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But many fear remote bookkeeping exposes them to security risks – hackers, fraudsters, and embezzlement – especially if the virtual bookkeeping solutions use employees in foreign countries. Bookkeeping security risks are always a valid concern, especially since internal staff perpetrate 57% of small business fraud.
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Eisenbach, Anna Kovner and Michael Junho Lee, is “Cyber Risk and the US FinancialSystem: A Pre-Mortem Analysis.”. The cyberattack in question could wreak havoc on financial firms. The authors seek to quantify how the attacks may be “amplified” through the financialsystem. counties, the authors added.
The banks “failed as a result of a combination of unrealized interest rate losses from their long-term, fixed-rate assets and the loss of the low-rate deposits that had funded these assets,” Larry Wall, research center executive director of the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, explained in a blog post.
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