Industry experts estimate synthetic identity fraud costs the financial industry as high as $95 billion a year, and the most damaging attacks pass every verification check without triggering a single alert.

Tedd Huff, CEO of fintech advisory firm Voalyre and founder of Fintech Confidential, brings 25 years of payments and fraud infrastructure experience to a direct conversation with Hal Lonas, Chief Technology Officer of Trulioo, the identity verification platform trusted by Google, JP Morgan Payments, Stripe, Airbnb, and Meta.

Lonas explains why detection rates hide more than they reveal, how fraudsters now add intentional imperfections to AI-generated deepfakes to beat detection systems, and why agentic commerce requires an entirely new verification layer beyond KYC and KYB. The conversation covers Trulioo's Know Your Agent (KYA) framework, the Digital Agent Passport, Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), and the privacy regulation debate most compliance teams have not fully worked through.

1️⃣ Ask your identity vendor for their false negative rate, not just their detection rate, and demand specific numbers.

2️⃣ Build continuous monitoring into your post-onboarding workflow so your system is still watching on day 30, 60, and 90.

3️⃣ Audit every automated decision model in your stack and document the logic before your next regulatory exam.

4️⃣ Map your verification flow and tier friction based on real-time risk signals instead of running flat checks on every customer.

5️⃣ Get your compliance and growth teams in the same room with a shared dashboard showing fraud loss rates and abandonment rates side by side.

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Under.io streamlines application and underwriting by digitizing PDFs for digital signature: under.io/FTC

Skyflow is a zero trust data privacy vault delivered as an API, covering PCI, CCPA, GDPR, SOC 2, and beyond: skyflowsecure.com

DFNS provides wallets as a service, API first, multi-chain, secured with MPC, used by Stripe, Fidelity, and others: fintechconfidential.com/dfns

Hawk AI offers real-time payment screening, AML monitoring, and dynamic customer risk rating to reduce false positives: gethawk.com

Hal Lonas is the Chief Technology Officer of Trulioo, where he leads technology strategy, product development, and engineering. He co-founded BrightCloud, a cloud-native threat intelligence company, and previously served as CTO at Webroot, Carbonite, and OpenText before joining Trulioo in 2021.

Trulioo is a global identity verification platform operating across 195 countries, covering 14,000+ ID document types, 6,000+ watchlists, and 700 million business entities.

Tedd Huff is CEO of Voalyre and founder of Fintech Confidential. The show is produced by DD3 Media and brings you the people, tech, and companies that change how you pay and get paid.

00:00 Introduction

01:28 Meet Trulioo CTO

02:48 From Space to Security

04:11 Dfns: Wallets as a Service (sponsor)

05:32 Sleeper Accounts Explained

08:33 False Negatives Metric

11:43 Explainable Adaptive ML

13:23 Deepfakes Raise Stakes

15:03 Asymmetric Defense Signals

17:51 Privacy Versus Safety

21:25 Sky Flow: Building Fast and Secure (sponsor)

22:27 Friction Based Risk

24:16 Case Study ConsenSys

26:04 Know Your Agent Future

27:52 Agent Passport Checks

32:43 Open Standards AP2

34:35 Are Defenders Losing

36:05 Leader Advice Wrap

40:37 Final Thoughts and Outro

41:36 Hawk AI - Realtime Fraud Monitoring (sponsor)

42:23 Disclaimer

Disclaimer: The information provided in this episode is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice.

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