Company: TFC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000092230-25-000020
Chunk: 93

Company: TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 93
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 outpace and outmaneuver the Truist control environment and monitoring activities impacting clients, teammates, and stakeholders. Fraud attacks in the banking sector have surged in recent years, driven by increasingly sophisticated and rapid techniques. Many bad actors, often linked to large criminal organizations, share strategies to execute schemes, such as debit and credit card fraud, peer-to-peer payment fraud, counterfeit checks, social engineering, ATM skimming, and phishing, and recent advances in artificial intelligence may make it more difficult to detect fraud. Fraudulent schemes exploit products like real-time payments, ACH, and wire transfers to steal funds. Fraudsters impersonate legitimate clients using stolen identities, employ other individuals to interact with Truist, or create fraudulent identities. In some cases, fraud is even committed by existing clients. A failure to detect, prevent, and address fraud could result in financial loss to the Company or its clients, loss of confidence in the Company’s security measures, client dissatisfaction, litigation exposure, regulatory investigations, fines, penalties or intervention, reimbursement, or other compensatory costs (including the costs of credit monitoring services), additional compliance costs, and harm to the Company’s reputation, all of which could adversely affect the Company.

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Natural disasters, pandemics, and other catastrophic events could adversely impact us.

The occurrence of, or increased severity and frequency of, natural disasters, extreme weather events, health crises, disease outbreaks or pandemics, or other catastrophic events, as well as government actions or other restrictions in connection with such events, could adversely affect the Company’s financial condition or results of operations. Truist has significant operations and clients along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts as well as other regions of the U.S., which could be adversely impacted by hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, tornadoes, and other severe weather in those areas. Rising insurance costs as well as decreasing insurance provider options resulting from natural disasters, extreme weather events, and other catastrophic events could cause supply chain issues, population migration, or the weakening of economic conditions in certain regions. In addition, natural and other types of disasters, including as a result of climate change, could disrupt the Company’s operations or the ability or willingness of the Company’s clients to access the financial services offered by Truist, and could adversely impact Company borrowers’ ability to timely repay their loans and the value of any collateral held. These events could reduce the Company’s earnings and cause volatility in the Company’s financial results for any fiscal quarter or year and have an adverse effect on