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Fraud Prevention Best Practices Use this checklist as a guide to protect your business: Check before you click—be on the alert for business email compromise or malware Reconcile accounts frequently (preferably daily). Ensure that adequate procedures are defined and followed for all types of payments (paper, electronic, and digital). Provide ongoing training to employees on […]
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Our Cyber Fraud Index Score reflects executives’ insecurities. During an era of rising cybercrime, we asked C-Suite executives how confident they are in their organization’s ability to protect itself from cyber fraud. Our Cyber Fraud Index Score represents the percentages who answered “Very Confident” or “Confident”. We took the elevator up to the c-suite for […]
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Fraud remains a concern for business leaders, as the prevalence of cyberattacks continues to escalate. As businesses enhance their strategies, cybercriminals are equally enhancing their tactics, aiming to outwit established safeguards. This trend has led to businesses shouldering more of the responsibility to combat cybercrime. What Is Business Email Compromise (BEC) aka Phishing? Phishing is […]
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Financial news in the first half of 2025 has been dominated by uncertainty over President Trump’s ongoing tariff negotiations with US global trade partners. Our friends at Capital Group define a tariff as a tax on goods imported from other countries. In their excellent “Guide to Tariffs” they detail various motivations for implementing tariffs on […]
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