Check fraud is on the rise again. The U.S. Postal Service just alerted financial institutions that check fraud DOUBLED from 2021 to 2022. Individuals are most at risk for seeing their bank accounts ransacked and identities compromised, but the thieves are putting businesses that rely on the mail to make payments and get paid at […]
If you’re lucky, the only kind of employee theft you’ll have to worry about at your company is parents swiping office supplies for their kids to save a few bucks of their own. Or maybe a cheapskate employee who helps himself to someone else’s lunch from the breakroom fridge. Imagine your staffers plotting to sell […]
Heads up: Companies can avoid criminal prosecution and million-dollar payouts for serious violations and mistakes by taking advantage of the Justice Department’s self-reporting policy. Justice recently revised the parameters for self-reporting so that it’s applied evenly in all districts. All of the conditions are crystal-clear, which is great news for execs and company lawyers that […]
The IRS is sounding the alarm about the top 12 – aka the “dirty dozen” – tax scams that are tripping up businesses, tax professionals and individual taxpayers this spring. The dirty dozen changes every year as cybercriminals come up with new ways to acquire businesses’ and individuals’ data, be it their Social Security numbers, […]
Companies know that clients prefer doing business with environmentally responsible partners. If a company is doing something to reduce plastic waste, save water or limit carbon emissions, it’s good for the bottom line to publicize those efforts. Caveat: Claims of being “green” or “100% recyclable” can backfire – badly. Environmental groups and the Federal Trade […]
Increasingly clever cybercriminals are out to take your company’s money. They’d even stoop so low as hacking you with a purchase order that looks real. For example, emails with an attachment disguised as a purchase order can contain links to a bogus site that looks real enough to trick users into sharing sensitive account information. […]
Many companies are turning to even faster payment methods, such as embedded finance solutions and banking as a service products. In fact, according to a PYMNTS report, more than four out of 10 businesses (41%) are using real-time payments to some degree. But while switching to these faster payment capabilities makes life better by making […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just fined a company $35 million because it didn’t maintain adequate disclosure rules for tracking workplace complaints and violated whistleblower protections for departing employees. The only problem? The SEC admits not a single employee of the company came to the SEC to complain about its practices. And there’s no […]
With remote work here to stay, A/P has to work harder to verify crucial information, such as vendor bank account numbers. Unfortunately, fraudsters are also working hard. They’ve been busy exploiting dispersed Finance teams’ increased reliance on email for routing invoices for approval, getting payments approved and collecting vendor bank account info. An easy-to-miss attack […]
