Just released data from 36 Latin American financial institutions serving a combined more than 300 million customers shows social engineering scams continue to plague the region

Datos Insights today announced BioCatch Trust™ as the winner of the 2025 Fraud Impact Award for Best Scam and APP Fraud Prevention Solution. Launched in Australia in November of 2024 and then Argentina in May of 2025, BioCatch Trust™ enables member banks to assess risk on the receiving side of a transaction before any money leaves the sender's account. This allows the sending institution to freeze high-risk transactions with minimal false positive rates, proactively protecting retail banking customers from those social engineering scams where the scammer manipulates the victim outside of a digital banking session (often via email, text, or social media).

UK financial institutions are stepping up their fight against money laundering and fraud, but the threat is evolving fast. According to BioCatch’s inaugural Dark Economy Survey, 65% of UK fraud and compliance leaders believe criminal enterprises are now more sophisticated at laundering money than the banks trying to catch them.

A new report from BioCatch, the leader in digital fraud detection and financial crime prevention […]