Halo around my Avatar?

My office just purchased some really high-end stock images to use as Avatars.
They are high-res PNG files with transparent backgrounds.
They look awesome during project construction...however,
once I publish the project, all the graphics have a thin white border around it.
Any ideas?

Thanks LilyBiri, This did remove the halo, however, it doubled my file size!
My project is 30 slides and I only changed the quality on 2 slides and it doubled the file size.

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