Eye on AI: Juniper Forecasts AI-Fueled Banking Fraud; True Fit Sizes up Glance

# Eye on AI: Juniper Forecasts AI-Fueled Banking Fraud; True Fit Sizes up Glance

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Independent payments-trade report summarizing a Juniper Research forecast
> Source: [Digital Transactions](https://www.digitaltransactions.net/eye-on-ai-juniper-forecasts-ai-fueled-banking-fraud-true-fit-sizes-up-glance)
> Published: 2026-09-21
> Captured: 2026-09-22T02:38:19.220Z

## Source summary

Digital Transactions reports that Juniper Research forecasts fraudulent transactions in digital banking and money transfer will exceed 2.2 billion worldwide in 2031, up 180% from 773.7 million in 2025, as AI lowers the cost of personalized social engineering and enables multi-stage attacks. Juniper forecasts 132.6 million such transactions in North America in 2031 and recommends combining behavioral, identity and payment signals for earlier intervention.

## Why it matters

The forecast highlights a potential control burden for banks and money-transfer providers as attacks become cheaper and more adaptive. It is a research projection, not an observed 2031 outcome, and the article does not disclose the forecast methodology, uncertainty range, country mix outside North America, prevented-loss estimate or a separate cross-border share. The figures should therefore be read as Juniper's scenario rather than a verified future result.

## Key numbers

- **Forecast global fraudulent transactions in 2031:** >2.2B
- **Forecast increase from 2025 to 2031:** 180%
- **Reported 2025 baseline:** 773.7M
- **Forecast North American transactions in 2031:** 132.6M

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Agentic payments
- Entities: Juniper Research
- AI-native finance
- Payment infrastructure
- Cross-border payments

## Evidence and credibility note

Readable Digital Transactions report. The figures are attributed to Juniper Research and accurately reproduced, but the article does not expose the underlying forecast methodology or uncertainty range and no future outcome is established.

Date evidence: Digital Transactions JSON-LD and visible byline record September 21, 2026

## First-party corroboration

No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked.

## Original-source traceback

[Open the original Digital Transactions report](https://www.digitaltransactions.net/eye-on-ai-juniper-forecasts-ai-fueled-banking-fraud-true-fit-sizes-up-glance)

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