Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Academic deepfake datasets rarely static: generate an image, label it real or fake, done. Real-world fraud doesn't hold still. Zhaofeng Si, a PhD student at University at Buffalo and research scientist intern at Persona, breaks down the gap. Public academic datasets are mostly typical face swaps and diffusion-model-generated images with a fixed label. In the real world, there's an attack-and-defense loop. Fraudsters actively probe for ways to bypass detection, so defenses have to keep adapting instead of training against a static benchmark.

In this episode, we dive into the payments revolution with Daniel Lev, CEO and Co-Founder of Coinflow. Daniel brings a rare blend of expertise: he started in large-scale digital transformation at PwC, moved into product at Amount (the Chicago-based fintech unicorn), and previously co-founded and exited a Web3 sports gaming platform before launching Coinflow.

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Adam Zuckerman, Co-Founder of The Better Money Company. He was previously general counsel at Eigen Labs, a unicorn that raised over $200M from a16z crypto and others, and an attorney at Latham & Watkins, where he represented 100+ companies and VCs across the crypto and payments ecosystem. He's joined by David Chachanko, Lead, Digital Assets and Compliance at Persona, who spent over a decade in regulatory compliance, including serving as a national bank examiner with the OCC, before leading Trust Administration and Compliance Technology at BitGo Trust and later bringing that operator perspective to Persona's product team.

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Yoni Rechtman, Partner at Slow Ventures, a generalist early-stage venture firm that has deployed over $1 billion since 2011 across fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy, with a portfolio that includes Airtable, Gusto, Robinhood, Venmo, Solana, and Ro. Yoni leads the firm's New York presence and joined as Partner in January 2025 after three years as Principal, following five years at Tusk Ventures where he rose from Analyst to Principal.

In this episode, we're excited to introduce Matt Marcus, Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Treasury, the most trusted infrastructure for global money movement. Founded in 2018 alongside co-founders Dimitri Dadiomov and Sam Aarons through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch, Modern Treasury has powered over $400 billion in payments for hundreds of organizations, ranging from YC startups to financial institutions with over a century of history.

Where should you place identity verification requests in the hiring funnel? Jenna Kim shares some best practices based on her experience helping companies stop candidate fraud. From the Persona webinar: "Candidate Verification: Stop Fraud Before It Enters Your Workforce".

Brandon Chen breaks down how link analysis can help you see how coordinated fraud attempts are connected. From the "Why deepfakes are scared of mobile devices" webinar.

In H1, Persona shipped across fraud, identity, platform, and new solutions. Tune into the livestream to see.

Voice cloning is fooling grandparents into wiring money to "grandchildren." Vendor impersonation is rerouting accounts payable. And fraud rings are using AI to change their accents mid-scam when their first attempt raises suspicion. In this webinar, PJ Rohul (co-founder, About Fraud) talks with Laurel Sykes (chief risk officer, American Riviera Bank) and Brandon Chen (product marketing manager, Persona) about why mobile device-based verifications are becoming fraud teams' strongest defense against sophisticated attacks.

Every time a card gets issued or a payment moves, something has to decide, in milliseconds, whether it's legitimate. That's the problem Robin Gandhi, chief product officer at Lithic, solves every day. Lithic builds the programmable infrastructure behind modern card issuing and money movement for developers, digital banks, and financial institutions.