Around the world, businesses have been caught unprepared in dealing with the challenges brought by Covid-19 in early 2020. The finance sector in particular is neither immune to, nor has escaped, the impacts of the pandemic.

As countries went into lockdown one by one, remote working and reliance on digital platforms and online transactions became the new norm. This new way of working has also brought about a heightened risk of fraud in the sector.

Such fraud can take many forms: