Tag: Adverse media screening

Blackdot Solutions, a specialist in intelligence and investigations software, has joined forces with Opoint, a worldwide supplier of media intelligence and news data, to...

Sanctions screening is the practice of checking customers, companies and transactions against official sanctions lists to detect parties barred or restricted from financial activity....

Financial institutions have access to increasingly sophisticated sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) screening tools, but these checks cannot capture every development that could...

GDELT has become the default reference point for anyone exploring global news data, and its scale is hard to ignore. Free, vast and frequently...

Adverse media screening has moved from a supporting element of enhanced due diligence to a central compliance control, driven by a wave of regulatory...

Adverse media screening is treated by most financial institutions as a box-ticking obligation rather than a genuine line of defence, and that mindset is...

Enhanced due diligence (EDD) becomes necessary the moment a customer or transaction carries more risk than standard checks can capture. According to Opoint, rather than...

Compliance teams often treat sanctions screening, PEP screening and adverse media screening as interchangeable checkboxes. They are not. Each targets a different category of risk,...

CDD is the standard set of checks a regulated firm carries out on every customer, designed to verify identity and gauge the level of...

New research from Vivox has revealed how TELF AG, a global commodities trader, transformed its adverse media screening, cutting review times by up to...