By Lisa A. Tyler
National Escrow Administrator
An excerpt from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) 2022 Congressional Report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Real Estate Wire Fraud reveals a recommendation to change the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) governing the banking industry to prevent wire fraud. The much-needed recommendation is contained in the article titled “UNIFORM commercial code issue.”
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