.

During the past year, digital leaders deployed a remote workforce, engaged customers via contactless delivery and weathered various business disruptions throughout the year. Through investing in digital strategies and expediting transformation efforts, the leaders-defined as those with digital processes and mindsets in place-seized growth opportunities, established new business functions and outlined a future-forward path.

GLEIF has launched a CA Stakeholder Group to facilitate communication between GLEIF, CAs and TSPs from across the world, as they collectively aim to coordinate and encourage a global approach to LEI usage across digital identity products. The collaboration announcement follows news last year that ISO has standardized the process of embedding LEIs in digital certificates.

Data access has become more critical for 53% of survey respondents throughout the pandemic as analytics workloads and demands increase significantly, according to a survey conducted by Enterprise Management Associates. The survey found that half of respondents have data in five or more data storage platforms.

Companies have significantly sped up their digital transformation efforts in the past year, a theme anticipated to persist beyond the pandemic, according to F5. With limited in-person interactions, applications have become synonymous with an organization's presence and ability to thrive. This is especially the case when managing broader application portfolios that span multiple generations of application architectures.

Mastercard is expanding the Engage platform, offering customers easy access to a growing network of qualified technology and fintech partners that can quickly deploy Mastercard Digital First solutions. These solutions will enable customers to provide entirely digital payment experiences for consumers, from acquisition and card usage to management and engagement, with a physical card option.

Consumers have faced a lot of change over the past year with the shift to a digital-first lifestyle, and tax season with increasing risks is no exception. According to the IRS, Criminal Investigation identified $2.3 billion in tax fraud schemes during FY2020.

As a key factor that underlies digital technology development, computing is now defining the productivity of the digital economy era. According to an IDC whitepaper, economic growth directly correlates with the development of computing, economic growth directly correlates with the development of computing-one point of growth in the computing index translates to a 3.3‰ rise in the size of the digital economy and a 1.8‰ growth in GDP. Specifically, AI computing market share is projected to continue on this upward trajectory.