Episode Details

In this episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, Katie Perry sits down with Georgina Merhom, founder and CEO of SOLO, to explore why financial services still asks customers to prove who they are over and over again — and what it would take to make identity verification reusable.

Georgina explains how SOLO is building a verification network that allows banks and fintechs to rely on identity checks that have already been completed elsewhere, provided those checks meet their own compliance standards. Rather than acting as another KYC provider, SOLO is positioning itself more like a clearinghouse for verification: auditing how information was verified, matching credentials against an institution’s policies, and managing the governance and economics around sharing that work.

They also discuss recent regulatory guidance around verifiable digital credentials, what SOLO learned from a pilot involving banks and regulatory observers, and why Georgina believes the bigger challenge is no longer regulation but getting institutions comfortable trusting one another’s verification work. The conversation closes on consumer control, agentic commerce, and why the rise of AI agents could make persistent identity, permission, and revocation infrastructure even more important.

This is a sponsored episode of This Week in Fintech Partnered, produced in partnership with SOLO.

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