Adverse Media Screening

How to run and document an adverse media search on a person or company: defining the subject, search strings, lookback, confirming matches, judging sources, recording the result, and the limits of automating Google searches.

Adverse media screening sources fall into three categories — open web, licensed news feeds, and structured AML intelligence. Each has different strengths, limitations, cost and coverage. This guide compares them and explains how mature programmes combine sources to balance signal quality, false-positive volume and cost.