Trusted Financial and Banking Background Checks

Smarter, faster background screening helping you meet complex regulatory and compliance demands.

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How We Can Help You with a Culture of Trust and Accountability

Employees in financial and banking services are on the front lines daily, interacting with customers, partners, and sensitive data. Our employment background checks for financial services support a workplace culture built on integrity, helping you protect your people, brand, and community from
Day One.

Whether you’re looking for criminal record searches, fingerprinting, or digital identity, our financial services background checks are built with compliance in mind.

First Advantage has created a scalable service for the financial industry that screens 90% of US background checks in less than one day, with 70% of criminal checks coming back within an hour.*

Our team provides subject matter expertise, regulatory consultative guidance, and strong partnerships with HCMs. This helps your hiring strategy grow in sync with your business goals.

Our subject matter experts and compliance resources provide you with exclusive insights, thought leadership, and regulatory updates.

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Scale with Speed and Confidence

From credit checks and executive investigations to liens, judgments, and criminal history searches, our powerful combination of advanced technology and a robust fulfillment engine create a faster, more consistent candidate experience, even during hiring surges or while managing unique global workforce needs.

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Tailored Screening for Financial and Banking Services

Regardless of your industry, your global Financial Services team is uniquely positioned to provide best practice observations for background screening so that your team can focus on attracting and retaining top talent.

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As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, First Advantage is primed to help financial companies and banking institutions fill their need for a streamlined, mobile-first onboarding process.

In working with some of the world’s largest organizations in this space, we have built an experienced team to help you create robust pre-to-post hire background screening programs that meet your requirements and your clients’.

Your customers rely on your services to have peace of mind. We can help with your culture of trust with background screening solutions designed to help you meet your compliance obligations and staff your company with confidence.

SERVICES TAILORED TO FINANCE COMPANIES

Financial Services Background Checks You Can Rely on

Your people should reflect your organization’s values from the start. From criminal searches to credit checks, our tailored screening programs help you reinforce those values while managing risk, improving efficiency, and helping to improve compliance throughout the employee lifecycle.

Our sophisticated background screening tools allow us to uncover criminal records information and deliver results quickly.

Identity verification processed with our digital identity solutions that combine liveness detection, facial recognition, and biometric matching with key data points.

First Advantage delivers fast, detailed verification of your candidates’ education, job history, and other credentials so you can onboard them with confidence.

Obtain a detailed view of your future leaders’ financial backgrounds using civil judgement, liens searches, and credit background checks for financial roles.

Monitor automatically for new records at scheduled intervals with our post-hire monitoring solutions.

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Why First Advantage? 

Our advanced fulfillment systems can accelerate the turnaround times of your background criminal record checks. Approximately 90% of our US criminal searches utilize intelligent automation to speed up the entire employment criminal background check process – from checking candidate data against court records to applying your adjudication matrix1.

“First Advantage has been a long-term partner contributing to our continual efforts to safeguard and minimize threats to our external clients, our workforce, and our brand. When we noticed that fraudulent applicants were arising, First Advantage recommended the Digital Identity product. Upon investigation we found that this is a swift, easy to implement program that provides the peace of mind we had been seeking. It’s worked well integrating with our existing systems, an easy, cost effective, non-intrusive solution for our potential hires.”

Jeff Ellis
Jeff Ellis
Senior Leader at AT&T
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Frequently Asked Questions

Background checks in the financial industry typically include criminal history checks, employment and education verifications, drug screening, fingerprinting, and, for C-suite executives, due diligence investigations. However, packages can be customized based on your specific needs, including company size, qualifications requirements, and the risk level associated with each position.

Turnaround times are based on the services ordered. First Advantage completes 90% of US criminal searches within one day.1

Costs will vary based on the services included, volume of requests, and other factors.

First Advantage provides general guidance and compliance updates to help you keep up with regulatory changes. For specific advice tailored to your company, speak with your legal counsel.

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Whether you want to rethink your employment background check program or need enhanced criminal background checks for more informed hiring, we can help.

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Sources | 1 First Advantage, as of 12/31/2024

 

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