Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The article analyses the development of scientific researches of problems of combating crime in banking in general and bank lending in particular, which includes several stages: the first –the problem of detection and investigation of thefts committed by officials in the institutions of the State Bank of the former USSR; the second – on the stage of the banking system formation in independent Ukraine (detection of fraud in lending, bank accounts, foreign exchange transactions, etc.); the third – the current period associated with the globalization of financial markets and the introduction of cyber technologies, where the differentiation of scientific research studies on areas of criminal law and criminology, criminalistics, operational detective activities with the use of active comparative approaches, is made.