Other Background Checks

What is an Adverse Financial Check?

The Experian Adverse Financial Check gives you the peace of mind that your candidates have no history of financial mismanagement.

When you request a pre-employment credit check, our system will quickly scour numerous public and private databases for any adverse financial warning signs. We check County Court Judgements (CCJs), bankruptcies, voluntary arrangements, decrees and administration orders. The Experian Adverse Financial Check also consults the candidate’s electoral roll registration to confirm their current address.

What is a Directorship Check?

An Experian Directorship Check consults our Directors Database to verify a candidate’s current and previously held directorships. Our Directorship Check will also detail any disqualifications on a candidate’s record. A disqualification might suggest that a candidate is either unsuitable to hold a directorship, or is outright barred from doing so.

What is a DVLA Check?

A DVLA Check will validate a candidate’s driving licence, and will also include all penalty points, impaired charges, speeding and other driving offences on their record.

A thorough DVLA Check is a safeguard for both your company and your clients against the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. This legislation means that, for the first time, businesses can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter where negligent hiring practices resulted in a gross breach of duty of care.

What is an FCA Check?

An FCA Check is required to screen and approve applicants before they are authorised to conduct certain types of business in the financial sector. These include the selling or advising on such investments as personal or stakeholder pensions, life assurance policies, shares, and collective investment schemes.

An FCA Check will confirm all current and previous controlled functions, all current and previous appointed representatives and any disciplinary details on a candidate’s record.

What is an Identity Check?

When you request an Experian Identity Check, we will rapidly compare your candidate’s details against millions of records held in both public and private databases. Our identity checking service draws from the electoral role, almost immediately delivering a score indicating our confidence in the candidate’s identity. We will also check their current address and, if necessary, up to two previous addresses.

What is a Media Check?

An Experian Media Check is designed to supplement an application. We search a market leading database for instances that may have brought the candidate to the public attention, helping you to have a complete and balanced a view of the candidate as possible.