Adverse Media Screening
How controlled adverse media screening supports customer and counterparty investigations during private-preview deployments.
Coverage beyond lists
Find reputational and financial-crime signals in news coverage before a formal designation exists.
Human-reviewed findings
Every finding is advisory and closed out with a recorded decision, reviewer, and rationale.
Ongoing monitoring
Enrol high-risk subjects so new coverage is caught automatically, without waiting for the next manual refresh.
What adverse media screening covers
Watchlists tell you whether someone has already been designated as a risk by a sanctions authority or similar body. Adverse media screening covers a different gap: it looks at published news and media coverage for signals that a person or business is connected to fraud, corruption, financial crime, or other reputational risk, even before any formal designation exists.
In approved private-preview deployments, a screening run can compare a customer or counterparty against configured, governed sources and return relevant coverage with enough context for a human to review.
Typical uses
- screen a new customer or business during onboarding review
- screen a counterparty on a high-value or high-risk transaction
- refresh screening periodically for customers who stay active over time
- enrol a specific high-risk subject in ongoing monitoring so new coverage is caught as it is published
Findings are advisory, not automatic
A finding from adverse media screening is evidence for a person to review. It never changes a transaction decision by itself, and it never closes itself. An analyst looks at the finding, the underlying coverage, and the context, then records a disposition.
What a finding carries
- the subject the finding relates to
- a severity level to help prioritize review
- a summary of the coverage found
- a status such as open, in review, dispositioned, suppressed, or closed
- links back to the case it supports, when one exists
Adverse media is enabled only for approved deployments with configured sources and operating controls. Findings are advisory evidence and never decide a transaction on their own.
Disposition and audit trail
Every finding is closed out with a recorded decision, not just dismissed. The person who reviewed it, their decision, and their reasoning are all preserved, so the outcome can be explained later during an audit or regulatory inquiry.
- the reviewer records a decision and a rationale
- the evidence in place at the time of the decision is preserved, even if the underlying source changes later
- the finding status updates to reflect the recorded decision
Ongoing monitoring
Where ongoing monitoring is enabled for an approved deployment, a subject can be enrolled so new coverage is collected through the configured source workflow instead of waiting for a manual refresh.
Monitoring lifecycle
- enrol a subject in ongoing monitoring
- pause monitoring when it is temporarily not needed
- resume monitoring when attention is needed again
- new findings from monitoring appear the same way as findings from a manual screening run
Useful API areas
Private-preview API access is provided only as part of an approved implementation. The final routes, source coverage, limits, and operating model are confirmed during onboarding.