Business finance fraud prevention

Fund more deals. Catch the fraud hiding in the paperwork.

Fraudfinder adds document fraud forensics to every business finance application. Spot doctored bank statements, fake invoices and manipulated ID in seconds, before you release funds, whether it's asset finance, an invoice facility or a working-capital loan.

Decision in seconds Works on broker-introduced flow ICO registered, pen tested
Business finance application · #BF-4821
4 documents

Bank statement + invoice

£3,420
£1,990
£612
£48,500
£128
£2,070
·Awaiting assessment
Invoice tamperedTotal edited after issue
Statement metadata editedPDF modified after issue date
Confirmation of Payee: matchNamed account holder confirmed
Illustrative demonstration. Live results are based on the documents you submit.

Trusted by business & asset finance lenders

Portman Finance Group Asset Finance Solutions Halo Corporate Finance White Oak UK
The problem

Business finance fraud lives in the documents, where a credit check can't look

Lenders lose money two ways at once: fraud that slips through to payout, and good SMEs wrongly declined. Both happen at the document, in the statement, the invoice and the ID.

£0bn

Lost to UK financial fraud

Across banking and payments in 2024, as demand for business credit keeps climbing.

Source: UK Finance Annual Fraud Report 2025
up to 0%

Of applications carry fraud

Detected in the applications we screen for business finance lenders.

Source: Fraudfinder platform data
0s

Average document check

From upload to an explainable fraud verdict, not a multi-day wait.

Source: Fraudfinder platform data
How it works

From application to decision in three steps

Drop Fraudfinder into your existing flow by API or portal. No change to how brokers or customers submit.

1

Connect the application

Send documents and bank statement data through our API, or upload them directly, however the deal arrives, direct or via broker.

2

Analyse in seconds

Forensic document checks plus invoice, payee and identity signals run automatically and return an explainable verdict in around 3.4 seconds.

3

Decide with confidence

Approve, decline or route to review against your own risk appetite, before you release funds.

What we check

Forensic checks on every application

Each one tuned for business finance, each one explainable to your risk team and your regulator.

Document forensics

Tests fonts, layers, metadata and full version history to flag edited statements, payslips and proof of address.

Altered document detected

Bank statement analysis

Turns any statement, Open Banking or not, into structured transaction data you can check against the deal.

Transaction mismatch

Invoice & proforma checks

Verifies supplier invoices and proformas, flagging inflated values, edited totals and dubious suppliers.

Invoice value inflated

Confirmation of Payee

Checks the payee and account details on business documents resolve to the named company or director.

Payee mismatch

Identity & address

Confirms the applicant and director are who they claim, and that the address and ID stand up to scrutiny.

ID inconsistency

Data enrichment API

Returns every signal as clean JSON so your origination or decision engine can act on it instantly.

Risk decision returned
ROI calculator

What document fraud is really costing your book

Set your monthly volume, then adjust the assumptions to match your business. We'll estimate the review time recovered, the fraud and wrongful-decline costs avoided, and your return on Fraudfinder spend.

500
6060,000
Your review costs
Minutes per manual check
Analyst salary (£ / year)
Fraudfinder fee per document (£)
Your current error costs
Fraud missed today (% of files)
Cost per missed fraud case (£)
Good applicants wrongly declined (%)
Cost per lost customer (£)
Errors Fraudfinder prevents (%)
28xestimated return on
Fraudfinder spend
Estimated net saving£342,000a year, or £28,500 a month
Review time recovered£0
Fraud and wrongful declines avoided£0
Less Fraudfinder cost−£0
Net saving a year£0
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Illustrative, based on the assumptions above, which you can change. "Errors Fraudfinder prevents" sets how much of your current fraud and wrongful-decline cost we remove. Review time is recovered for higher-value work, not cut. Not a quote or guarantee.

The Fraudfinder difference

Catch what the bureau and the human eye can't

A credit check reads history and a person reads the page. Fraudfinder reads the file itself, and catches what both miss.

Bureau score and manual review
  • Scores credit history, blind to a forged statement or invoice
  • Human review misses subtle edits and AI-generated documents
  • Can't keep pace as banks quietly change their statement templates
  • No hard evidence to hold the line when sales push a risky deal
Fraudfinder
  • Layered forensics read the document itself: fonts, metadata, structure and full version history
  • Benchmarked against a database of millions of real financial documents
  • Detects AI-generated and AI-edited files, and keeps pace with new bank templates
  • Gives your risk team explainable, downloadable evidence, ready for CIFAS
Commercial

Pricing that scales with you, not against you

Three things the bigger fraud vendors charge for that we don't, so rolling Fraudfinder out never works against your margin.

No charge per user

Add your whole fraud, risk and underwriting team. Seats are unlimited, so pricing never punishes you for rolling it out across the business.

Per document, not per page

A 40-page bank statement costs the same as a 4-page one. You pay per document checked, so long files never inflate your bill.

No platform fees

No large upfront licence or platform charge to get started. You pay for the checks you run and nothing else.

Pages in this applicant's bank statement18
Typical vendor · charged per page
18units billed for one document
Fraudfinder · charged per document
1unit billed, however long the file

Same statement. One charge. Long files never inflate your bill.

1 charge for this filenot 18 pages
Unlimited usersno per-seat fees
£0 platform feeno upfront licence
Use cases

Built for how business finance really underwrites

The moments where fraud slips through and good deals stall, drawn from how business finance risk teams actually work.

New-start & thin-file SMEs

No filed accounts, no bureau depth. Screen every startup on the documents alone, so you can say yes to new businesses without flying blind.

Broker & dealer-introduced flow

Fraud can reach payout through your introducer panel. Run every submitted deal yourself and apply a hard stop on bank statement fraud, whoever sent it.

Speed-critical decisions

When your edge is a same-day turnaround, a 3.4-second document check keeps fast deals fast without dropping your guard.

Niche & foreign bank statements

Statements from challenger, business-only and overseas banks your team rarely sees. Fraudfinder already knows the templates they don't.

Smaller-ticket, higher-risk deals

Fraud concentrates in smaller deals where scrutiny is lightest. Catch the manipulated statement on the sub-£100k facility, not just the big-ticket ones.

Evidence for CIFAS & risk over sales

Explainable, downloadable evidence your compliance team can file with CIFAS and use to hold the line when sales want the deal through.

Proof

Evidence your risk team can stand behind

“The ability to detect amendments to documents, on top of the font analysis, gives us another way of spotting fraudulent applications. It provides a robust evidence trail, and has prevented several fraudulent applications since we introduced it.”
Simon Williams
Simon WilliamsDirector of Operations & Compliance, Portman Asset Finance
Portman Finance Group
Read the Portman case study →
“Fraudfinder has quickly become an essential part of our fundamental checks at Halo. The ability to quickly verify fraud within our bank statements has significantly benefited our turnaround time and allowed us to support our own initial checks with data backed findings. This allows our team to safeguard our business by identifying fraud at the first point.”
Abigail Withers
Abigail WithersHalo Corporate Finance
Halo Corporate Finance
Read the Halo case study →
Trust & security

Built for regulated finance

Your applicants' data is handled to the standard finance demands.

ICO registeredInformation Commissioner's Office
GDPR compliantUK and EU data protection
Cyber EssentialsCertified
Penetration testedIndependently, on an ongoing basis
Questions

Business finance fraud prevention, answered

Business finance fraud is when an applicant uses false, altered or stolen information to obtain funding, whether asset finance, invoice finance, a working-capital or VAT loan, that they would not otherwise qualify for. Common forms include edited bank statements, fake or inflated invoices, doctored director income, and fraud where an underlying asset or invoice does not exist or is over-valued.

Fraudfinder runs forensic checks on the documents in each application, testing fonts, metadata, structure and full version history for signs of tampering, and cross-references supplier, invoice and payee details. It returns an explainable verdict in seconds so your team reviews only genuine risk.

Yes. Fraudfinder screens documents whether they arrive by API, portal upload or through a broker or dealer, so you can grow flow business without taking on hidden fraud risk from your introducer panel.

Document analysis returns an explainable fraud verdict in around 3.4 seconds, so it fits inside a same-day underwriting turnaround rather than slowing it down.

Fraudfinder is operated by Homeppl Ltd. It is ICO registered, GDPR compliant, Cyber Essentials certified and independently penetration tested.

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Benchmark your fraud rate. 500 checks, no commitment.

  • Run your real applications through Fraudfinder and see exactly what manual review is missing.
  • No platform fees or financial blockers. Drag-and-drop portal or API.
  • Your team set up and live in under an hour.

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