2025 digital banking fraud trends in the UK
Unveiling the UK's 2025 fraud landscape: key trends, emerging threats, and banking resilience
BioCatch’s 2025 Digital Banking Fraud BioCatch’s 2025 Digital Banking Fraud Trends in the UK report highlights the most prevalent types of fraud and financial crime plaguing UK financial institutions in 2025.
In this report, you’ll discover:
• Fraudsters pivoting: The UK saw a 34% decline in social engineering voice scams in the last year, as scammers redirected their efforts to other fraud types in response to more stringent controls imposed by UK banks.
• An emphasis on mobile: Fraud originating from mobile devices jumped by 11% in the UK, as BioCatch customers reported the first cases of remote-access fraud on mobile devices following an iOS update allowing remote control of iPhones for the first time in the product’s history.
• Malware on the decline: Fraud cases utilizing malware dropped by 27% in the UK.
• More mules, more problems: BioCatch customers in the UK reported three times more suspected money laundering accounts in 2024 than they did the year before.
• Card payment fraud grows: Reported cases of fraudulent authorization of card payments in the UK increased by 16%.
Download now and fortify your defenses against fraudsters with BioCatch’s insights on the ever-evolving world of fraud and financial crime in the UK.