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Adverse media screening is a crucial component of modern Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes and regulatory compliance. It involves systematically monitoring various media sources to identify any negative news or information concerning individuals or entities. This could include reports of financial misconduct, criminal investigations, regulatory breaches, or other potentially damaging behaviors.
Information gleaned from a focused adverse media screening can serve as an early warning sign of potential illicit activities, helping to prevent money laundering and other forms of financial crime. Integrating adverse media screening into your AML processes can enhance your due diligence efforts and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Moody’s adverse media screening solution leverages comprehensive and diverse media sources and machine learning to help our customers identify relevant negative news, so they can mitigate the risk of doing business.
Our team actively monitors a vast list of media sources and continuously updates our coverage to ensure that our customers receive valuable insight. We provide a comprehensive and diverse range of media content from various sources. And we are committed to ensuring that our coverage remains unbiased and representative of the global adverse media landscape.
Using risk code filtering and threshold settings that align with each customer’s risk tolerance, we help our customers with a well-defined search strategy to avoid an overwhelming number of results.
We deploy natural language processing (NLP) to identify the language of submitted names, whether submitted in Latin or another script, and to match against profiles with similar names within the corresponding language, so we can account for different naming conventions across the world.
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Moody's adverse media screening solution helps organizations identify potential risks associated with their customers, partners or third parties by screening massive amounts of data for negative news or information. It leverages advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and natural language processing, to analyze and interpret media content in real time.
Tap into global media coverage ranging from large multinational publications to small, regional circulations – covering 240 countries and more than 70 languages.
Be confident you are screening against data from sources that are rigorously and continuously vetted.
Benefit from natural language processing and AI-driven false positive reduction to save time and resources while delivering precise risk assessments.
Our tailored screening criteria align with your unique risk appetite and regulatory obligations, providing you with relevant insights and actionable information.
Continuous, real-time monitoring and updating of screening parameters keep you one step ahead of evolving risks and regulatory changes, ensuring your risk management strategy remains effective over time.
Risk rarely exists in isolation. Combining adverse media screening with Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and sanctions screening creates a comprehensive risk management framework.
By integrating these screening processes during onboarding, you can enhance your KYC/AML program and identify a broader range of risks associated with customers, suppliers, and other third parties. This holistic approach helps mitigate risks, demonstrates a proactive approach to compliance, and enhances due diligence processes by providing valuable insights into different areas of risk.
Consolidate screening and monitor results into a single, integrated process optimizes resources and improves efficiency through automation.
The volume and complexity of data available for adverse media screening have increased exponentially, presenting both opportunities and challenges for organizations and regulatory bodies. The strategic implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in media ingestion emerges as a pivotal solution. AI-driven media ingestion enables automated collection, analysis, and interpretation of vast amounts of unstructured data from diverse sources such as news articles, and regulatory databases.
Adverse media screening plays a critical role in your organization's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes due to its ability to provide comprehensive insight into potential risks associated with a client or partner. It involves the systematic monitoring of various media sources to identify negative news or information about individuals or entities. This is particularly relevant in AML efforts because such information can serve as an early warning sign of potential illicit activities.
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