What is adverse media screening?
Adverse media screening looks for credible negative information that may be relevant to a customer's financial-crime risk.
Adverse media
Bring adverse media into the customer risk picture.
Review relevant negative-news indicators alongside the rest of the customer compliance record and document your disposition.
Built for practical AML compliance
Risk-focused review
Customer-level evidence
Documented dispositions
Connected compliance workflow
Who it is for
For compliance teams performing risk-based due diligence that need a consistent way to evaluate and document relevant adverse information.
Frequently asked questions
Does negative news automatically disqualify a customer?
No. Relevance, credibility, identity matching and the business's risk-based policies should be considered.
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