Regulatory authorities around the world require financial institutions to conduct "Adverse Media Monitoring" Adverse Media Monitoring is undoubtedly part of a responsible Know Your Customer (KYC) concept in 2024.

4 Millionen news article are published every day - about corruption, collision and financial fraud, just to name a few. The total from serious media up to politically motivated accusations consolidate in data bases from:

• traditional news 

• modern media of international organisations

• Blogs and Webarticle

• Websites

Correctly assessing the media and relying on the relevant sources is an important factor for successful adverse media monitoring.

Manual checks are time-consuming and tie up resources.

A Google search is no longer enough, as many credible sources only provide their news for a fee. In-house adverse media monitoring requires native speakers, as context is lost in automated translations from certain languages and judges, lawyers and defendants are easily confused.

Distinguishing between trustworthy and untrustworthy media is challenging, and who wants to tell Google and other search engines what their customer portfolio looks like by regularly searching for their own customer names?