Fit and Proper Check
The Fit and Proper check verifies a person’s name surname and ID number against the FSB debarment register.
A representative of a financial service provider who no longer meets the fit and proper requirements must be debarred by an FSP and may no longer work in a financial service provide role.
The FSB has maintained its debarment database since 1 November 2008
FAIS Comprehensive Check
Struggling to understand FAIS compliance within your organisation? Lexis RefCheck has recently launched our new and improved FAIS Comprehensive Check, allowing you to draw conclusions on a candidate's current FAIS compliance status with the Financial Services Board.
The FAIS Comprehensive check provides the following information on your candidate:
- Current Status at FSB including if the candidate has been debarred
- Date of First Appointment (DOFA) as a key individual or representative
- Key Individual Status
- Examinations Passed (Regulatory Examinations)
- Qualifications (Tertiary)
- Currently Tied FSP
- Previously Tied FSP
- Associated Products
- Product type and category
- First date of advice
- Intermediary date
- Working under supervision Y/N with dates
The FAIS Comprehensive check is a real-time search and is date and time stamped for all your future auditing correspondence with the Financial Services Board.
Consumer Goods Council
It is common for candidate employees to omit portions of their work history, in an attempt to disguise those episodes that ended dishonourably. This lack of information results in employment decisions that are based on part-truths. After extensive research, which included Senior Counsel's opinion, the Consumer Goods Council have developed a central register of employment records, in order for participating employers to access accurate work histories (within the FMCG Industry only) of candidates. They currently have in excess of over 148 000 names on this database.
Lexis RefCheck provides a quick an easy search that allows you to screen for your candidates previous work history as registered on the CGC database.
Professional Association Membership
LexisNexis verifies both South African and Global Professional Association Membership such as SAICA.