Preventing Financial Crimes
Regions Bank On Protecting B2B Payments From Business Email Compromise
With many businesses digitizing their operations, fraudsters are taking a new approach to business email compromise (BEC) scams: slipping onto businesses’ email servers and collecting insights to help them more accurately mimic company executives or vendors. In the inaugural Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook, Jeff Taylor, senior vice president of commercial fraud forensics at Regions Bank, discusses how using automated technologies and educating employees can help weed out BEC scams.
Inside the April Playbook
• An interview with Jeff Taylor, senior vice president of commercial fraud forensics and payment strategy at Regions Bank, on why social engineering scams represent a rising threat to businesses and how companies can best ward against them
• The latest payment fraud developments, including why 79 percent of U.K. firms say the move to remote working has negatively affected their cybersecurity measures and how BEC scams are resulting in a spike in payment fraud
• A Deep Dive analyzing fraud prevention strategies that can best protect against BEC scams as fraudsters increasingly use them to target businesses’ digital payments and invoicing processes
