Adverse Media for Businesses (Negative News Screening)
Sanctions screening is only one part of business risk. To make confident onboarding and monitoring decisions, you also need visibility into what reputable sources are reporting about a company. SafeData Adverse Media for Businesses is a negative news screening service designed to support KYB, third-party due diligence, and risk-based compliance by identifying public information that may indicate reputational risk or compliance risk for a legal entity.
This service is especially useful when onboarding or reviewing corporate clients, merchants, suppliers, partners, vendors, service providers, and counterparties—including cross-border relationships where local news coverage may be critical.
What negative news screening helps you detect
SafeData scans global and local media to surface potential risk signals linked to a company, including:
- Regulatory enforcement and compliance breaches
- Fraud allegations, scams, and misrepresentation
- Corruption and bribery cases
- Financial crime narratives (e.g., money laundering exposure)
- Sanctions-related activity (evasion, circumvention narratives, violations)
- Organized crime and serious criminal references
- Insolvency-related coverage and distress indicators (where reported)
- Other misconduct that may raise reputational or operational concerns
Findings are thematically categorized (e.g., financial crime, fraud, corruption, sanctions-related activity, organized crime, regulatory non-compliance) to help compliance teams triage faster and apply the right level of due diligence.
Data sources and coverage
SafeData Adverse Media for Businesses is built for broad coverage and local relevance:
- International, regional, and local news outlets with multilingual coverage
- Large-scale news datasets covering 230,000+ media sources worldwide
- Continuous processing 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 evolves continuously and is not limited to a fixed list)
This combination helps detect risk signals that may appear in local language sources long before they reach global headlines.
Output: review-ready articles and sources
SafeData does not just generate a score—you receive a curated subset of relevant articles and sources for the company you search, so you can:
- review the original publication for context and credibility,
- assess recency, severity, and relevance to your risk policy,
- document decisions for internal approvals or escalations,
- support audit-ready KYB and third-party due diligence files.
Reports and documentation
Each search can be documented as a negative news / adverse media output suitable for compliance review. Depending on your workflow, you can retain:
- the searched entity name and time range,
- categorized results and source links,
- selected articles used as evidence,
- internal notes and conclusions for audit purposes.
This makes it easier to demonstrate a consistent, risk-based approach to KYB and vendor/customer due diligence.
How it works
- Enter the company name
- Select a start date to define the time range
- Run the search and review results
- Access your history under Previous requests
When to use Adverse Media for Businesses
- KYB onboarding for corporate clients and merchants
- Third-party risk management for suppliers, vendors, and partners
- Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) triggers
- Periodic reviews / ongoing monitoring
- Investigations, remediation, and internal escalations
Why SafeData
- Broad, multilingual coverage across 230,000+ sources
- Near real-time scanning of millions of articles daily
- Categorized findings to speed up triage and decisioning
- Evidence-driven output aligned with KYB and third-party due diligence needs
Clear workflow with searchable request history
