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Australians reported losing $166.8 million to payment redirection scams in 2025, up 9.3% on the year before. The invoice is genuine and the amount is right, but the bank details have been changed, so finance teams need to catch the fraud before the payment leaves, not when the real supplier calls.
Amy CheungRead Article 
ASIC is tightening its focus on financial reporting and audit failures. For finance leaders, reliable reporting starts with transaction-level controls and an attributable audit trail that can stand up to scrutiny.
Liam Waldron
When experienced employees leave, financial controls can lose the judgement and context that make them effective. Treating departures as financial control events helps protect against supplier, revenue and payment leakage before money moves.
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Angelina Tang
Organisations lose an average of 11% of contract value after signing, through missed discounts, incorrect price increases and auto-renewals on outdated terms. Most of these errors are only caught in a later audit, once the money has already been paid and is much harder to recover.
Cooper Barnard-Brown
ASIC's record $350 million in civil penalties in the second half of 2025 is a clear warning that governance can't be a periodic exercise. Finance leaders need continuous, real-time controls that surface issues before they become financial loss, remediation and damaged trust.
Amy Cheung
Inefficient accounts receivable processes rarely fail in one big way, they build through incorrect invoices, missed follow-ups, and unbilled work that quietly compound into lost revenue and cash flow pressure. Research shows 78% of finance leaders cite cash flow problems and high days sales outstanding as key consequences of these gaps.
Angelina Tang
While most scam categories fell in 2025, payment redirection fraud rose 9.3% to $166.8 million, and a recent court case shows why: a finance team did everything right, verified by phone, followed up by email, and still ended up paying a fraudulent invoice twice.
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Contracts don’t erode on their own, they erode because nobody’s watching the value in real time. What would finding your 8.6% do for this year’s margin?
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Contracts don’t erode on their own, they erode because nobody’s watching the value in real time. What would finding your 8.6% do for this year’s margin?
Liam Waldron
Contracts don’t erode on their own, they erode because nobody’s watching the value in real time. What would finding your 8.6% do for this year’s margin?
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For decades, CFO governance ran on the close: periodic, retrospective, after the fact. Real-Time Governance flips that, embedding continuous assurance into the flow of the business itself.
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What happens to financial control when your most experienced accounts payable operator leaves, and takes years of organisational memory with them?
Cooper Barnard-Brown
What if the weakest payment control is not approval, but the supplier record everyone assumes is clean?
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What if your reconciliations are finished, but the control risk is still sitting there?
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