Capability

Secure Movement of Funds

Hardened processes that protect against fraud, mis-direction, and counterparty failure.

What this covers

The work, in substance

Most large-transfer losses don't come from market movement — they come from authorised push payment fraud, mis-keyed details, or socially engineered changes to standing instructions.

We harden the process: every change verified out-of-band, every payee diligence-checked, every action dual-approved.

Deliverables

What you receive

01Multi-channel verification of beneficiary details
02Standing instructions and dual-approval workflow
03Counterparty due-diligence on new payees
04Incident playbook for failed or recalled transfers
Approach

How we deliver

  1. Step 01
    Verify

    Confirm beneficiary details through a second channel before any wire is released.

  2. Step 02
    Authorise

    Apply dual-approval and threshold-based authorisation aligned to your governance.

  3. Step 03
    Reconcile

    Match settlement against instructions and archive the trail.

Considerations

Risks we address

The non-obvious factors we explicitly plan for so they don't surface as surprises later.

Push-payment fraud

Most modern losses; mitigated by out-of-band verification on every change.

Standing instruction risk

Old templates accumulate stale data; we audit them annually.

Recall windows

Time-critical for misdirected wires; an incident playbook is in place.

Insurance interface

Process aligned to your cyber and crime policy requirements.

In Practice

An anonymised example

Scenario

A finance team had been targeted twice with fraudulent supplier-detail changes. We rebuilt the payment workflow with mandatory phone-back verification, dual approval above $50k, and quarterly standing-instruction audits.

Results
  • Two attempted frauds intercepted within the first quarter
  • Average payment-prep time held flat despite extra controls
  • Cyber insurer reduced excess on the policy at renewal

Details altered to protect client identity

FAQ

Common questions

Authorised push payment fraud — a legitimate person sending funds to a fraudulent account after social engineering. Almost every loss we see traces back to a missing out-of-band verification step.
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