Highlights
3 years in a row named a Leader First to achieve iBeta Level 3 on iOS and Android Introducing GovFaceMatch Privacy is the architecture
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UK fintech

Criminals stole £1.28bn.
The FCA is fining the firms
that let them in

AI-assisted fraud is industrializing and enforcement has followed.
Incode verifies real customers in seconds, stop deepfakes, block mules, keep sign-up fast.

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What's actually happening

Three fronts reshaping UK fintech onboarding

Deepfakes and selfie injection at account opening

3.81m

record UK fraud cases in 2025 (UK Finance)

  • UK Finance now cites deepfakes and selfie injections by name.
  • 43% of attacks arrive by audio call, 37% by video (Gartner).
  • Checks built for 2019 approve whatever looks right.

Onboarding failures that become FCA enforcement

£21.1m

FCA penalty for one bank's onboarding failures (2025)

  • Buckingham Palace as a home address; 34,000+ high-risk accounts opened in breach.
  • ECCTA's failure-to-prevent offense in force; FCA audits since May 2026.
  • Remediation programs consume roadmaps for years.

APP fraud and the mule-account supply chain

£576.4m

UK APP fraud losses in 2025, up 19%

  • 248,070 APP cases in 2025; 66% start online (UK Finance).
  • Mule networks cash out through accounts that should never have opened.
  • Since October 2024, every mule you onboard hits your P&L.

The balance you're trying to strike

Conversion or compliance is a false choice

Every control you add is friction a real customer feels; every corner you cut is a fine or a mule network later. Legacy IDV forces that trade-off. AI-native identity breaks it.

£0m reimbursed to APP fraud victims by UK firms in 2025 (UK Finance)
£0m international APP losses in 2025, up from £21m in 2023 (PSR)
£0m lost to investment fraud daily in 2025 (City of London Police)

Deepfake fraud, case by case

11 verified cases that hit European finance, and what stopped each one.

  • The verified 11-case incident log, 2024 to 2026
  • A seven-benchmark growth table with central-bank data
  • The anatomy of a deepfake attack, mapped to what stops each step
  • A 10-point readiness checklist for your own flow

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Deepfakes

Synthetic faces and injection attacks are getting through our document-plus-selfie checks

FCA readiness

We need audit-ready evidence for every onboarding decision before the next review

APP fraud

Mule accounts keep surfacing, and every reimbursement claim traces back to onboarding

Account takeover

Phishable OTPs are letting scammers into accounts and through high-risk payments

Review queue

Our manual review queue grows faster than the analyst team clearing it

Conversion

Good applicants abandon onboarding while false declines quietly cap our growth number

How Incode approaches it

Identity built for growth under FCA scrutiny

The four failure modes draining UK onboarding, and how Incode closes each one.

eBook and guides

Built for UK fintech teams

Enforcement records, incident logs, and checklists.

11 deepfake fraud cases that hit European finance, and what stopped them

The 2024-2026 European record: incident log, growth benchmarks, attack anatomy, readiness checklist.

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The eIDAS 2.0 countdown: every date that matters for European fintechs

The full eIDAS and AMLR milestone timeline, plus a wallet readiness program.

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What FCA, DNB and SEPBLAC fines teach fintechs about onboarding controls

Three regulators' fines compared, plus the AMLR countdown and a CDD checklist.

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Your identity vendor is now part of your regulatory exam

The obligations map across EBA guidelines, DORA, the AI Act, and the UK critical-third-party regime.

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KYB beyond the registry: verifying the businesses your registry check can't see

The six-region registry table, the six-layer KYB stack, and the AMLR and MiCA dates that rewrite business verification.

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What our customers say

With Incode, we reduced our false rejections from 12% to 5% while bringing fraud down from 0.5% to 0.1%. That balance between protecting our clients and maintaining a seamless digital experience has been game-changing.

Carlos de la Ossa · Digital Channels Director

Six months of rigorous testing proved Incode indispensable for our stringent security and compliance benchmarks.

Miguel Lavalle · Head of Account Opening

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