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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

A new report from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found that only about a tenth of surveyed corporate treasurers are prepared for emerging technologies like blockchain and machine learning to disrupt the enterprise. That means RPA can handle simple, repetitive tasks as well as more complex tasks, the AFP explained.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Between omnichannel procurement, multi-rail payment tools and cross-border trade, treasury management systems (TMS) seem like an obvious necessity for modern conglomerates. Nearly half of the companies surveyed by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and Bloomberg aren’t using a treasury management system.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Corporate treasury is now more strategic for the enterprise, meaning chief financial officers and treasurers must be close-knit with their organizations’ boards of directors. 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.

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MARCH 5, 2018

More recently, the Association for Financial Professionals’ (AFP) 2017 Risk Survey found nearly half of businesses say their exposure to uncertainty is higher than it was three years ago, and 51 percent say forecasting risks will be more difficult three years from now than it is today.

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