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Checking on cybersecurity practices
A recent survey of corporate security executives by Accenture and HfS Research, Ltd stressed how vulnerable companies are to attempted or completed...
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Background screening of health workers can fail miserably
One would think background checks would be routine in hiring medical personnel making life-and-death decisions about ill people – but it turns out...
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Rules on ultimate beneficial ownership weigh heavily on bankers
As global banks and other financial firms face looming deadlines to tighten background screening on new and existing customers, some executives...
Persian Gulf companies increasingly turn to background screeners
Many HR offices in the Persian Gulf are ill-equipped to handle thorough background screenings, “creating growing demand in the region for third-party...
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A case that led the FBI to warn, “do your due diligence when thinking about investing…”
Some background checking might have unveiled a decade-long Ponzi scheme in California that defrauded almost 200 people and institutions. In 2014,...
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Bankers are pooling data in background-screening collectives
Banks and financial institutions worldwide, facing ever-stricter know-your-customer rules, are forming collective background-checking groups to pool...
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Anti-Bribery Due Diligence: Tougher anti-bribery due-diligence coming
International companies are gearing up for the publication in coming days of the final version of a new set of anti-corruption best practices...
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Here’s how 18% of Persian Gulf jobs are misstated
Background checks in 2015 and 2016 revealed that about 18% of all job applicants across eight countries made misstatements about their skills or...
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Pre-employment checkers must take care in reporting crimes
A California federal judge has given a green light to a class-action lawsuit against a background-check company for allegedly violating the Fair...
Employers Checking Social Media: Most Employers Check Social Media Before Hiring
Background checking is about going down paper trails a person has left behind. The trouble is that more and more of it isn’t on paper; it’s online....