Pretty Standard for Financial Industry (Score 2, Informative)

I wor`k in the financial industry, and fingerprinting is pretty common. If you deal with customers, legally you have to pass the NASD / NYSE Series 6 or Series 7, and the FBI has to run a background check called a U4. Then you have to get Livescan fingerprinted. So fingerprinting is not just part of a specific firms process, but part of the law.