Banking & Finance Background Checks – Page 3
Protecting Customer Information: a Bank’s Guide
How can a bank protect customer information? An excellent way to ensure the security of financial, proprietary, and customer information is to conduct thorough background checks on all potential hires and current employees. It’s important to verify that new hires have...
Credit Report Usage in Background Investigations
Can you use a credit report in a background investigation? It is possible to use credit reports in background investigations. According to a study by the Society for Human Resources Management, 47% of businesses use credit reporting in their background checks for at...
How Can a Bank Protect Customer Information?
How can a bank protect customer information? An excellent way to ensure the security of financial, proprietary, and customer information is to conduct thorough background checks on all potential hires and current employees. It’s important to verify that new...
Should the Financial Services Industry Conduct Background Checks?
Should the financial services industry conduct background checks? Conducting a background investigation on anyone considered for hire at your financial services industry company is beyond critical. If your employees will have access to customer or proprietary...
Should Banks Conduct Background Checks?
Should banks conduct background checks? For a number of reasons, banks should conduct background checks on all prospective hires. One such reason is to protect customer information. After all, the reputation of your company is built upon the security of your...
Credit Report Bill and Background Check Discrimination: How it Could Impact You
Credit Report Bill and Background Check Discrimination: How it Could Impact You Credit reports have been used as one aspect of thorough pre-employment background investigations...
5 Reasons Banking and Finance Companies Need Background Checks
5 Reasons Banking and Finance Companies Need Background Checks Pre-employment background investigations are important in all industries. In the banking and finance industries they are particularly critical, however. Employees of financial institutions have access to a...
The Use of Credit Reports in the Hiring Process
Download White Paper: 10 Things You Should Know to Limit Liability When it Comes to the Use of Credit Reports in the Hiring Process Here's a sneak peak! One of the most problematic, and at times the most useful consumer reports acquired during the hiring/promotion...
Download Whitepaper: July 1 FINRA Background Check Rule Implementation
Mario Pecoraro, CEO of Alliance Risk Group, has just issued a new whitepaper which answers the question, "What searches should be conducted to be compliant with the new FINRA background check rule effective July 1, 2015?" Download the .pdf here. Here is an...
FINRA Report: Fraud Causes Extreme Emotional Distress on Victims
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has released a study by the FINRA Foundation, stating that the effects of fraud linger well after the scam is over. Victims experience severe stress, anxiety, difficulty sleeping and depression. The FINRA...