A research study by global tech strategists Juniper Research anticipates a 85% surge in fraud detection and prevention investment by 2030; increasing significantly from $21 billion in 2025 to $39 billion in 2030. This reflects the urgent need to combat various fraud techniques, like real-time injection attacks, where manipulated content is inserted during identity verification processes.
Fraudulent and malicious actors are increasingly leveraging AI in order to refine their overall techniques and outpace more conventional detection systems; making attacks more challenging to identify, and rendering existing detection tools to be quite ineffective. This, according to Lorien Carter, Senior Research Analyst at Juniper Research. They also mentioned that this necessitates “an overhaul of fraud prevention strategies to strengthen identity verification and ensure the authenticity of both users and transactions.”
The report, entitled, Fraud Detection & Prevention in Banking Market 2025-2030, has noted that defending against new threats is “vital to a bank’s security, reputation, and regulatory compliance.” But introducing too many barriers within onboarding and transacting can frustrate the end-users.
In response to this, considerable investment is now being channeled towards implementing background fraud tools that leverage behavioural analytics and machine learning to “flag suspicious activity, while minimising user journey interruptions.”
Banks will also have to consider leveraging different digital identity initiatives into their fraud prevention strategies. There is a surge in interest from governments in the UK, EU, Australia, and China “in digital identity; providing a potential new way for banks to verify users.”
Carter concluded that as various fraud tactics continue evolve at a steady speed, banking institutions face growing pressure to keep up with these developments. And financial institutions have to modernise and “future-proof their systems while simultaneously adapting to emerging digital identity frameworks.”
The research report provides an extensive assessment of the fraud and security market to date, including market analysis and forecasts for more thnan 60 different countries.
