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 ...

The federal government’s ongoing efforts to hasten the processing of security clearances hit a speed bump this week, as an auditor ruled the Office of Personnel Management unfairly awarded a contract ...

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 ...

America’s gun background check system, designed to keep weapons out of the hands of people who might use them in crimes, has struggled to keep up with record firearms sales over the past year — even ...

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 ...