65% of financial professionals blame pandemic for increase in payments fraud
by Ben Poole
The 2021 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey, underwritten by J.P. Morgan, found business email compromise fraud attempts at 62% of companies.
Minimizing Payment Fraud
Background
One of the biggest sources of fraud in most organisations is payment fraud. Typically the biggest sources of payment fraud are from: cheques particularly in accounts payable and disbursement accounts.…
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Jack and Ben review the key posts from the last two weeks on CTMfile
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