Conducting background checks helps companies avoid dangerous, fraudulent, and reckless behavior from job candidates and employees. Background checks are a common part of the employee recruiting ...

The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry (NMLS), a mortgage licensing system owned and operated by state financial regulators, will begin processing federal criminal background checks for ...

As Uber and Lyft have grown, their rise has helped buoy another business: Checkr, a startup that runs background checks on gig economy workers. Ride-sharing helped its business take off, but the ...

Processing in which the program is not visibly interacting with the user. Earlier personal computers used operating systems that ran background tasks only when foreground tasks were idle, such as ...

Last year, the United States saw record numbers of gun sales, and it strained the FBI‘s background check process, meaning more background checks were left incomplete. If an FBI background check is ...