Adverse Media Screening

Screen global media to identify risk associated with individuals and entities. Protect your organization and uncover clients’ or suppliers’ involvement in financial and other types of crime.

Real-Time Global Search

Identify anyone’s global risk with a single search

Global coverage of reputable media sources providing only relevant results.

  • Global adverse media coverage, including: arms trafficking, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, drug trafficking, extortion, forgery, fraud, human trafficking, insider trading, money laundering, organized crime, sanctions violations, securities fraud, tax evasion, terrorism financing, war crimes and more.

  • Screen up to date adverse media with real-time search executed on demand.

  • Adverse media relevance determined by proximity of subjects to query and the severity of the adverse media content. Screening additionally differentiates perpetrators from victims.

  • Each adverse media screen crawls over 100 billion web pages across news media, government publications, social media and blogs. Duplicate results are consolidated to show the most reputable and reliable source.

  • Screen adverse media across Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and more.

  • Screen adverse media alongside sanctions, PEPs, export controls and other watchlists based on customer risk profiles.

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Global Adverse Media Screening Requirements

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines recommend adverse media screening during the customer onboarding process.

Regulatory bodies in the EU, UK, US, Singapore, and elsewhere highlight adverse media screening as a critical component of a risk-based approach to know your customer (KYC) onboarding and anti-money laundering (AML).

So, we wrote this guide to show your team everything you’ll need to cover during the buying process. Learn to select the right screening system to reduce false positives and meet your CFT/AML compliance needs.

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