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Foreign visitors’ online activities get screened
The Department of Homeland Security has added questions to the official forms given to some U.S.-bound foreign visitors asking about their “online...
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Background checkers: Pay close attention to middle names
Background screeners hired to do a criminal check on a job applicant named “David Smith” need to make a reasonable effort before reporting to the...
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Ban-the-box laws on background screening can backfire for minorities
Two academic studies raise serious questions about the advisability of well-intended “ban-the-box” laws, which bar employers from asking job...
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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...