Fraud Prevention Platform for CFOs

With Trustpair, avoid vendor fraud. Focus your efforts on high-value missions and strategic decision-making.

Fraud Prevention Challenges for CFOs
Protect

96% of US businesses were targeted by vendor fraud at least once in 2023. Secure your financial processes thanks to automated account validation.

Optimize
Manual fraud prevention is time-consuming and fallible. Boost your finance team’s efficiency and break down silos thanks to automation.
Digitalize
P2P processes are vulnerable to vendor fraud from start to finish. Implement best-in-breed integrated software to get to 0 fraud.

Vendor Fraud: a Growing Challenge for CFOs

 

Vendor payment fraud is on the rise, with 96% of US companies targeted at least once in 2023. The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has made it easier for fraudsters to create convincing phishing – whaling, spear phishing, etc – schemes across various platforms. As cybersecurity and fraud become increasingly intertwined, detection grows more challenging. The impact of vendor fraud can have cascading effects: financial losses, damaged reputation, severed partner ties…

To combat this escalating risk, CFOs must prioritize cybersecurity and fraud prevention investments to protect their businesses and assets effectively.

How to Avoid Vendor Fraud?

The ultimate solution for CFOs to avoid vendor fraud is implementing fraud prevention software like Trustpair to confidently validate vendor bank accounts throughout the P2P process. Our fraud prevention platform:

Our automated account validation system is based on the most comprehensive network of bank account databases on the market and checks:

Boosting Team Efficiency to Remain Competitive

CFOs face the ongoing challenge of maintaining competitiveness. Operational efficiency is critical and traditional fraud prevention and vendor management methods can hinder productivity and efficiency.

Manual fraud prevention controls (by email, text message, callbacks, etc)  take up at least 30 minutes for one vendor. With Trustpair’s automated validation, results are instant.

How does Trustpair help CFOs?

We offer comprehensive protection against vendor fraud risks, a growing concern for CFOs. With fraud on the rise, it’s crucial to safeguard cash flow and maintain positive relationships with customers and suppliers.

Our anti-fraud solution ensures 100% reliability of vendor data throughout the procure-to-pay process. By leveraging banking data, smart algorithms, and human expertise, Trustpair secures the payment chain from end to end, eradicating the risk of vendor fraud.

This enhances security but also frees up finance teams’ time, reducing manual verifications and embracing digital transformation. With Trustpair, CFOs can ensure they always know who they’re paying, allowing their businesses to thrive in an increasingly complex financial landscape.

The Key Benefits of Using Trustpair

0 successful fraud

at any of our 300+ clients

190 countries

covered by our banking data sources

90%

of vendor evaluations delivered instantly

Your fortress against vendor fraud

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) face several significant challenges in today’s business environment:

  • Navigating uncertainty: CFOs must deal with unstable financial markets, geopolitical unrest, and economic volatility. This includes managing inflation, higher interest rates, and potential recessions. To address this, CFOs need to stay informed about global trends, use data-driven models for planning, and invest in talent development.

  • Maintaining profitability: With increasing price sensitivity among consumers and businesses, CFOs must focus on both increasing revenues and lowering costs. This may involve exploring dynamic pricing strategies and implementing cost optimization measures, such as greater automation in finance processes.

  • Optimizing cash flow: Cash management is crucial in the current economy. CFOs need to leverage modern software for real-time cash flow forecasting and financial analytics. This helps in making informed decisions about debt, equity, and investment opportunities.

  • Compliance management: Keeping up with evolving financial regulations, including Anti-Money Laundering laws and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting requirements, is an ongoing challenge. CFOs need to improve data management and adopt tools that facilitate easier and faster reporting.

  • Combating increasing fraud risks: With a significant rise in fraud attempts targeting companies, CFOs must prioritize cybersecurity and fraud prevention. This includes investing in anti-fraud software and implementing robust security measures to protect against sophisticated cyber threats.

To address these challenges effectively, CFOs are increasingly turning to digital transformation, adopting advanced financial technologies, and focusing on data-driven decision-making to navigate the complex business landscape of 2024 and beyond.

CFOs today face a rapidly evolving financial landscape, and their top priorities reflect the need to balance strategic growth with risk management. In the coming years, CFOs will focus on:

  1.  Leveraging technology: Implementing advanced financial technology to streamline processes and gain deeper insights into organizational performance.

  2. Strategic planning: Taking a more active role in long-term planning to drive sustainable growth and optimize costs.

  3. Risk management: Developing robust frameworks to identify, assess, and mitigate financial and operational risks.

  4. Talent development: Attracting and retaining top finance talent to build a high-performing finance function.

  5. Cost optimization: Implementing innovative cost-cutting measures while maintaining service quality.

  6. Data-driven decision-making: Utilizing analytics to provide valuable insights for strategic decision-making.

  7. Digital transformation: Leading the finance function’s digital transformation to improve efficiency and agility.

  8. Regulatory compliance: Staying ahead of changing regulations and ensuring organizational compliance.

  9. Sustainability initiatives: Incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into financial planning.

  10. Business partnering: Collaborating closely with other C-suite leaders to drive overall organizational success.

By focusing on these priorities, CFOs will help their organizations navigate uncertainties, capitalize on growth opportunities, and maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly complex business environment.

CFO fraud, also known as executive fraud or C-suite fraud, is a type of financial deception perpetrated by high-level executives within a company.

It involves the manipulation of financial records, misrepresentation of company performance, or misappropriation of funds by those in positions of financial authority. CFO fraud can take various forms, including falsifying financial statements, embezzlement, insider trading, or creating fictitious transactions to inflate profits.

These fraudulent activities are often complex and well-concealed, making them challenging to detect. The motivations behind CFO fraud may include personal financial gain, meeting performance targets, or maintaining the appearance of company success.

The consequences of such fraud can be severe, leading to significant financial losses for the company, damage to its reputation, legal repercussions, and loss of investor confidence. High-profile cases of CFO fraud have led to increased scrutiny and stricter regulations in corporate financial reporting and governance. To combat CFO fraud, companies implement robust internal controls, regular audits, and whistleblower programs, while also fostering a culture of ethical behavior and transparency.

Another significant type of CFO fraud involves criminals impersonating the Chief Financial Officer to deceive employees or partners. In this scheme, fraudsters often use sophisticated social engineering tactics to mimic the CFO’s communication style and authority. They typically send urgent emails or make phone calls requesting immediate wire transfers or sensitive financial information. These attacks often exploit the hierarchical nature of organizations, pressuring lower-level employees to act quickly without proper verification. The consequences can be severe, potentially resulting in substantial financial losses and damaged business relationships.

CFOs are responsible for preventing various types of fraud that can significantly impact their organizations. The main types of fraud CFOs must guard against include:

  • Vendor fraud: Fraudulent activities related to suppliers, including fake vendor schemes or collusion between employees and vendors.
  • Employee fraud: Internal fraud committed by staff, including embezzlement, payroll fraud, and expense report fraud.
  • Financial statement fraud: Intentional misrepresentation of financial information to mislead stakeholders.
  • Cybersecurity fraud: Phishing attacks, data breaches, and other cyber threats that can compromise financial data and systems.
  • Identity theft: Theft of company or employee information for fraudulent purposes.
  • Asset misappropriation: Theft or misuse of company assets, including cash, inventory, or equipment.
  • Procurement fraud: Manipulation of the purchasing process for personal gain.
  • Accounting fraud: Manipulation of accounting records to conceal losses or inflate profits.
  • Money laundering: Using the company to disguise illegally obtained funds as legitimate business income.

CFOs must implement robust internal controls, leverage technology solutions, and foster a culture of integrity to effectively prevent and detect these fraud types.

TESTIMONIALS

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Explore how our solutions have empowered businesses like yours 
to fortify against fraud and build a resilient financial ecosystem.
malika befares
Malika Benfares
Head of Treasury and Consolidation
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"Trustpair gives us more reliability and peace of mind. The financial director is more serene when it comes to approving the transfer order."

Michele Bruno
Michele Bruno
CFO and Treasurer
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"With Trustpair’s verification methodology, it's no longer just a consistency check but an exact confirmation of the validity of the third party: there is no longer any risk."

Joffrey Tabouret
Joffrey Tabouret
Head of Treasury and Financing
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"With Trustpair, we are able to automatically and quickly monitor our third parties and ensure the security of that very data over the long term."

Fabrice meunier
Fabrice Meunier
Administrative and Financial Manager
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“I would definitely recommend Trustpair to finance departments. It makes adding and modifying beneficiaries more reliable, without resorting to manual processes that are cumbersome, time-consuming and fallible.”

Fanny Harquel
Fanny Harquel
Accountability Manager
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“The control process is simplified with the Trustpair solution, the Finance Department is reassured and, above all, it no longer needs to waste time performing manual checks to verify a supplier's bank details.”

Colin Cesena
Colin Cesena
Middle Office Treasury Manager
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"Trustpair adapts very well to the specifics of our market and our way of working. Several features are developed as we work together. That's a real plus."

Mechain Etienne
Etienne Mechain
Financial Manager
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"Trustpair has become more than a reflex; it has become an obligation. The team no longer validates an IBAN unless Trustpair has confirmed it to us."

mauro portela
Mauro Portela
GBS - Managing Director Global MDM Operations
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Thanks to Trustpair, we’ve made a significant shift in our security processes and filled the gaps we needed to fill. Trustpair has proved to be a committed and trustful partner and we’ve appreciated the support and transparency.

Monika Razny
Monika Razny
Treasury and Corporate Finance Manager
edf renewables

We’ve gone from manual and time-consuming fraud controls to automated bank account validation done directly in SAP. The workload has been drastically reduced and payment security is now guaranteed.

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