Adverse Media for Individuals (Negative News Screening)
Sanctions and PEP screening alone is not always enough to understand real-world risk. SafeData Adverse Media for Individuals helps you identify negative publicity and risk events connected to a person that may impact their reputational risk and compliance risk. It is designed for due diligence, onboarding, enhanced reviews, and ongoing risk assessments—especially when your policies require a broader view beyond watchlists.
This service detects public information linked to criminal, improper, or high-risk behavior, supporting a risk-based approach to compliance.
What the Adverse Media check looks for
SafeData scans news and public sources to surface potential risk signals such as:
- financial crime and related investigations
- fraud and scams
- corruption and bribery
- organized crime and serious criminal activity
- terrorism and terrorism financing references
- sanctions-related activity and compliance breaches
- other misconduct that may indicate elevated reputational risk
Results are thematically categorized to help your team triage findings quickly and decide whether escalation or Enhanced Due Diligence is needed.
Data sources and coverage
SafeData uses broad and continuously updated media coverage, including:
- International, regional, and local news outlets (multilingual coverage)
- Large-scale news datasets covering 230,000+ news sources worldwide
- Continuous analysis of 3.5+ million news articles per day, in near real time
- Publicly available information related to economic crime, fraud, corruption, terrorism, sanctions breaches, and regulatory non-compliance
- Ongoing enrichment and updates of sources (coverage is continuously evolving and not limited to a fixed, exhaustive list)
This combination helps ensure both global reach and local relevance – important for cross-border due diligence.
Output: relevant articles you can review
Adverse media screening is only useful if it’s actionable. SafeData returns a curated subset of relevant articles and sources so you can:
- review the original publications,
- understand context and recency,
- document your decision-making,
- support internal approvals or escalations.
How it works
- Enter the person’s name
- Select a start date to control the time range of coverage
- Run the search and review results (and previous requests)
When to use Adverse Media for Individuals
- onboarding higher-risk customers
- Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) triggers
- periodic reviews and ongoing monitoring
- investigations and internal escalations
- counterparties and individuals connected to businesses (directors, UBOs, signatories)
