How a Global Investment Firm Strengthened Third-Party Screening & Monitoring

The client

A leading U.S.-based global investment firm managing a broad alternatives portfolio across private equity and other strategies. With a global network of vendors, service providers, advisors, and portfolio-related third parties, the firm places strong emphasis on structured third-party risk governance to protect investment value and meet regulatory expectations.

The challenge

As the firm expanded its investment activities, its third-party ecosystem grew increasingly complex. Risk and compliance teams needed a scalable way to strengthen both, third-party screening during onboarding and continuous monitoring after engagement. 

Before implementing Owlin, teams relied heavily on manual searches and point-in-time intelligence tools to assess vendor and counterparty risk. This created several challenges:

• Time-consuming adverse media checks during onboarding and/or investment research
• Inconsistent screening processes across regions and teams
• High volumes of duplicate or low-value news results
• Limited ability to detect emerging regulatory or reputational risks in real time
• No structured way to integrate monitoring outputs into internal systems
• Fragmented oversight across TPRM, portfolio, and macro risk teams

The firm required a solution that could automate adverse media screening, continuously monitor third parties globally, and integrate directly into internal platforms via API, ensuring intelligence surfaced within existing investment, compliance and risk workflows.

The solution

The firm implemented Owlin as an AI-driven intelligence layer embedded within its technology framework.

Owlin delivers:

• Automated adverse media screening across global news and regulatory sources
• Continuous monitoring of vendors, service providers, and investment-related third parties
• AI-driven prioritization that surfaces material regulatory, reputational, and strategic developments
• Concise, contextual alerts explaining why developments matter
• De-duplicated, structured intelligence delivered via dashboard and API

By embedding Owlin into existing workflows, the firm receives real-time, prioritized signals that support faster and more informed investment and risk decisions.

The impact

By leveraging Owlin, the firm strengthened its overall governance across the full vendor and investment lifecycle.

Key outcomes include:

• Reduced manual effort in adverse media screening
• Faster and more consistent onboarding assessments
• Real-time visibility into regulatory and reputational developments
• Earlier identification of operational and financial risk signals
• Improved audit readiness through structured intelligence outputs
• Integrated monitoring across TPRM, investment, and risk teams

Owlin is now a core component of the firm’s technology infrastructure, turning real-time global intelligence into structured insights that support stronger compliance, proactive risk mitigation, and faster decision-making.