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BioCatch published a survey of 100 fraud management, AML and compliance team leaders at banks in Italy, dated 4 November 2026.

Italian banking leaders report increasing fraud attempts and losses ↗

What happened

• 76% of Italian respondents say their organization loses more than $10 million to fraud each year.
• 73% of Italian respondents say their institution is planning or implementing changes to reimbursement policies to prepare for PSD3.
• Two-thirds of Italian respondents say their organization already reimburses more than half of scam victims.
• 91% of Italian respondents say fraud investigations take more than a day to complete.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Survey is vendor-commissioned by BioCatch; figures are vendor-reported and not independently verified.

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BioCatch reports Brazil fake lawyer scams and 15% rise in social engineering

Fake lawyer scams target Brazilian consumers ↗

What happened

• BioCatch reports that social engineering scam attempts in Brazil increased by 15% from the second half of 2025 through the first half of 2026.
• BioCatch states fake lawyer scams have become the third-most prevalent scam type in Brazil.
• BioCatch reports that stolen device fraud attempts increased by 14% in the last year, after tripling in 2025.
• BioCatch reports malware-driven payments increased 80% in the last year among its Brazilian customers.
• BioCatch reports an 88% increase in Brazilian banking sessions in which the user was detected on an active phone call.
• BioCatch reports a 20% increase in automated bot sessions and a doubling in remote access fraud attempts among its Brazilian customers.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Release is vendor-sourced data from unnamed Brazilian banks; figures are BioCatch-reported and not independently verified.
• Fake lawyer scam pattern (court-record data, WhatsApp contact, Pix upfront payment) is a social-engineering vector relevant to fraud-prevention positioning against behavioral vendors.

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BioCatch launches public-private advisory board on government payment fraud

BioCatch launches public-private advisory board to help governments combat fraud ↗

What happened

• BioCatch announced a new public-private advisory board to help governments combat tax, welfare and other fraud involving government payments deposited into citizens' bank accounts.
• Former IRS Criminal Investigation Chief Guy Ficco, former Australian Taxation Office Deputy Commissioner John Ford and former Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority Director-General Dr. Shlomit Wagman joined as founding members.
• BioCatch Trust, first launched in Australia in 2024, lets member banks share account intelligence in real time about the trustworthiness of accounts at other banks.
• The advisors will seek partnerships with governments and law enforcement agencies; BioCatch and customers will alert government offices to high-risk payments before disbursement.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The board targets government disbursement fraud and cross-bank account-trust sharing, which sits outside Signicat's current eID, signing and verification lines on the evidence supplied.
• Public-sector fraud advisory with former tax-enforcement officials could expand BioCatch's reach into government buyers in Signicat's public-sector accounts.

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BioCatch reports 25% rise in U.S. community bank mule sessions

U.S. community banks and credit unions report increase in money laundering sessions ↗

What happened

• U.S. community banks and credit unions saw a 25% increase in digital banking sessions in which the user attempted to launder money between H2 2025 and H1 2026, per BioCatch.
• BioCatch reports average mule transfer value rose 27%.
• BioCatch reports fraud sessions fell 11% and bot activity fell 15% over the same period.
• More than 250 financial institutions contributed to the dataset, all of which are BioCatch customers.
• The report includes a case study following one U.S. credit union retail account over 40 days, which BioCatch says was identified as a money mule.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Mule-account behavioral detection in community banks is a direct overlap with Signicat's fraud and AML screening offerings, and BioCatch is positioning behavioral analytics for this segment.
• Vendor-run dataset with no published methodology beyond sample size; figures are BioCatch-reported and not independently verified.

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BioCatch published a press release dated 14 October 2026 reporting Spanish bank fraud and scam trends over the last 12 months.

Spanish banks report 150% spike in fraud conducted from stolen devices ↗

What happened

• Attempted fraud sessions at BioCatch-customer Spanish banks increased by 19% over the last 12 months, attempted scam sessions by 46%, and average fraud attempt value by 63%.
• Social engineering scams accounted for 43% of all fraud and 60% of fraud losses in Spain over the last 12 months, per the report.
• BioCatch reports a 35% increase in sessions involving malware among Spanish customers in the first half of the year.
• The report includes a case study on behavioral intelligence identifying a remote access attack on a corporate account.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The release is vendor-sourced market data on Spanish banking fraud, relevant to Signicat's Iberia coverage and to fraud-prevention positioning against behavioral-biometric vendors.
• The 150% headline figure is not stated in the body text, which reports 19%, 46% and 63% increases; the headline figure is unverified from the excerpt.

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From Firebase to agentic AI: One prompt away from the scam pipeline endgame ↗

What happened

• The article reports that in August the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre flagged 57 Firebase-hosted operations impersonating banks, rising to 216 by Sept. 20.
• The article reports that Zimperium researchers identified Arsink RAT, which infected approximately 45,000 devices across 143 countries.
• The article reports that BioCatch's 2026 global survey of fraud and risk leaders across 25 countries found 80% of respondents had already faced an attack carried out by AI agents.
• The article reports that RatHat lets an AI assistant interact with an infected phone in real time via Android accessibility services.
• The article reports that nine out of every 10 scams now originate from a mobile device, per BioCatch's 2026 Global Scams report.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Mobile-device scam origination and AI-agent attacks on banking apps bear on mobile authentication and fraud-detection demand in Signicat's banking markets; relevance is indirect because the article is a threat narrative rather than a product announcement.

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BioCatch reports that attempted banking scams increased by 35% over the last 12 months, based on data from more than 370 financial institutions.

Global banking scams increase by 35% ↗

What happened

• BioCatch reports that employment scams had the greatest growth of any scam type, with reported victims up 258%.
• BioCatch reports that nine of every 10 scam sessions originate from a mobile device.
• BioCatch reports an average attempted investment-scam case value of $6,600.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Competitor published original data on scam trends in banking, a market Signicat serves in the Nordics, Benelux, DACH, Iberia and UK; relevance to Signicat's fraud and verification offering is indirect.
• The report's behavioral-intelligence framing positions BioCatch against document- and biometric-centric identity verification; this is a positioning contrast rather than a direct attack on Signicat.

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BioCatch survey: 55% of Swiss banks rate fraud controls effective

Swiss banking leaders express low confidence in existing fraud defenses ↗

What happened

• BioCatch published a survey of 100 fraud, AML and compliance leaders at Swiss banks.
• 55% of Swiss respondents rate their fraud controls as effective, against a 76% global average.
• 64% of Swiss respondents report annual fraud losses above $10 million, 13 points above the global average.
• BioCatch commissioned this survey as one of 12 surveys covering 1,200 banking leaders across 12 geographies.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Report frames fraud-detection weakness around malware and coached user journeys, which overlaps with behavioural fraud detection and fraud-deepfake topics in Signicat's portfolio.

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BioCatch published survey results covering 100 fraud-management, AML, and compliance team leaders at Nordic banks.

Nordic banking leaders report increasing fraud losses ↗

What happened

• Thirty-nine percent of Nordic bank respondents reported annual fraud losses exceeding $25 million.
• BioCatch argues that while Nordic eID systems secure authentication, banks must evaluate behavioral signals to detect social engineering and manipulation.

Why it matters to Signicat

• BioCatch is directly targeting Nordic banks by framing core eID authentication schemes like BankID and MitID as insufficient protection against authorized push payment fraud.
• Rising pressure on liability frameworks could push Signicat's Nordic financial clients to demand integrated behavioral fraud orchestration alongside eID sign-in.

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BioCatch Saudi survey: 85% see rising fraud attempts, 96% rate controls effective

Saudi banking leaders overwhelmingly report rising fraud attempts and losses ↗

What happened

• BioCatch commissioned a survey of fraud-management, AML and compliance team leaders at Saudi banks.
• 85% of Saudi respondents see fraud attempts increasing every year and 83% see fraud losses increasing.
• Half of respondents say their bank loses more than $10 million annually to fraud and scams; 22% report losses above $25 million.
• 96% of Saudi respondents rate existing fraud controls as effective, and 75% describe them as very effective.
• 53% of respondents say their investigative process still relies on manual reviews.
• 50% of respondents say their bank is actively procuring or implementing new fraud-prevention solutions, the highest rate of any surveyed country.

Why it matters to Signicat

• BioCatch is using Saudi banking survey data to market behavioral fraud detection to banks, a market adjacent to Signicat's document and authentication offerings; Signicat's Saudi presence is not evidenced in supplied context.

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BioCatch reports that attempted impersonation scams more than doubled in the U.S. between 2025 and 2026, based on data from 292 financial institutions.

U.S. financial institutions report 130% spike in attempted impersonation scams ↗

What happened

• BioCatch's U.S. customers reported $46 million in attempted investment fraud losses, against an FBI estimate of over $8.6 billion in 2025 investment fraud losses.
• BioCatch's U.S.-based customers reported a 50% increase in phishing scam attempts between 2025 and 2026.
• Digital banking sessions with a remote-access tool present increased 45% in the U.S. in the last year.
• 70% of U.S. account takeover sessions occurred after 5 p.m.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The report is vendor-published research on fraud trends in U.S. banking; it is not a Signicat market event and has limited direct bearing on Signicat's core European markets.
• Fraud-prevention vendors publishing behavioral-risk statistics can shape buyer expectations for fraud detection in digital banking, a topic adjacent to Signicat's risk and authentication lines.

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When crime goes digital: Lessons from Brazil’s 2026 Security Yearbook

When crime goes digital: Lessons from Brazil’s 2026 Security Yearbook ↗

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Visa announced plans to acquire behavioral and device intelligence provider BioCatch.

Joining Visa: What it means for our goals and our mission ↗

What happened

• BioCatch stated it will join Visa's Value-Added Services organization while keeping its leadership team and operational structure intact.
• BioCatch views the acquisition as an opportunity to apply its behavioral scoring across Visa's network of nearly 14,500 financial institutions and over 5 billion credentials.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Visa integrating behavioral intelligence into its network strengthens payment-rail fraud capabilities, potentially challenging independent identity and fraud orchestration vendors.
• BioCatch's push to replace point-in-time checks with continuous assessment reflects broader industry shifts impacting traditional verification models.

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¿Es tu cliente, el agente de tu cliente o alguien (o algo) más?

¿Es tu cliente, el agente de tu cliente o alguien (o algo) más? ↗

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BioCatch publishes a blog post titled 'The Recognition Economy' arguing banks must recognize user intent continuously throughout digital banking sessions.

The Recognition Economy: A new framework for how banks will compete ↗

What happened

• The post cites 72.9% fraud detection rates and 15x five-year ROI for banks using behavioral intelligence at scale, without naming the source institutions.
• The post attributes a fraud-architecture gap claim to IDC's 2026 banking risk and compliance research, stating 74% of banks cite financial crime as their top risk concern.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Content positions behavioral intelligence as core to fraud and identity architecture, a narrative that competes with document- and eID-centric verification sold by Signicat.
• Argument that point-in-time authentication is insufficient amplifies the competitor-framed narrative about platform coherence and fragmented stacks; Signicat's own offering is not named.

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BioCatch published a blog post describing the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as relevant to bank digital channels.

OpenAI’s agent attack on Hugging Face: What it means for banks ↗

What happened

• The post states that OpenAI later confirmed its own models were responsible for the Hugging Face breach.
• The post states that Hugging Face detected the intrusion because speed, scale and pattern of activity were non-human.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The post pushes continuous in-session behavioral detection as the answer to agentic AI fraud, a positioning contrast with login-time and document-based verification lines in Signicat's portfolio.
• Agentic AI session-impersonation framing is adjacent to Signicat's authentication and fraud themes; no direct market event is reported.

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FinCEN reissued its Section 314(b) Fact Sheet on June 12, 2026.

FinCEN's new 314(b) guidance: Progress, but the real problem remains unsolved ↗

What happened

• The article states that roughly 7,200 financial institutions are registered for 314(b), an overall participation rate of about 12.3%.
• The article states that money services businesses participate at a rate of about 2%.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Commentary on AML information sharing; a relevant regulatory debate for Signicat's Risk and AML screening line, with no direct Signicat reference.

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BioCatch survey: 75% of Singapore banks report rising fraud losses

Singaporean banking leaders overwhelmingly report increasing fraud attempts and losses ↗

What happened

• BioCatch commissioned a survey of 100 fraud-management, AML and compliance team leaders at Singapore banks.
• 91% of Singapore respondents say fraud attempts at their institution are increasing; 75% report increasing fraud losses.
• 27% of Singapore respondents say their institution reimburses more than half of scam-related losses, versus a 44% global average.
• 36% of Singapore respondents say their bank has deployed behavioral solutions.
• Just 14% of fraud professionals believe their organization is fully prepared for MAS FAST and PayNow requirements.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Survey is vendor-commissioned and promotes BioCatch behavioral intelligence; treat figures as vendor-reported, not independently verified.
• Signals rising demand for behavioral and fraud-detection spend in Singapore banking, a market Signicat does not list among its core markets.

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BioCatch Benelux survey: 61% report rising bank fraud attempts

Benelux banking leaders report increasing fraud attempts and losses ↗

What happened

• BioCatch published a survey of 100 fraud-management, AML and compliance team leaders at banks in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dated 24 June 2026.
• 61% of respondents report increasing fraud attempts at their bank and 60% report increasing fraud losses.
• 74% of Benelux banking leaders say their bank is actively preparing for the PSR and PSD3 mandates.
• 80% say real-time SEPA payments have increased fraud risk, and 98% say the Wero transition has at least a partial impact on fraud patterns.
• 92% report planned investments in upgrading fraud prevention technologies.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Benelux bank demand for fraud-prevention upgrades (92% planned investment, 59% implementing or evaluating vendors) is relevant to Signicat's Benelux risk and authentication lines.
• The survey is vendor-commissioned and promotes BioCatch behavioral detection; figures are vendor-reported and not independently verified.

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BioCatch's blog argues that device recognition is no longer sufficient and that banks should continuously validate device integrity, environment and behavior during sessions.

How remote access fraud and AI have broken traditional device trust ↗

What happened

• The blog states that BioCatch's mid-market customers reported a 55% increase in fraud involving remote access Trojans in 2025, accounting for 15% of total fraud.
• The blog cites FTC data reporting $15.9 billion in U.S. consumer fraud losses in 2025, more than a 27% increase from the prior year.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Device-trust messaging targets the device-recognition layer that Signicat's authentication and risk offerings also rely on; the article is positioning, not a named attack on Signicat.

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BioCatch op-ed: INTERPOL report validates agentic AI fraud warning

The war arrived on schedule: INTERPOL confirms the rise of agentic AI-powered fraud ↗

What happened

• BioCatch's blog states that INTERPOL's March 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment reached conclusions the author had earlier warned about.
• The blog reports INTERPOL's finding that AI-enabled fraud is 4.5 times more profitable than traditional methods.
• The blog reports INTERPOL's statement that agentic AI systems can autonomously plan and execute complete fraud campaigns.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The post is a competitor thought-leadership piece promoting behavioral intelligence as the response to agentic AI fraud; it does not name Signicat and is not a direct attack.
• The framing that static, rule-based and document-centric controls are inadequate against agentic AI is a positioning contrast relevant to Signicat's fraud and verification lines.

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BioCatch states that device recognition without behavioral context cannot determine whether to admit a session.

The value of precision in device intelligence ↗

What happened

• BioCatch reports that agentic activity appears in approximately one of every 950 sessions.
• BioCatch reports that DeviceIQ identifies genuine device upgrades with close to 60% accuracy within two weeks of deployment.
• BioCatch reports that devices used for fraud are 12.5 times more likely to show identity evasion signs across a network of more than 1.7 billion profiled devices.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The article positions BioCatch as the only provider combining device and behavioral intelligence natively, a direct contrast with multi-vendor stacks Signicat assembles through orchestration.
• Claims of single-vendor device and behavioral consolidation amplify the platform-coherence narrative Signicat monitors.

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BioCatch survey: 84% of banks see AI agents as top vulnerability

World banking leaders see AI agents as industry’s greatest vulnerability in next year ↗

What happened

• BioCatch commissioned a survey of 1,440 fraud-management, AML, and risk and compliance leaders at banks in 25 countries.
• The survey reports that 84% of respondents recognize AI agents as the industry's greatest exploitable vulnerability in the next year.
• The survey reports that 80% of respondents say their institution has already encountered attacks utilizing agentic AI.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Vendor-commissioned survey figures on AI-agent fraud are attributed to BioCatch and are not independently verified; relevance to Signicat is indirect.
• BioCatch's CEO argues for moving beyond static identity checks toward behavioral understanding, a positioning contrast with document- and identity-centric verification.

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Präzision als Schlüssel zur Bekämpfung von Mule-Netzwerken

Präzision als Schlüssel zur Bekämpfung von Mule-Netzwerken ↗

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BioCatch: 75% of South African bank leaders report rising fraud attempts

South African banking leaders report increasing fraud attempts and losses ↗

What happened

• BioCatch published a survey of fraud-management, AML and compliance team leaders at South African banks, dated 13 May 2026.
• 75% of surveyed respondents report increasing fraud attempts at their institution; 79% say fraud losses were increasing.
• 81% estimate their institution's annual fraud losses at more than $5 million (R82.3 million).
• 40% of respondents said their institution is actively using some version of behavioral biometrics.
• The survey was commissioned by BioCatch.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Vendor-commissioned South African data is outside Signicat's core markets (Nordics, Benelux, DACH, Iberia, UK); direct relevance is low.
• The release reinforces BioCatch's social-engineering and behavioral-biometrics narrative against identity-verification-centric fraud controls, a positioning contrast rather than a named attack on Signicat.

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AISI's evaluation found Mythos Preview completed its 32-step corporate network simulation end-to-end in three out of 10 attempts.

Claude Mythos: Hype or reality? Why the real threat lives in the behavioral gap ↗

What happened

• The article states that the thousands-of-vulnerabilities claim rests on expert contractors agreeing with Claude's severity assessment in approximately 90% of 198 manually reviewed reports.
• The article states that AISI's test ranges lack active defenders, defensive tooling, and penalties for security alerts.
• The article recommends continuous behavioral analysis at the session layer instead of added step-up friction.

Why it matters to Signicat

• BioCatch is positioning session-level behavioral intelligence as the answer to AI-driven fraud, a contrast to document- and eID-centric verification.
• The piece is thought leadership rather than original research; it adds positioning to the fraud-prevention narrative relevant to Signicat's risk and authentication lines.

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BioCatch reports 62% rise in UK social engineering scam attempts

UK banks see 62% spike in scam attempts ↗

What happened

• BioCatch reports that reported cases of attempted social engineering scams increased by 62% in 2025 across nine UK financial institutions.
• BioCatch reports that remote-access and malware-related fraud attempts both declined in the UK.
• BioCatch reports a 140% increase in UK phishing attempts and a 112% increase in fraud originating from stolen devices in 2025.
• UK financial institutions reported 16% more mule accounts in 2025 than in 2024.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The release is vendor-sourced UK fraud data relevant to Signicat's UK market and fraud-prevention positioning against behavioral-intelligence vendors.
• The stolen-device and authentication framing targets authentication-layer assumptions; it is a positioning contrast rather than a named attack on Signicat.

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BioCatch UAE survey: 58% of banks report rising fraud losses

Nearly 60% of UAE banking leaders report increasing fraud losses ↗

What happened

• BioCatch published a survey of fraud-management, AML and compliance team leaders at UAE banks dated 8 April 2026.
• The survey reports 58% of respondents saw increasing fraud losses at their institution.
• The survey reports 77% of respondents said their organization was actively exploring new vendors and/or solution enhancements.
• The survey reports 26% of respondents say their organization reimburses more than half of scam victims.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The vendor-commissioned survey is a Gulf-market signal for behavioral fraud detection; Signicat lists no UAE market in its core markets, so direct relevance is limited.
• The 77% vendor-exploration figure indicates buyer openness to fraud-solution replacement in UAE banks, a potential competitive opening for Signicat's fraud and authentication lines.

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BioCatch behavioral intelligence as analysing human interactions across sessions to determine intent in real time.

La précision, nouvel atout clé d’une prévention efficace de la fraude ↗

What happened

• The article argues that historical transaction data is limited because it shows only past events.
• The article reports that a large Latin American bank raised fraud detection above 90% after deploying BioCatch behavioral analytics.
• The article reports that a second large Latin American bank avoided $10 million in fraud losses after choosing BioCatch account takeover technology.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Vendor-published case metrics are unverified and attributed to BioCatch; the banks are unnamed.
• Content frames behavioral intent detection as an alternative to rule-based and static checkpoints, a positioning contrast with identity-verification and authentication lines.

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BioCatch reports 155% increase in Latin American banking scam attempts

Latin American banks see 155% increase in scam attempts ↗

What happened

• BioCatch reported telemetry from 36 Latin American financial institutions indicating that scam attempts increased 155% in 2025.
• BioCatch reported that remote-access tool fraud attempts increased fivefold, malware attacks grew 225%, and stolen device cases increased 344% across the region.
• BioCatch stated that account takeover attempts nearly tripled across Latin America between late 2024 and early 2026, led by a 324% increase in Mexico.
• BioCatch reported a 42% increase in regional mule accounts, contrasted with a 27% decline in Argentina following the deployment of its inter-bank sharing network.

Why it matters to Signicat

• BioCatch uses regional telemetry to argue that hardening front-end authentication shifts attackers toward real-time social engineering and remote-access fraud, positioning behavioral biometrics as necessary alongside authentication.
• The research focuses exclusively on Latin America, outside Signicat's core European footprint, limiting direct commercial competitive impact.

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