What is 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.

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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Creating peace of mind for more than 1000 companies worldwide

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

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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