Adverse Media Check
Stay ahead of hidden risks.
Move beyond sanctions screening with Optimum for Professional Services’s Adverse Media Check, powered by trusted global news sources, verified global media, and regulatory publications. The service helps organisations identify relevant negative news, financial crime indicators, regulatory concerns, and reputational risk signals. By bringing adverse media intelligence into the due diligence process, Optimum for Professional Services helps risk and compliance teams investigate potential concerns earlier, apply a more informed risk-based approach, and document decisions with greater clarity.
Media intelligence across languages
Screening from verified global media, continuous updates through live data feeds, coverage across 15+ languages, and access through a Web Platform and API. This supports cross-border due diligence where relevant information may be published in different countries, languages, formats, and source types.
Key capabilities
Optimum for Professional Services's Adverse Media Check combines global media coverage, continuous data updates, and configurable screening to help teams identify relevant risk signals quickly and reliably.
Real-time adverse media screening
Check for relevant adverse media signals during onboarding, enhanced due diligence, periodic reviews, investigations, transaction-related assessments, and event-driven reviews.
Trusted global news and regulatory sources
Screen against trusted global news sources, verified media, and regulatory publications to help teams access timely, relevant, and traceable information across jurisdictions.
Continuous live-feed updates
Use continuously updated live data feeds to support ongoing risk awareness and identify new developments that may require investigation, escalation, or a refreshed customer risk assessment.
Multilingual coverage
Support screening across more than 15 languages, helping organisations identify relevant media intelligence across international markets and cross-border relationships
Configurable, risk-based screening
Organise potential matches and monitoring events around the relevant entity. Grouped entity-based alerts can help reduce duplication, focus human review, and create a clearer record of screening activity.
Local and internal list controls
Where appropriate, combine external adverse media intelligence with organisation-specific blacklists, whitelists, and other local or parametric lists to support internal risk policies.
Entity-based alerts and ongoing awareness
Group relevant alerts around the entity being reviewed and use ongoing monitoring to identify new developments that may require investigation, escalation, or a refreshed customer risk assessment.
What the service may help identify.
Adverse Media Check may help surface reporting or regulatory publications associated with fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, terrorist financing, organised crime, sanctions evasion, serious financial misconduct, regulatory enforcement, environmental harm, human rights concerns, or other material reputational risks.
A media result is an intelligence signal, not a final determination. Each result should be reviewed in context, considering the identity of the subject, source, publication date, allegation, enforcement status, and relationship to the entity under review.
Connect adverse media to the wider workflow
Adverse Media Check can be used alongside customer screening, transaction screening, customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring, fraud monitoring, daily ongoing monitoring, case management, and regulatory reporting support.
This enables relevant media signals to be considered within the wider relationship and risk context rather than as an isolated search result.
Typical use cases.
Adverse Media Check can support customer and counterparty due diligence, enhanced due diligence, supplier and third-party reviews, merger and acquisition screening, investment decisions, onboarding, periodic reviews, transaction risk assessment, reputational risk management, and event-driven investigations.
This enables relevant media signals to be considered within the wider relationship and risk context rather than as an isolated search result.