While it can be difficult to recover the funds victims lose to the scams, the U.S. has created a legal safe harbor that banks can use to share intel to prevent fraud.

A hearing included discussion of European laws that will put banks on the hook for fraud schemes, and whether the U.S. needs a digital identity standard.

Nothing less than a whole-of-government approach, in concert with the financial services industry, will be enough to address the spiraling cost of fraud to both businesses and consumers.

St. Mary's Bank in New Hampshire tries to serve members as it has for 116 years, while dealing with today's cybersecurity and fraud concerns.

The Canadian bank said it expects to recover hundreds of millions of dollars after a three-judge appeals panel found that it cannot be held liable in connection with a multibillion-dollar fraud. The ruling echoed a different appeals court's decision stemming from the collapse of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Banks and consumers report fraud at higher rates than they did before the pandemic, and those cases have continued getting costlier.

The bureau studied mail theft-related check fraud and found that fraudsters often know to manipulate checks and avoid branches.

Reports of fraud committed against financial companies are on pace to, for the first time, fall this year compared with 2023. Consumer reports of fraud are also down.

A company spokesperson said the company reviews fraud-related issues and refers them to law enforcement "as appropriate."

A survey of 135 financial services companies conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a subsidiary of LexisNexis, found that a vast majority reported increased levels of fraud in 2023.

People filmed themselves depositing bad checks, then quickly transferring or withdrawing the funds. Then they shared screenshots of their negative balances.

The indictment of Telegram's CEO has added scrutiny to the ways in which messaging apps are facilitating check fraud — and what banks can do to stop them.

Shutting down Telegram could disrupt fraudsters targeting banks, according to experts. With charges against CEO Pavel Durov, the idea appears more than hypothetical.

Most financial institutions are seeking ways to speed up payments, but one neobank is looking to slow them down to protect a segment of the population frequently targeted by scams.

California has a pending law that would hold banks liable for three times the amount of a loss if they had reason to suspect financial exploitation of an older customer and did nothing about it.

In this month's roundup of top banking news, how the widespread CrowdStrike outage affected banks of all sizes, JPMorgan Chase's new tech bet for combating rising fraud, what Project 2025 could mean for bankers and more.

Instances of check fraud have ballooned in recent years, plaguing banks, and they don't seem to be slowing down. Probably the best thing regulators can do to combat that fraud is to develop an equally inexpensive alternative that is more secure, and FedNow might be that service.

In a new survey of bank executives from IntraFi, 90% of respondents said instances of check fraud have increased in recent years and half want law enforcement to make check fraud a bigger priority to stop criminals from stealing checks in the mail.