Our Head of Payments Taylor Nemeth contributed this article to University Business

3 Best Practices for Preventing Payments Fraud

PaymentWorks is featured in this article by PaymentsNEXT.

How Universities Are Fighting Payments Fraud

When it comes to fraud, universities are just one more appealing target for cybercriminals. Like many businesses, universities are taking proactive measures to prevent B2B fraud, and they’re looking to digital identity platforms and automation to reduce their vulnerability to attack dramatically12 minutes and editing.

Like the recent Florida municipal water attack, universities and other public institutions and businesses are all under attack by fraudsters.

According to the FBI, in 2019, $1.7 billion was stolen through business email compromise scams in the US. Globally, Nilson estimates 2020 payment fraud more than tripled from $9.84 billion in 2011 to $32.39 billion in 2020.

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Automating pervasive manual processes eliminates the risk of business payments fraud and ensures consistency of payments despite pandemic-driven changes to internal controls   

Waltham, MA – Feb 15, 2021 – PaymentWorks today announced higher education institutions across the country are increasingly relying on the PaymentWorks Business Identity Platform to automate critical payee identity processes and eliminate the risk of business payments fraud. Notable new customers include Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), The University of Tennessee and The University of Alabama. For more on how we help universities know who they are doing business with visit, paymentworks.com/how-it-works.

Partnership Expands Affordable Access to Secure Vendor Management in an Era of Remote Work

February 4, 2021, Waltham, MA and Jericho, NY-  PaymentWorks and E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) recently launched a competitively solicited lead public agency (LPA) contract for supplier information management (SIM) systems. This agreement creates an avenue for E&I members in higher education and K-12 to implement secure, repeatable, transparent vendor onboarding and relationship management. 

Yakut Akman has 40 years of experience in financial services, covering a wide range of functions globally, including Operations & Technology, Risk Management, Audit, and Regulatory Compliance.  She joined our podcast to share her prescription for how to structure third party risk at any sized organization.

Company increases revenue by 200%, increases enterprise customer base by 80% and unveils the markets first fraud indemnification program 

Waltham, MA – January 19, 2021 – The impact of the global pandemic on the way we conduct business significantly accelerated the market shift to digital payments, especially among enterprises which still predominantly rely on check based payments. Moreover, the massive disruption to the workplace as organizations transitioned to virtual operations exposed them to unprecedented cyber threats, most notably business payments fraud which according to the FBI saw a dramatic uptick in 2020. PaymentWorks unique business identity platform automates the complex payee management process and eliminates the risk of business payments fraud. By helping organizations make the critical shift to digital payments and secure their operations from external threats, PaymentWorks was able to achieve rapid growth in 2020.  To learn more about our unique business identity platform, visit HERE. 

Our CEO Thayer Stewart recently contributed this column to PaymentsNext:

Three Predictions for B2B Payments: Where Next for ACH Credit Transactions?

Everywhere you look, the statistics on B2B payments point to a rapid rise in the adoption of digital payments. Checks are still around, of course (and continue to cost businesses money to process), but according to a report from Statista, ACH credit transactions have taken over as the number one choice for B2B payments.

In 2019 alone, the nonprofit group Nacha found B2B payments on the ACH Network had reached an all-time high citing a whopping $4 billion in B2B payment transactions. Given the impact of the pandemic, this number is sure to rise for 2020 as well.

Our CEO Thayer Stewart recently published a column in PaymentsJournal.

Dirty Little Secret – Business Payments Fraud Is Real and It’s Coming For You: Actionable Ways to Mitigate Risk Today

Each day, financial institutions see hundreds of thousands of payments come in and hundreds of thousands of payments go out. And with humans still at the epicenter of these transactions–tasked with authenticating and authorizing payment is in fact going to the right vendor–businesses are left vulnerable to increasingly savvy fraudsters. 

Read the entire article on PaymentsJournal.

PaymentWorks Presents Risky Business Episode 4: Where's My Vendor?

From changes stemming from COVID to what keeps them up at night, listen to Wendy Grayauskie from Villanova University and Miguel Silva from California State University Monterey Bay share what life is like on the front lines of vendor management.

Listen to the full podcast here.

Read the blog here.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Session Titled “Payments Fraud and Your Vendor Master: Uncovering Hidden Risks”