check fraud

Easy Pickings for BEC Criminals?
Easy Pickings for BEC Criminals?
October 05, 2018  |  B2B Payments

When it comes to BEC fraud, the fruit is low hanging, according to data from Dark Shadows -- tens of thousands of finance department emails...

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Businesses Being Blindsided By Check Fraud, TROY Warns
Businesses Being Blindsided By Check Fraud, TROY Warns
October 02, 2018  |  B2B Payments

The saying has probably been heard before: Don’t accept or cash checks from a stranger. The consumer world is well-versed on the threat of check...

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Standard Chartered Woes Extend To Expense Account Fraud
Standard Chartered Woes Extend To Expense Account Fraud
June 14, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Standard Chartered’s ongoing investigation into various forms of misconduct has uncovered expense account fraud of an eye-popping nature. In the meantime, the AFP finds that...

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Why Checks Are Still Golden For High-Risk Sellers
Why Checks Are Still Golden For High-Risk Sellers
June 14, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Paper checks have become the ugly (yet popular) duckling of the B2B payments industry. They are slow and cumbersome, require manual data entry and are...

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China Finds A Blockchain-Based Replacement For Checks
China Finds A Blockchain-Based Replacement For Checks
June 05, 2018  |  Blockchain

According to reports in CoinDesk, care of a Chinese government official, China’s central bank has completed its work on a blockchain-based system for digitizing checks...

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Treasurers Overconfident On Cyber Defenses
Treasurers Overconfident On Cyber Defenses
April 30, 2018  |  B2B Payments

With a threefold increase in the number of corporates who had been hit by a ransomware attack in the last year compared to a year...

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New Channels, Bad Checks And Surprising Payments Partners
New Channels, Bad Checks And Surprising Payments Partners
April 24, 2018  |  Today In Data

Paradigm shifts don’t happen often, but lately they seem to have a way of creeping up on the payments and commerce ecosystem. Checks may be...

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Employees Steal $50 Billion From SMBs Every Year
Employees Steal $50 Billion From SMBs Every Year
September 14, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Employees are stealing billions of dollars from their U.S. small business (SMB) employers every year, according to new data from Statistic Brain and reported in...

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Breaking Down The Data Behind Record Levels Of B2B Payments Fraud
Breaking Down The Data Behind Record Levels Of B2B Payments Fraud
April 14, 2017  |  B2B Payments

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...

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