Screening
Adverse Media Screening
Adverse Media Screening also called negative news screening, is the process of searching news, regulatory, and other public sources for negative information about a customer that may indicate financial-crime risk.
Adverse media screening surfaces risk signals — fraud allegations, regulatory actions, criminal investigations, or links to money laundering — that may not yet appear on any sanctions or PEP list. It is a key input to Customer Due Diligence and to ongoing monitoring.
Structured adverse media tools categorise findings by risk type and relevance across many languages and sources, which is essential for separating genuine red flags from unrelated coverage of similarly named people.
Key points
- Detects risk before it reaches official watchlists
- Categorises findings by risk type and relevance
- Spans tens of thousands of sources and many languages
- Feeds CDD, EDD, and ongoing monitoring decisions
How One Constellation helps
Structured negative-news screening across 60K+ sources and 150+ languages, filtered to the findings that actually matter.
Explore Adverse Media ScreeningFrequently asked
Is adverse media screening mandatory?+
While not always named explicitly in law, regulators expect adverse media checks as part of a risk-based CDD programme, particularly for higher-risk customers and during Enhanced Due Diligence.
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