A customer’s name matches a sanctions record. The system raises an alert, but the date of birth differs, and the listed person lives elsewhere. The analyst reviews the available identifiers and supporting evidence before determining whether the alert can be…
KYC2020 Engineering
Why Adverse Media Screening Breaks on Famous Names, and Why LLMs Read Them Better
Adverse media screening, also called negative news screening, is meant to surface news that links a customer to financial crime. A recent screening flagged 14 articles on one customer. None of them were about that customer. Our adverse media engine…
Adverse Media Screening
A compliance partner’s pipeline went dark overnight when Google took out their scraping vendor. It pushed us to write something we’d been meaning to publish – a clear breakdown of how adverse media data is actually sourced, and why the architecture underneath your screening tool matters more than most buyers realize


