Background Screening
Today’s hiring environment is complex — remote work, global teams, and rising fraud risks have made background checks more important than ever. To build a safe, trusted workforce, you need screening solutions that are fast, accurate, and globally compliant.
Vital4 empowers background screening providers with the data they need to make informed decisions — at scale and without delays. From sanctions, adverse media, PEP and SSN screening, our data and monitoring solutions integrate seamlessly into your workflow to help you screen faster and hire smarter.
Detect high-risk individuals and entities early — before they pose a threat. Our platform keeps you aligned with evolving threats, so growth never comes at the cost of compliance.
With 3,000 screening products covering 240 countries, we won’t leave any gaps in your international screening needs. Receive criminal records directly from government sources and access employment and education verifications, motor vehicle records, credit checks, and education, employment, and professional reference verifications.
Save time during international background screening and explore candidate results from our simplified dashboard. Generate clear record details on your clients’ potential employees and view status updates and alerts for all pending queries.
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Global watchlists are compiled by governments and international organizations to identify entities linked to crime, corruption, terrorism, money laundering, and various other forms of unethical behavior. Entities include individuals, corporations, or even countries. Even if they aren’t actively participating in criminal behavior, listed entities may be connected to suspicious activity.
Screen candidates against global watchlists and negative media coverage to flag high-risk individuals — critical for smarter hiring.
Vital4 Watchlists & SanctionsPolitically Exposed Persons are individuals connected to high-level roles in a government, either directly or indirectly through family members or personal and business relationships. PEPs are considered higher-risk individuals because their proximity to power offers more opportunities to engage in unethical or unlawful behavior, such as nepotism, money laundering, and embezzlement.
Build a trusted workforce by reducing reputational and financial risk while supporting compliance decisions.
Vital4 Politically Exposed PersonsAdverse media detection serves as an important early predictor for potential watchlist or sanctions listings, as media outlets can frequently detect risk more swiftly than government or international watchdogs.
Red-flag behavior linked to money laundering, financial fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking, risky finances, terrorism, and more can be better identified and predicted with adverse media screening.
Vital4 Adverse MediaSocial Security trace searches are performed with every background check to indicate the name and address history of an applicant. SSN trace also confirms whether the Social Security number is valid, matches the candidate’s name and address history, and gives insight into which jurisdictions should be searched.
SSN Trace is the only solution on the market that combines data from two-thirds of the major credit bureaus with the industry’s largest alternative header file. This information is used as an indicator of the potential risk a candidate could pose to an organization.
Vital4 TraceGlobal Background Screening plays a critical role in helping businesses find the right employees. Hiring unqualified or risky employees can increase turnover and compliance risk for clients and lower your productivity levels.
Without our comprehensive screening services that meet high-quality data expectations, your clients can face problems, such as incomplete coverage, missing data points, and excessive false positives that can jeopardize your business relationships.
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