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Adverse Media
Check by KYCAID
Monitor negative news about people and companies — in real time, in any language. KYCAID scores every hit for relevance and sentiment, reducing noise and surfacing true risks for faster AML decisions.
Challenges businesses face with adverse media screening
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Early risk detection
Identify links to crime, money laundering, or terror financing on day one. Onboarding and continuous screening prevent reputational and financial harm before it happens.
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Stay compliant
Regulators expect more than basic due diligence. A robust adverse media program demonstrates compliance, strengthens AML/KYC programs, and reduces risk of fines.
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Protect your reputation
Negative news, even if indirect, can quickly damage trust. Adverse media screening helps you avoid risky relationships and protect your credibility.
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Cut through the noise
Sifting through news to find risk-relevant information can be time-consuming and expensive. Smart filtering helps you see what matters.
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Accurate name matching
Deal with spelling variations, transliterations, and common names across different languages with accuracy and confidence for clear results.
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Continuous monitoring
Risks don’t stop after onboarding. Continuous screening allows you to stay on top of new risks early and keeps your compliance programs effective.
CNN, CNBC, FOXNEWS, ECONOMIST, TIME, BBC NEWS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, FINANCIAL TIMES, POLITICO, CNN, CNBC, FOXNEWS, ECONOMIST, TIME, BBC NEWS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, FINANCIAL TIMES, POLITICO,
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63%
value from reputation
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90%
true positives detected
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100
FTEs worth of labor freed
Why Choose KYCAID?
Complete Workflow
KYCAID streamlines your compliance checks with ID verification and Automated Adverse Media Checks all in one place. Add KYCAID to your AML screening process to pull information from identity documents and automatically cross-check it against global media and watchlists in real time.
Context is Key
We use more than keyword matching to analyze articles. Every piece of media is scored for both sentiment and relevance so you can instantly see if it’s really about your subject — and how serious it is.
Ongoing Coverage
Stay on top of things with real-time and continuous screening, not just one-time checks.
Pay As You Go
Keep your costs down with our easy pay-per-check pricing.
How does it work?
1 step
Data retrieval from the document, Manual search request in the Dashboard, or API Request.
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Required and Optional keywords settings.
3 step
Get your comprehensive report.
Effortless KYC compliance
with advanced software solutions
🕵️♂️ Accurate results with smart matching
We use phonetic and fuzzy logic to reduce false negatives and identify near matches. Our API ensures you find what matters even when names are transliterated or misspelled.
🧩 Structured data from unstructured news
KYCAID converts unstructured media articles into structured intelligence through natural language processing. Automatically extract key topics, entities, and themes from dense text data.
📊 Easy-to-interpret risk indicators
Each result comes with a sentiment score and a relevance indicator, so your compliance team can quickly determine the severity of results with no manual parsing or interpretation needed.
🗂️ All-in-One Reporting
Our system aggregates mentions from multiple sources into a single, clean report, so you get the full picture without toggling between tabs.
Make Adverse Media Screening Work Smarter
Choose KYCAID to simplify compliance and optimize AML costs with a solution designed around your needs:
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Streamlined compliance to reduce complexity and expenses - Flexible tools and pricing tailored to your business model
- Customizable verification flows for complete control
- 24/7 expert support with quick response times and ongoing guidance
FAQ
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What is adverse media?
The definition is publicly available information (news articles, blog posts, reports, etc.) that associates a person or entity with suspicious or potentially illegal activity. This can include mentions of fraud, corruption, money laundering, terrorism, criminal activity, or other risk indicators.
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What is an adverse media check?
The definition is a screening process that searches for negative news about individuals or companies in order to identify reputational and compliance risks. It is a part of customer due diligence (CDD) process that may identify risks not found on official watchlists.
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What does the Relevance score show?
The definition is a score that indicates how well a media article matches the keywords and context of your search query. Scores closer to 1.0 indicate content more relevant to the person or entity being screened and may suggest a higher potential risk, while lower scores indicate weaker or more indirect matches.
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What is adverse information in AML?
The definition is any credible media or data that associates a person or organization with illegal or unethical activity. In Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs, such information can be used to support risk assessments and make decisions about onboarding, monitoring, or escalation.