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Financial leakage report 2026: The $53bn opportunity

Every year, $53 billion can vanish from Accounts Payable departments through duplicate payments, invoice errors, missing credit notes and fraud.
 
Read the full report to:
  • Understand how traditional controls cost businesses 0.35% of spend 
  • Understand how leakage undermines your entire function, from AP managers to CFOs
  • Learn how top AP teams use automation to prevent losses proactively and become strategic business partners

Understanding financial leakage

Your company is bleeding money — and you might not realise how much. Businesses lose an estimated 0.35% of total annual spend to financial leakage through duplicate payments, invoicing errors, missing credit notes and fraud. That's $53 billion vanishing into thin air every year. This might look like paying the same invoice twice due to a "0" vs "O" typo, or overpaying £2,500 on a £50,000 purchase from incorrect tax rates.
 
Read the full report today to learn how leakage might be affecting your business. 

Why financial leakage happens

Financial leakage happens because AP teams are armed with tools that simply can't keep up. ERPs only catch exact duplicate matches. Recovery audits are expensive band-aids that only find problems months or years later and cost 15–25% in fees. Manual reconciliation is so time-consuming that 85–90% of supplier statements never get checked. And other rules-based systems flood teams with false alerts while real errors slip through undetected.
Financial Leakage report

Transforming AP with proactive controls

Stop playing catch-up with yesterday's problems. AI automation prevents errors before payments go out, eliminates expensive recovery audits and helps transform AP from a back-office cost centre into a strategic profit protector.

Read the report to learn how you can use automation to plug the leaks in your organisation. 
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Events and webinars you may be interested in

  • Xelix Roundtable

    2026 Connect Roadshow Series

    London roundtable: Taking control of financial leakage

    24 February 2026

    9:00 am - 1:00 pm ()

    Rotunda King's Cross, London

    Companies lose billions of annual spend to financial leakage through duplicate payments, invoicing errors, missing credit notes and fraud. Learn how leading Finance teams are taking control. Join Liberty Blume and Xelix ...

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    2026 Connect Roadshow Series

    Dallas roundtable: Taking control of financial leakage

    3 March 2026

    10:00 am - 2:00 pm (CST/CDT)

    The Woolworth, Dallas TX

    Companies lose billions of annual spend to financial leakage through duplicate payments, invoicing errors, missing credit notes and fraud. Learn how leading Finance teams are taking control. Join Ferguson and Xelix for ...

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