Adverse Media

Adverse media can reveal critical risks about companies long before official records, allowing you to proactively identify red flags, protect your business, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Adverse media: crucial risk insights throughout the business relationship

Adverse media, also known as negative news, is critical to customer due diligence (CDD). It involves scanning official and unofficial news sources and other publicly available data to identify potential risks linked to businesses before they impact your organization. After a vendor is onboarded, adverse media can also play a role in enhanced due diligence, perpetual KYC, or third-party risk monitoring.

Owlin offers automated adverse media screening and adverse media monitoring, offering you peace of mind. Want to know more about our offering or want to schedule a free trial? Feel free to reach out! Our team would love to meet you and showcase Owlin’s capabilities.

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Common adverse media challenges

Screening and monitoring adverse media comes with several challenges, particularly for compliance teams in regulated industries:

  • Information Overload – Teams often deal with many alerts, requiring manual review.
  • False Positives & Irrelevant Alerts – Without precise filtering, organizations waste time sorting through noise instead of focusing on genuine risks.
  • Fake News & Misinformation – In today’s digital landscape, distinguishing between credible news and unreliable sources is more complex than ever.
  • Data Fragmentation – Risk signals are scattered across multiple sources, languages, and formats, making comprehensive screening complex and time-consuming.

These challenges require organizations to take a structured, technology-driven approach (leveraging AI) to adverse media monitoring.

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Owlin: best-in-class adverse media

Owlin has been recognized as a Category Leader in the Adverse Media Quadrant by Chartis Research, a prestigious honor that highlights the commitment of the company to delivering cutting-edge solutions for third-party risk management. Moreover, this recognition is a testament to Owlin’s relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation in the field of adverse media monitoring.

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Adverse Media: A Vital Risk Signal

What if you could spot reputational risks before they appear in public sources? Or detect operational issues at a supplier on the other side of the world? Adverse media, also known as negative news, is often the first public indication of a serious issue at a third party.

At Owlin, we monitor millions of trusted and emerging sources in multiple languages, giving you global coverage with local insight into your portfolio. Our technology continuously scans for risk, 24/7. No batch updates. No delays. Just real-time awareness. We cut through the noise. With smart filtering and explainable risk scores, Owlin drastically reduces false positives, allowing your team to focus on what matters.

From onboarding to continuous monitoring, Owlin integrates seamlessly into your workflows, delivering risk insights where you need them. Recognized by Chartis Research as a Category Leader, Owlin is redefining how businesses detect risk. Adverse media can’t wait. Let Owlin turn noise into actionable insights.

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Owlin helps businesses stay informed with real-time adverse media insights.

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Screen and monitor third parties for adverse media
instantly and effortlessly

Owlin’s adverse media tools for adverse media screening and monitoring leverage AI (NLP) and LLMs (Large Language Models) to help you sort through significant amounts of information and quickly make sense of it. This allows you and your organization to focus on the most critical events and avoid wasting time on things that won’t impact your organization.

Adverse media screening

Effortlessly screen third parties for adverse media in a single click:

  • AI-driven risk detection
  • Insights from global news sources
  • Historical adverse media data
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Adverse media monitoring

Round-the-clock adverse media monitoring that keeps you ahead of risk:

  • Actionable, real-time alerts
  • Automated tracking to reduce manual effort
  • Easy team collaboration for faster decision-making
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Frequently asked questions about adverse media

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Don’t just take our word for it

Venminder
Venminder
Monitoring vendors on a continual basis to identify and address any issues before they become larger problems is critical. Our partnership with Owlin delivers valuable adverse media risk intelligence to our customers. They use this data to determine if their vendors are putting their organization’s reputation at risk and empower them to make better risk-based decisions.
James Hyde | Former CEO of Venminder
Stravito
Stravito
Our partnership with Owlin will help to enhance the competitive intelligence available in the Stravito platform and make it easier for users to access it quickly. This partnership is also a part of our commitment to help our customers stay resilient, even in uncertain times, and to get the most value from their market and competitive insights.
Thor Olof Philogène | CEO and Founder of Stravito
Trust Alliance
Trust Alliance
Owlin’s expertise in providing real-time news and insights adds value to our clients in onboarding and monitoring third parties. Therefore, the partnership adds an extra dimension to our existing offering.
Dave van Gulik | Director at Trust Alliance
Chartis Research
Owlin’s category leader position in our quadrant reflects several factors – notably its ability to handle a vast number of sources, with a strong focus on unstructured data. Moreover, it delivers these capabilities with high accuracy, making effective use of AI and GenAI, with flexible deployment and packaging to service a broad range of markets.
Nick Vitchev | Research Director at Chartis
Adyen
Recently, we had a retailer which had raised some questions. At some point, Owlin picked up articles showing that the retailer in question was going into administration or restructuring. This is often a bad sign for us because Adyen could become liable for the risk when an administrator takes over, or there is new ownership.
Jesse Koreman | Senior Financial Risk Analyst at Adyen
Fitch Solutions
The ability to filter news sentiment at the portfolio level is “a godsend” because their current system of Google alerts was arduous and overwhelming.
A bank's Head of Risk Management

Owlin insights

At Owlin, we specialize in screening and monitoring adverse media, helping businesses stay ahead of emerging risks. Discover our latest blogs in which we explore the role of adverse media as a key source of risk insights, offering expert perspectives and real-world examples.

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Discover how our AI-driven tools for adverse media screening and monitoring can help you detect risk and stay compliant. Book a demo today to discover how we can help you mitigate risk. 

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