Real estate fraud losses jumped 58% to $275 million in 2025, and most e-signature software still can't tell you whether the person who clicked "sign" is who they claim to be.
An auto deal verifies identity three times: credit application, signing, and title work. Let’s look at what each check proves, and why the last one stalls funding.
Three separate findings from the first week of August 2026 arrived at the same structural conclusion from different directions. Attackers are moving away from defeating security controls and toward inheriting the trust those controls extend, and the identity layer is where the convergence is most visible.
"Digital signature standard" gets used to describe cryptography, US law, and EU law almost interchangeably, and only one of those things determines whether the signature underneath can actually be forged.
A WSJ investigation traced North Korean operatives into US jobs. The gap they exploited is hiring identity.
A platform's fastest closing time is meaningless if it can't legally close a loan in the state where your borrower lives, so evaluate eligibility and integration before you look at the interface.
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