The article examines certain aspects of abuse of authority in the banking system as an object of scientific forensic analysis. The legislation regulating the activities of credit institutions as one of the elements of the banking system, the mechanisms of criminal law protection are analyzed, it is proved that the method of forensic analysis is the most optimal, which allows to identify and systematize abuse of authority in the banking system. This situation is due to the fact that this method of scientific knowledge begins with the study of general and particular elements of banking activity. Then, based on the revealed patterns, a model of the criminal activity of the subject is created, in its statics and dynamics. Conclusion. As a result of the conducted research, the author comes to the conclusion that the scientific criminalistic analysis of the crime in general and the considered illegal act in particular is an important element of the cognitive activity of the authorized subject, which is aimed at obtaining and systematizing information about the committed or impending crime in order to identify criminally significant information about the method of abuse of authority in the banking system and other circumstances of this acts, the identity of the perpetrator and the victim, as well as the mechanism of trace formation, necessary for its investigation and solving other tasks of criminal proceedings.