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 information, it’s essential that you vet them. Your financial facility safeguards access to cash, accounts, and sensitive documents of all kinds. It’s important to verify that new hires have no criminal background, history of theft, or other problematic behaviors before onboarding them. Even things like theft of company time may come up in professional reference checks, so be sure that your background investigation includes them.
