When a large book of business is being transferred client by client, everyone is under the gun. It's easy for the 30 days allowed after U-4 filing to pass by unnoticed. If anything delays FINRA getting the prints, cash flow is interrupted.
There is even more risk, recognized in FINRA (NASD) Notice to Members 5-39. It warns about imposter fraud when sending recruits "out" to police stations or to untrained service center attendants for fingerprinting. The notice implies it it occurs it's YOUR FAULT. How can you keep fingerprinting in-house, while recruiting reps in distant states?
National Fingerprint has the next best thing to walking the prints right up to FINRA's front door: Recruiters take prints at the interview, or compliance officers send the NFp Concierge out to the experienced producer's office. Either way, you know it's done right, done well, and done now..