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by Bija Knowles
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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. In the US, in 2014, 77 per cent of organisations were subject to attempted or actual cheque fraud*;… Read more about Minimizing Payment Fraud
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