Adverse media can appear across large volumes of news, official notices and other reference sources. The challenge is to find information that is relevant to a customer or third party, assess its credibility and apply your organisation’s own policies without losing time to noise or weak matches.
LSEG adverse media screening brings together quality-controlled structured adverse media in LSEG World-Check and unstructured media screening through Media Check in LSEG World-Check One. These complementary approaches help teams identify potential risk, focus review on relevant information and support informed decisions within their own due diligence processes. Explore the wider risk management solutions from LSEG Risk Intelligence.
At a glance
- Bring structured and unstructured adverse media into one risk-based screening approach.
- Focus review on relevant information from sources assessed in line with applicable research guidelines..
- Use configurable filters and categories to align screening with internal policies.
- Access screening through data feeds, APIs or LSEG World-Check One.
- Support onboarding and ongoing review with clearer, more relevant results.
Features and benefits
Review quality-controlled records covering relevant pre-conviction and post-conviction stages within LSEG World-Check data.
Use Media Check to search broad media content and bring more relevant results into review workflows.
Intelligent relevance filtering
Apply artificial intelligence, natural language processing and intelligent tagging to help separate relevant content from noise.
Filter by secondary identifiers, keywords, categories, subcategories and location in line with internal policies.
Select granular topics of interest to focus review on potential risks relevant to your risk-based approach.
Access adverse media data through feeds, APIs or the LSEG World-Check One screening platform.
Who uses the product
Organisations use adverse media information to support customer and third-party due diligence during onboarding and ongoing review. Users include compliance officers, money laundering reporting officers, risk leaders, general counsel, sanctions teams and procurement teams across financial institutions, retail banks, corporates and other regulated organisations. Internal operations and technology teams may also support screening software and workflow access through LSEG World-Check One.
Why choose adverse media screening from LSEG
Combine complementary types of adverse media
Structured World-Check records and unstructured Media Check results address different information needs. Using both approaches can help an organisation bring curated risk information and broader media discovery into the same due diligence strategy. This combination supports a broader review approach, while keeping review and decisions within its own policies, procedures and risk-based approach.
Focus attention on relevant information
Large volumes of media can make it difficult to separate useful information from noise. Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent tagging and configurable parameters help teams narrow results by entity, theme and other identifiers, supporting more focused review and more efficient use of team capacity without implying that technology makes the final decision.
Work with quality-controlled sources
LSEG uses reputable media and official sources in line with inclusion criteria and research guidelines. This gives reviewers a traceable basis for considering allegations, investigations, charges and convictions as potential risk information, while preserving the distinction between a reported event, a World-Check record and the customer’s own risk assessment and decision process.
Fit screening into established workflows
Adverse media information is available through data feeds, APIs and LSEG World-Check One. These access options allow organisations to select the delivery route that suits existing screening and due diligence processes, rather than forcing one operating model, while customer teams retain responsibility for configuration, review, escalation and final decisions under their own procedures.
How it works
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Use cases
Customer onboarding review
During onboarding, a compliance team may need to understand whether reliable sources report allegations, investigations, charges or convictions connected with a prospective customer. LSEG adverse media screening provides structured World-Check records and unstructured Media Check results that can be assessed alongside sanctions, law enforcement, regulatory enforcement and other due diligence information. Configurable identifiers, keywords and categories help the team focus on information relevant to the entity and its policies. The organisation can then document its review and decide whether further scrutiny or another action is appropriate, retaining responsibility for the assessment rather than relying on an automated compliance outcome.
Ongoing customer and third-party review
After a relationship begins, new media information may affect how an organisation understands potential financial, reputational or third-party risk. Initial and ongoing screening capabilities can support organisations in reviewing newly available information within established review processes, while intelligent tagging, natural language processing and filtering help teams focus on information relevant to their review. Reviewers can examine structured records or unstructured results in the context of the entity, internal policies and the organisation’s risk-based approach. This supports a consistent process for identifying information that may require attention, recording the assessment and determining any follow-up action without treating media reporting as proof of wrongdoing.
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