Whether you are a financial broker, a broker-dealer, a candidate hoping to join the world of finance, or a firm dealing with all the above, you’ve likely heard of the Financial Industry Regulatory Agency (FINRA). FINRA serves as a primary source of industry compliance and ethical standards and helps ensure that people in the industry are vetted, qualified, and licensed. FINRA’s process includes a fingerprint-based background check process, for which they partner with several vendors to provide fingerprinting services. This year, SureID became one of those vendors! Why FINRA? Simply put, we believe in what FINRA is doing. This not-for-profit... read more →

If you work in an industry or company familiar with SWFT, then welcome - this post is for you! As HR professionals, FSOs (that's Facility Security Officers for those new to the acronym), or people managers, you collectively help shepherd around 1.2 million people through the security clearance process every year. We want to help! We recently partnered with Inquiries Screening, an industry leader that helps companies work through the Secure Web Fingerprint Transmission (SWFT) process. Like us, they’re an FBI Channeler. And like us, they manage fingerprints. Here’s the neat thing, though: they handle the entire back end process for... read more →