Adverse Media Screening & Monitoring

250+
Customers
60K+
New Sources
100+
Countries & Languages
60 mins
Update Frequency
SOC2
Compliant

Trusted by 250+ Organizations Worldwide

Why We're Your Trusted Adverse Media Screening Partner

60K High Quality News Sources

Access over 60,000 highly trusted news sources in over 100 countries and multiple language for the latest insights.

Structured Tagging

Each article is categorized by risk themes such as financial crime, regulatory violation or reputation harm.

Smart Screening Technology

Maximize the benefits of our advanced algorithms: significantly reduce false positives, reduce noise in the media, and boost accuracy.

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Our Adverse Media Screening: Key Features

No Set-Up Required Screening
Access our comprehensive database covering global sanctions, PEP, and criminal watchlists, enabling robust screening processes.
International Organization PEPs
Persons who are or have been entrusted with a prominent function by an international organization, refers to members of senior management or individuals who have been entrusted with equivalent functions, i.e. directors, deputy directors and members of the board or equivalent functions.

No Set-Up Required Screening

High-Volume Batch Screening

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Data Quality & Reliability
High-credibility, real-time sources with noise reduction to filter out irrelevant content using advanced algorithms.

Data Quality & Reliability

Global Coverage
With over 60k sources in over 100 countries and multi-language support, capture early adverse media warnings across jurisdictions.

Global Coverage

Flexible Screening & Monitoring
One-time screenings at onboarding or continuous monitoring to automatically detect risks for existing customers & entities.

Flexible Screening & Monitoring

Unified Risk View
Structured tagging to categorize articles by risk types. Combine with Sanctions, PEP & Watchlist data for a complete risk profile of an entity.

Unified Risk View

Data Quality & Reliability
High-credibility, real-time sources with noise reduction to filter out irrelevant content using advanced algorithms.

Data Quality & Reliability

Global Coverage
With over 60k sources in over 100 countries and multi-language support, capture early adverse media warnings across jurisdictions.

Global Coverage

Flexible Screening & Monitoring
One-time screenings at onboarding or continuous monitoring to automatically detect risks for existing customers & entities.

Flexible Screening & Monitoring

Unified Risk View
Structured tagging to categorize articles by risk types. Combine with Sanctions, PEP & Watchlist data for a complete risk profile of an entity.

Unified Risk View

Smart Matching Technology

Our name matching technology leverages NLP and Machine Learning to overcome challenges in AML and sanctions screening, including diverse name phenomena and transliteration issues in non-Latin languages.

  • Industry-leading name matching technology based on latest research in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Covers transliteration issues, nicknames, spelling errors, honorifics, and many more 'real-world' matching challenges

  • Significantly reducing false positives while making sure no real matches slip through the cracks

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Phonetic Similarity
Transliteration & Spelling
Semantic Similarity
Multiple Languages
Nicknames, Honorifics etc.

Integration, Made Simple:

SAP®

Integrate our solutions and Apps for SAP ERP systems

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BigID®

Simple AML and sanctions screening in BigID

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Salesforce®

Sanctions & PEP screening natively in Salesforce CRM

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Hubspot®

Sanctions & PEP screening natively in HubSpot CRM

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Solutions for Any AML and Sanctions Compliance Workflow

Real-Time Screening API

Our API enables real-time, event-driven sanctions and AML screenings with an average API response time of ~350m. Perfect for real-time onboarding and transaction screening use cases.

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Batch Screening API

Screen hundreds to thousands of individuals or entities simultaneously against various watchlists using our batch screening API endpoint.

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Manual Screening

Use our screening portal for manual screenings of your business partners or conduct batch screenings by simply uploading an Excel file with your data. Results are available in various formats via Email or directly in our user portal.

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Continuous Monitoring

Automate entity monitoring with real-time alerts, custom allow- and deny-listing and comprehensive global watchlist coverage, seamlessly integrated with your compliance process.

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Integrations

Easily integrate our solutions with various system environments using our pre-built connectors and Apps for SAP®, BigID® and many other services and systems.

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Custom Solutions

Need a tailored solution to streamline your compliance process? From assisted screening services to seamless custom integrations, we’ll support you designing a solution that fits your unique needs. Schedule a call today with our team.

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What Our Customers Are Saying

The product is amazing and the tech is tight. We integrated the sanctions.io API within a couple of days and now perform daily screenings of our entire customer base.

Dan Westgarth
COO, Deel Inc.

Sanctions.io combines robust, reliable and industry leading technology with hands on customer support. We implemented full passenger vetting in a matter of days and have had no issues with the API since inception.

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Flight Operations & Business Development,
Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group

We couldn't be happier with sanctions.io. The team is super responsive to our requests for help. In short, total satisfaction!

Randy Trigg
Director of Information Management,
Global Fund for Women

Our experience with sanctions.io has been transformative for our compliance processes. Their reliable and comprehensive sanctions data feeds have provided us with the peace of mind that comes from knowing we're operating within international compliance standards.

Armand Brunelle
CTO, WeFi Technology Group LLC
"The product is amazing and the tech is tight"
Dan Westgarth, COO Deel Inc.
"Industry leading tech combined with hands-on customer support"
Patrick O'Brian, Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group
"We couldn't be happier - total satisfaction!"
Randy Trigg, Director of Information Management, Global Fund for Women
"Our experience with sanctions.io has been transformative."
Armand Brunelle, CTO WeFi Technology Group
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