Le régulateur des marchés à terme de produits de base décide de rendre l'utilisation de nos services obligatoire pour tous les courtages réglementés

NASHVILLE, TN – July 23, 2012 – Within 24 hours of a regulatory mandate to use electronic audit-confirmation service Confirmation, PFGBest, a commodity brokerage unit of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc., was exposed as a multi-year $215 million fraud.

"PFGBest is a sadly common example of how easily bank and account information can be falsified to evade detection of accounting frauds," said Brian Fox, founder and president of Confirmation. "CEO Russell Wasendorf resisted using our service for months, presumably because he knew that as soon as electronic confirmation went into effect, he would be exposed. Nous avons assisté plusieurs fois à ce type de scénario depuis le lancement du service en 2000 : une résistance à notre système est un signal d'alarme indiquant une fraude ».

Dans cette affaire, les comptes de centaines d'investisseurs sur les marchés à terme de produits de base ont été bloqués pendant que les régulateurs tentent d'identifier l'emplacement des fonds.

Press reports indicate that the NFA is moving to mandate use of Confirmation by all of their regulated brokerages.

"This is a textbook case of how easy it is to use false mailing addresses and fax machines to conceal massive theft and fraud," Fox added, referring to the way Wasendorf faxed forged confirmation documents and provided auditors with what they presumed was a bank's address but has now been reported as being controlled by Wasendorf to avoid detection. « L'utilisation généralisée de notre système découragera ce type de fraude dans le futur ».

Auditors and financial institutions in more than 160 countries use Confirmation to help avoid the growing global propensity for fraud and the magnitude of those frauds. En vérifiant l'authenticité de chaque utilisateur, la solution dans le cloud de l'entreprise améliore non seulement la qualité des audits mais permet aussi aux investisseurs d'avoir une plus grande confiance dans les états financiers.

"This event, while tragic for its victims, is a tremendous validation of our service and an indictment on the outdated paper confirmation process," said Chris Schellhorn, CEO of Confirmation. « De nombreuses entreprises et institutions financières nous ont déjà contacté pour intégrer notre système et rassurer leurs investisseurs et clients sur la sécurité et la transparence de leurs comptes ».

Schellhorn and Fox added that they have seen a significant surge in business inquiries, which happened concurrently with a planned expansion of the service to overseas markets including Turkey, Australia, and South Africa.

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Confirmation is the digital platform and global network trusted by audit firms, banks, law firms, and credit managers to quickly and securely verify financial data. As the inventor of electronic confirmations in 2000, we reshaped and modernized the audit confirmation process. Today, Confirmation helps nearly a million clients across 160 countries confirm more than $1 trillion in financial data every year. Learn more at Confirmation.com.