Report by Corpay

Cybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend

6 FINDINGSPublished Oct 8, 2025
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Key Findings

37% of UK CFOs surveyed cite cybersecurity and data privacy concerns as a significant barrier to automation

CorpayCybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend ·Oct 8, 2025
UKCFOAutomationCybersecurityData privacy

Nearly all (94%) UK finance leaders surveyed plan to increase cyber investment over the next year.

CorpayCybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend ·Oct 8, 2025
UKCFOInvestmentBudget

99% of UK finance leaders surveyed have experienced payments-related cyber incidents in the past two years.

CorpayCybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend ·Oct 8, 2025
UKCFO

More than half (51%) of UK finance leaders are preparing a significant uplift in cyber investment next year.

CorpayCybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend ·Oct 8, 2025
UKCFOInvestmentBudget

42% of UK CFOs surveyed identified fraud detection and prevention as an area of their finance operations they would most like to improve through automation.

CorpayCybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend ·Oct 8, 2025
UKCFOFraud detectionFraud prevention

42% of surveyed UK CFOs identified ‘cybersecurity threats’ as the operational risk they were most concerned about over the next 12–24 months, making it the largest percentage of responses for this risk category.

CorpayCybersecurity Tops CFO’s Risk Agenda With 99% Reporting Incidents and 94% Planning to Increase Spend ·Oct 8, 2025
UKCFO