Adverse Media Screening
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Identify high-risk individuals and entities with real-time adverse media screening that supports AML compliance, reduces manual workloads, and strengthens ongoing risk management.
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Traditional Screening Misses Emerging Risk
Adverse media screening helps uncover financial crime and reputational risks that may not yet appear in sanctions lists, PEP databases, or crime records. But manual checks across fragmented sources are slow, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.
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Adverse Media Screening FAQs
SEON’s AML screening can be configured to check PEP lists, sanctions lists, watchlists, crime lists, and adverse media. Watchlists are used to flag potentially high-risk individuals or entities that may not meet the criteria for formal sanctions, while adverse media covers publicly available negative news or reports.
Yes. SEON lets teams create unlimited source profiles and control which data sources are enabled or disabled in each one. These profiles can then be matched with search profiles and fuzzy settings to support different workflows, customer segments, and risk scenarios.
Yes. SEON supports adverse media-specific settings including fuzziness, DOB filtering, country filtering, exact match, publication-date history filtering, and score thresholds. These controls help teams improve relevance and reduce unnecessary review work.
Yes. SEON supports automated ongoing monitoring across sanctions, watchlists, PEPs, and crime lists, with alerts when monitored data changes. Monitoring runs on a schedule and helps keep customer profiles up to date without additional manual effort.
Yes. SEON’s docs state that local AML data and adverse media checks must be explicitly requested in API calls, and API configurations can override account-wide settings for specific use cases.
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