Yes—Owlin screens and analyzes adverse media in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and more. Our AI models understand linguistic nuances, regional expressions, and contextual cues, ensuring nothing gets lost in translation.

This multilingual capability is essential for global businesses that manage third-party relationships across borders. Whether a critical news item breaks in Tokyo or Buenos Aires, Owlin catches it and delivers it to your dashboard with context, clarity, and confidence.

KYC processes are designed to verify identity and assess risk—but static data only goes so far. Adverse media screening (and monitoring) adds a dynamic, real-world layer by detecting new risks and shifts in reputation that affect whether a customer remains trustworthy. This way, adverse media screening:

• Validates risk assessments during onboarding
• Allows organizations to stay informed of new developments that might impact customer relationships
• Helps companies meet regulatory expectations for perpetual KYC (pKYC)

With Owlin, KYC becomes more than a checkbox. It evolves into a living, breathing process that adapts to the world in real-time.

Adverse media offers a broader view of an individual or entity’s risk profile than financial records alone. In AML checks, it helps identify ties to criminal organizations, ongoing investigations, sanctions, or unethical behavior that might not show up in traditional databases. By using adverse media insights, compliance teams can:

• Detect early signs of money laundering activity.
• Respond to red flags in real-time
• Avoid onboarding high-risk clients unknowingly

Owlin’s platform enhances AML checks by flagging suspicious activity as it emerges across jurisdictions and industries.

Owlin uses advanced AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to detect, analyze, and categorize risk-relevant news and media in real-time. Unlike basic keyword searches, our models understand context—flagging whether a company is linked to fraud, litigation, regulatory scrutiny, or other risk events.

By automating the process, Owlin eliminates the noise of irrelevant mentions and delivers focused, explainable insights to your team. Whether you’re onboarding a new customer or reviewing an existing partner, Owlin ensures you’re always a step ahead of emerging threats.

Owlin empowers compliance teams to answer the most important question: “Would I onboard or retain this company as a merchant, vendor, client, or counterparty today?” Our AI-powered solution continuously delivers context-rich insights from over three million sources in multiple languages. This helps you:

• Conduct deeper due diligence during onboarding
• Monitor business relationships with real-time risk alerts
• Save time by reducing manual review work
• Comply with pKYC, AML, and third-party risk requirements

Owlin fits seamlessly into your existing workflows and enhances the signal-to-noise ratio by surfacing what truly matters.

Adverse media screening is essential to modern compliance frameworks because it highlights the risks that static documents like financial records alone can’t reveal—fraud allegations, regulatory breaches, or links to criminal activity.

Whether onboarding a new client or managing existing third-party relationships, timely insights from adverse media sources can make the difference between proactive protection and reactive damage control. Moreover, with regulatory expectations rising, screening for adverse media isn’t just a best practice—it’s a necessity.

Adverse media screening is the process of scanning news sources to detect early warning signals about potential partners, clients, vendors, or counterparties. It goes beyond the static data of traditional due diligence, tapping into real-time narratives that reveal reputational red flags—from fraud and corruption to sanctions and criminal activity.