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Business Email Scams Spin Even Wider Webs

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If the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam isn’t on the radar of every corporate finance executive, it certainly should be. The problem is getting worse, according to the Association for Financial Professionals’ (AFP) latest Payments Fraud and Control Survey Report.

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Accountants Find Their Place In SMB FinTech Disruption

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The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) released its 2016 Electronic Payments Survey earlier this year and found that use of paper checks in B2B payments actually rose 1 percent compared to 2013 levels. About 44 percent of payments received are in the form of a paper check too, the report noted.