Compliance
When did you first become aware of this?
That question, from a regulator, an auditor, or internal review, is the one your compliance programme needs to answer confidently.
Opoint delivers the adverse media signals compliance teams need: articles indexed across 135 languages, available within minutes of first publication, deduplicated before they reach your queue.
The compliance gap is upstream of your process
Most compliance programmes are well-designed on paper. The problem is upstream: adverse media that arrives too late, alerts that fire on yesterday’s information, and coverage that stops at English-language sources, leaving entire regions of risk invisible to your screening tools.
EMEA enforcement penalties surged 767% in 2025.
Regulators are no longer asking whether firms have controls. They’re asking whether those controls are proportionate to actual risk exposure. Language coverage, signal timing, and deduplication quality are now part of that answer.
Adverse Media Detection, Earlier
Opoint indexes 3.5 million articles a day. When a counterparty appears in a local investigative report or regional regulatory notice, your team sees it at first mention: typically hours before it surfaces in English-language feeds.
Financial crime rarely breaks in English first. Opoint monitors 250,000+ sources across 135 languages and 230 jurisdictions, including the non-English regional press and niche trade publications that standard adverse media feeds routinely miss. Because the signal that matters most often surfaces in a language your current stack isn’t listening to.
Every article arrives structured: entity tags, LEI and FIGI identifiers, IPTC classification, deduplicated. Your screening tools ingest a clean signal. Your case management system gets an audit-ready record. Your team doesn’t dig through noise.
How Quantifind uses Opoint to power risk intelligence at scale
Quantifind’s Graphyte™ platform serves tier-1 and tier-2 banks, fintechs, and government agencies that run AML, KYC, sanctions, and investigative workflows. Before integrating Opoint, their customers were encountering consistent gaps: stories missing from non-English sources, latency between the first mention and alert delivery, and duplication that created noise, burying genuine signals.
With Opoint’s multilingual news feed embedded as Graphyte’s external signal layer, risk and compliance teams now surface adverse media at first mention across local, regional, and long-tail sources that standard feeds miss.
The integration of Opoint’s comprehensive news data with Quantifind’s AI-driven insights significantly enhances our ability to provide clients with timely and actionable intelligence.
Ari Tuchman, CEO, Quantifind
Opoint in numbers
Sources
+250,000
Articles found daily
+3,500,000
Languages
135
Jurisdictions
230
Want the full picture on detection latency?
Our guide maps the three dimensions of detection latency in AML and KYC workflows, signal timing, alert noise, and coverage gaps, along with an implementation framework and an Excel scorecard that your team can use right away.
Adverse media screening: common questions
What is adverse media screening?
Adverse media screening is the process of checking a customer, counterparty, or third party against news and public sources to find negative coverage that signals risk.
It covers financial crime, fraud, sanctions, and regulatory action, and sits alongside sanctions and PEP checks as part of full due diligence.
Is adverse media screening a regulatory requirement?
It is not a blanket legal mandate, but regulators expect it as part of a risk-based approach to due diligence, and for higher-risk customers, it is effectively required.
The FATF, the FCA, FinCEN, and the Wolfsberg Group all cite negative-news checks as part of customer due diligence.
How fast does Opoint deliver adverse media signals?
Opoint indexes articles within minutes of first publication, with average delivery under 7 minutes, whereas batch tools can leave a story sitting for an hour.
For compliance teams, that timing is the difference between catching a counterparty’s adverse news at first mention and finding it days later in an English-language feed.
Does Opoint provide screening or the data behind it?
Opoint provides the news data that adverse media screening runs on, not the screening interface itself. We deliver structured, real-time, multilingual coverage via an API.
You can feed it into your own screening workflow or use it to broaden the coverage of a screening platform you already operate, as Quantifind does.
Can Opoint integrate with our existing AML and KYC systems?
Yes. Opoint delivers data via a flexible API in structured JSON, including entity tags and LEI, FIGI, and IPTC identifiers, enabling integration with existing screening and case-management systems. Articles arrive deduplicated and audit-ready, so your tools ingest clean signal rather than raw noise.
Where compliance teams use Opoint
