20 Data Points to Identify Vendor Risk and Payment Fraud

Payment fraud costs organizations billions every year—but fraud is only one piece of the exposure. Financial instability, cyber incidents, and inadequate insurance coverage can create supplier risk that disrupts operations, drives losses, and increases compliance burden.

This webinar is designed for Finance, Compliance, Internal Audit (and vendor risk stakeholders) who want a practical, data-driven approach to uncover hidden fraud and proactively assess third-party risk. We’ll walk through 20 key data points that help you detect payment fraud schemes and identify broader vendor risk signals—so you can act before issues escalate.

Key Takeaways
During this webinar, you’ll learn how to use 20 indicators spanning fraud + financial + cyber + insurance risk, including:

• Supplier Master Data Signals
  Spot red flags like false tax IDs, employee data matches, or suspicious addresses, along with inconsistencies that indicate elevated supplier risk.
  
  
• Bank Account–Specific Indicators
  Why bank account ownership validation is one of the most effective controls to prevent fraud—and what additional bank-account data points can signal potential fraudulent activity or takeover attempts.
  
  
• Transactional & Invoice Pattern Signals
  Identify suspicious patterns in invoice and payment activity (e.g., consecutively numbered invoices) that can reveal schemes hiding in plain sight.
  
  
• Cyber / Data Security Risk Indicators
  Learn how to identify and reduce risk tied to email compromises and data security weaknesses that could lead to unauthorized access or sensitive data leakage.
  
  
• Financial Risk Indicators
  Understand how credit risk, failure risk, bankruptcy indicators, and real-time financial alerts can reveal supplier instability before it impacts your business.
  
  
• Insurance Risk Indicators
  See how insurance coverage gaps can signal third-party claim exposure that may create material financial and operational risk.
  
  
• apexanalytix Innovations
  We’ll share apex innovations that help identify fraud, strengthen vendor risk screening, and improve confidence in legitimate bank account change requests.

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 30 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Matthew Morookian
Director of Product Marketing, apexanalytix

As Director of Product Marketing at apexanalytix, Matthew Morookian leads the development of product messaging and content for apex’s solutions. Prior to apex, Matthew was responsible for client engagements and marketing for the IoT consulting firm 151 Advisors. He received his MBA at Baruch College.