i-Reference is a solution that works seamlessly with any talent acquisition team’s recruitment process in ensuring that there is an independent and impartial, quantifiable measure on trust of every candidate, through an in-depth and positive referencing at an earlier stage of the recruitment process. This is a set of processes which provides evidence of trust/ethics as well as suitability to the role and potential development needs/support in that position. This is a service which compliments and enhances any regulated company's requirement to evidence their decision with regards to the regulators 'Fit and Proper Persons' measures which, in the UK, the FCA will have regard to a person’s competence and capability as well as their honesty, integrity, reputation and financial soundness. This is not an HR ‘tick-box’ referencing process, but an in-depth set of interviews with those who the candidate has worked directly with in the past and can give an honest view of the candidate’s experience and trust, warts and all, so as to enable the client to hire with a more complete knowledge of the candidate and reduce the risk of making a hiring mistake.