"The day also featured conversations about broader, more general identity trends in the travel industry. Jay Meier of FaceTec looked at the potential benefits (and pitfalls) of mobile IDs and digital driver’s licenses, while Maxine Most of Acuity Market Intelligence put forward a new paradigm for thinking about digital identity. Frost & Sullivan’s Danielle VanZandt, meanwhile, discussed how the travel and hospitality industry has responded to COVID-19."

"The accelerative impact of the COVID pandemic on the identity verification market is akin to a ‘Rogue Wave,’ Acuity Market Intelligence Principal Analyst and Chief Strategist Maxine Most writes"

"Maxine Most is warning that the surging identity verification (IDV) market could prove to be a mixed blessing for many technology providers. Most is the Principal Analyst for Acuity Market Intelligence, and has previously described the recent flurry of IDV investment as a Tornado that is lifting every player in the market.."

"The story quotes Deutsche Bank research predicting that the number of people carrying digital wallets will increase from 2.3 billion in 2020 to 4 billion globally by 2024. Acuity’s Maxine Most has predicted biometrics investment this year will reach $3 billion."

“The growing wave of investment in biometrics and identity verification has major implications for how technology providers in the space should be going to market, which were explored in a recent presentation by Acuity Market Intelligence Principal Analyst Maxine Most, just as Nametag, Basis ID and Legal Bricks joined or moved further into the biometric onboarding market."