Expert analysis and industry-leading resources to help you stay ahead of global fraud trends
With investment scams rising across the globe, banks are exploring ways to combat them. When we look at the numbers, it’s easy to see why: In countries like Australia, Canada and the US, investment scams represent almost half of all scam losses.
Our analysis shows investment scams can exhibit similar patterns to impersonation scams, as victims are often on a call while scammers provide instructions on payments to make. This enables banks to leverage behavioral insights to stop these scams, reducing the dependency on transactional information.
Tom Peacock
Director, Global Fraud Intelligence
Experts' corner
Dark Economy Survey: Insights into the invisible
BioCatch surveyed 800 fraud management, anti-money laundering (AML), and risk and compliance leaders at banks in 17 countries on five continents on the financial crime challenges they’re seeing at their respective institutions in their respective countries.
Global money mule networks
BioCatch’s 2025 Digital Banking Fraud Trends in Germany report highlights the most prevalent types of fraud and financial crime plaguing German financial institutions in 2025. Download now and fortify your defenses against fraudsters with BioCatch’s insights on the ever-evolving world of fraud and financial crime in Germany.
Exporting safety: What nations can learn from Australia’s efforts to scamproof banking
Explore Australia’s unique approach to combating financial scams, highlighting the power of collaboration, innovation, and leadership.
Exporting safety: What nations can learn from Australia’s efforts to scam proof banking
This white paper explores Australia’s unique approach to combating financial scams, highlighting the power of collaboration, innovation, and leadership.
America is behind in the scam fight: Why this bank CEO wants a national strategy
Scammers consistently exploit the path of least resistance – and the US stands out as a prime target with relatively wealthy consumers and comparatively weaker protections.
An ode to BioCatch Scout: GASA’s scam-fighting tool of the year
We launched BioCatch Scout in September of 2023 with the sole purpose of illuminating the connections of every suspected mule account within a bank’s network. Since then, we continue to work directly with our customers, incorporating feedback, enhancing features, and delivering additional solution support such as fraud feedback from Account Takeover (ATO) models.
Beyond awareness: Building a national anti-scam center to protect older Americans
A national anti-scam center would allow the U.S. to treat elder fraud and transnational cybercrime not as a series of disconnected crimes, but as an ongoing national security and consumer protection issue.
This is a pivotal moment in the world of financial crime and fraud, and it's crucial that we all band together to stay vigilant and fight for our safety.
The machine behind the onslaught of romance and investment scams
You know all those emails we get informing us our sensitive information has been exposed in a data breach? The ones assuring us how dedicated the breached company du jour is to protecting the trust we placed in them, how they’re strengthening their controls to prevent similar events in the future, blah blah blah? Well, it’s breaches like those that allow scammers to build out their dossiers of us, making their scams more believable.
