Adverse media: Regulations and recommendations Running adverse media screening isn’t just a question of protecting your company from reputational damage, or building a helpful image of a client’s risk profile: it’s also a regulatory requirement of financial authorities around the world. […]
When conducting customer due diligence (CDD), financial institutions (FIs) must assess prospective customers against a variety of risk factors. One of these is adverse media, or negative news: information from media sources indicating that a customer may represent a money […]
Adverse media, sometimes called negative news, refers to information from news and other media sources that suggest an individual or entity may represent a financial crime risk. Because of the insights adverse media can provide, screening for it forms an […]
