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APRIL 10, 2019

While corporates are adopting stronger internal controls to combat the threat of payments fraud, new data from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) reveals the number of incidents has continued to climb to new heights. ”

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APRIL 14, 2017

The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) came out with some scary statistics this month: B2B payments fraud is not only on the rise, but at its highest levels ever since the AFP began recording this information. But there are other ways the AFP found businesses are exposed to payments fraud, most notably through the BEC scam.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

New research from the realms of supply chain management, financial services and SMEs uncovers how businesses today are approaching risk mitigation and which threats are instilling the most fear. 40% more cyberbreaches impacted U.S. businesses in 2016 than the year prior, found CyberScout.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Estimates from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found that more than a third of fraud attacks on the enterprise came from within the organization itself. While most corporations are hesitant to admit it, fraud initiated by a company’s own employees is quite common — and incredibly expensive.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

More than a third (36 percent) of survey respondents said fraud monitoring and risk mitigation are the areas in which CFOs are most falling short. That’s followed closely by performance risk management and strategic/operational risk management, each cited by 32 percent of survey respondents as areas in which CFOs fail to deliver.

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