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Jonna Mendez, an author and former CIA Chief of Disguise, spoke about her career in the intelligence community and lessons learned as a woman in her field at the 35th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. Mendez highlighted ways in which intelligence professionals shared encrypted information and how they constantly innovated to stay ahead in the secretive and dangerous world of espionage.
Read MoreEthics and compliance programs are becoming increasingly significant in the business world as more consumers and corporations turn their attentions to the importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) business initiatives. As a result, the business environment needs to think about ethics and compliance in newer ways.
Read MoreYou have probably heard the term “human trafficking”, but you may not have thought it had a connection to business, finance or fraud. According to Matt Friedman, it does. Friedman, who has had a 30-plus year career in countertrafficking, shared his insights and experience at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific.
Read MoreOn a daily basis, NICE Actimize, an anti-fraud and anti-money laundering company and one of the sponsors of the 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, monitors five billion transactions and protects more than $6 trillion. NICE Actimize Global Head Fraud Market Strategy and Prevention – SME, Rob Rendell, CFE, used these statistics to break down scam trends he and his company have been seeing in the conference session, “Scams Playbook: Detect, Deter, and Prevent, Sponsored by NICE Actimize.”
Read MoreIf you Google your name, you will find many tidbits on yourself that are, somehow, public information – even information that you tried very hard to keep private. It may be a nuisance to many, but to investigators, publicly available information or open-source intelligence (OSINT) is quite handy. This was the subject of “Use Public Information to Your Advantage in Fraud Investigations,” an educational session from ACFE Regent and Senior Vice President of J.S. Held LLC, Natalie Lewis, CFE, CPA/CFF.
Read MoreTo prevent fraud within your organization, you will need to build an army of fraud fighters. This was the general message Mary Breslin, CFE, CIA, ACA conveyed in her educational session at the 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, titled “Fraud Awareness 2.0: An Army of Fraud Fighters.”
So, why does an army need to be established? According to Breslin, most people are not 100% clear on what fraud is and those people need some help learning about fraud through examples. Many people don’t know how to differentiate waste and abuse from fraud, so that’s where we can come in and provide a little nudge.
Read MoreYou have probably heard the phrase, “Proper planning prevents poor performance.” That is how one of the session panelists introduced the 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference session, “72 Hours to Get it Right, Sponsored by FORVIS,” which focused on the role of timeliness when it comes to fraud investigations. FORVIS forensics and valuation services professionals Erik Lioy, CFE, CPA/CFF, Zachary Powers, and Pat Hoan, CFE, CPA, wanted to prove that the actions taken by fraud investigations in the first three days after a potential fraud is uncovered play a crucial role in the direction of the investigation.
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