Visa, Inc., through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Visa Open Connect Limited (**Visa**) intends to acquire all of the shares in BioCatch Ltd (**BioCatch**) (the **Acquisition**). Visa is a global payments technology company that supplies payment products and services and commercial and mone…

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BioCatch is the leader in Behavioral Biometrics, a technology that leverages machine learning to analyze an online user’s physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals online. BioCatc...

Visa said on Monday it would buy fraud intelligence provider BioCatch for $2.4 billion ​in cash from investment firm Permira and other ‌investors, marking the card giant's latest effort to beef up its cybersecurity offerings.

Employment scam victims at more than 370 financial institutions in 21 countries surged by 258% over the past 12 months, far outpacing all other scam types. BioCatch also found that most scam sessions start on mobile devices, while investment scams remain the most costly and financial sextortion continues to cause severe harm. #BioCatch #OperationShamrock #FinCEN #NCMEC #Nigeria

Visa announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Israeli fraud detection company BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, expanding its cybersecurity capabilities as artificial intelligence fuels incr…

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It is also the latest move by Visa to expand its value-added services business, which has become one of the company's fastest-growing divisions.

Visa said on Monday it would buy fraud ​intelligence provider BioCatch for $2.4 ‌billion in cash, as the card giant looks to beef ​up its cybersecurity offerings.

In Q2 2025, BioCatch announced remarkable financial performance, exceeding $160 million in ARR, while making strides in financial crime prevention.

The UK Finance Annual Fraud Report 2025 (in collaboration with BioCatch) has landed, and its findings are both a wake-up call and a testament to the resilience of the UK’s financial sector. As fraudst...

BioCatch's 2026 report finds that nine in 10 banking scam sessions start on mobile, while employment scam victims rose 258% and investment scams had the highest losses.

New data from more than 370 financial institutions around the world shows attempted banking scams increased by 35% over the last 12 months. The banks reporting this uptick serve a combined more than 760 million users in 21 different countries. All sampled institutions work with BioCatch, which prevents fraud and scams by recognizing patterns in user behavior. While a 35% increase represents a very significant rate of growth, it is substantially slower than the 65% figure reported in last year’s edition of this report. The findings suggest those banks using behavioral intelligence to detect fraud are making a marked impact in deterring scam attempts against their institutions. “Social engineering scams have not suddenly become less prevalent or sophisticated,” BioCatch Director of Global Fraud Intelligence Thomas Peacock said. “If anything, artificial intelligence has lowered the barrier to entry for aspiring scammers, allowing more bad actors to create more convincing scams at a scale we’ve never seen before. In response, many banks have realized behavioral intelligence enables them to recognize signs of manipulation and coercion before an accountholder ever authorizes a transaction.” BioCatch’s 2026 Global Scams report also includes a case study that showcases some of the behavioral and device abnormalities — an active phone call during the session, remote access software on the device, how the user adds a new beneficiary, and more — that allow banks to intervene before a would-be victim loses any money. While investment scams continue to account for the bulk of global scam losses (with average case values surging to $6,600), employment scams saw the greatest growth of any scam type in 2026, with the number of reported victims increasing by 258%. Romance scam attempts meanwhile increased by only 23%, well off the pace of growth BioCatch reported in 2025. Other key findings: * Purchase scams remain most prevalent scam type: A full third (33%) of every attempted scam reported by BioCatch customers in the last year was a purchase scam. * Scammers almost exclusively rely on mobile channels: Nine out of every 10 scam sessions now originates from a mobile device, up by five percentage points from last year. By comparison, traditional unauthorized fraud comes from mobile devices in just 75% of all cases. * Investment scams far and away most costly: The $6,600 average case value for attempted investment scams is five times greater than the overall average of all scam types. Download the report to view the complete results.

BioCatch has announced the launch of DeviceIQ, a comprehensive new device identification and intelligence product that transforms how financial institutions evaluate the trustworthiness of devices used for digital banking. Traditional device identification has grown increasingly unreliable. Criminals utilize sophisticated evasion techniques (emulators, device spoofing, cloaked browsers, jailbroken devices, and data-wiping) to commit fraud repeatedly from the same physical devices. New technologies like agentic browsers add another layer of complexity by separating a user’s actions from …