Adverse media screening data
Your screening only catches what your data can see. When a customer or counterparty appears in an investigative report, a regulatory notice, or a local news story, your team needs to know at first mention, not at the next review.
Opoint delivers the news data that powers adverse media screening: 250,000 sources across 135 languages, deduplicated and structured, reaching your systems in under 7 minutes from publication.
English-only screening leaves your biggest risks invisible
Financial crime rarely breaks in English first. A counterparty named in a Portuguese investigative report, a regulatory action filed in Mandarin, a fraud case surfacing in regional trade press: these are the developments a standard adverse media feed misses, and the ones a regulator later asks why you missed. The gap isn’t your screening logic. It’s the coverage feeding it.
What good adverse media data gives your team
Detection at first mention
Opoint indexes up to 3.5 million articles a day. When a counterparty appears in a local investigative report or a regional regulatory notice, your team sees it at first mention, typically hours before it reaches English-language feeds.
Coverage across 135 languages
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. The signal that matters most often surfaces in a language your current stack isn’t listening to.
Structured for your screening workflow
Every article arrives structured: entity tags, LEI and FIGI identifiers, IPTC classification, and deduplicated before it reaches your queue. Your screening tools ingest a clean signal. Your case management system gets an audit-ready record. Your team doesn’t dig through noise.
What Opoint covers
Sources
+250,000
Articles found daily
+3,500,000
Languages
135
Jurisdictions
230
To see what that means in practice, consider a real example.
When two water overflow incidents affected Vale’s iron ore operations in Brazil, the story was published in Portuguese more than 12 hours before the first English wire carried it.
For a compliance team monitoring exposure to Vale or its counterparties, those 12 hours were a window during which the risk was public knowledge in one language and invisible in another. Adverse media screening based on English-only sources would have missed it entirely until the next day.
Where teams use Opoint for adverse media
Sanctions-related news
Your sanctions lists tell you who’s designated. Opoint surfaces the reporting on sanctions actions, investigations, and enforcement, often in local-language press, before it reaches a formal list. Coverage that complements your sanctions screening doesn’t replace the list.
PEP-related news
Your PEP list tells you who’s exposed. Opoint surfaces the news about them, the local-language reporting on politically connected individuals that signals emerging risk, across 135 languages.
Fraud and financial-crime coverage
Opoint surfaces news of fraud cases, financial-crime investigations, and ethical concerns as they’re reported worldwide, so a development involving a customer or counterparty reaches your team early.
Negative news monitoring
Continuous monitoring across a wide range of negative-news topics, from financial crime to regulatory action, in the languages and regions your customers operate in.
How Quantifind surfaces adverse media at first mention
Quantifind’s Graphyte platform powers risk intelligence for banks, fintechs, and government agencies. Their customers kept hitting the same coverage gap: adverse media that broke in non-English sources arrived late, or never surfaced at all, and duplication buried the signals that did. With Opoint’s multilingual feed as Graphyte’s external signal layer, their risk teams now catch adverse media at first mention, across the local and regional sources English-only 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
See what your screening is missing
You can’t screen against a story your data never saw. Bring us the markets and languages your customers and counterparties operate in, and we’ll show you what our data picks up, and when.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between adverse media and negative news?
Does Opoint provide adverse media screening?
How does Opoint help reduce false positives and noise?
Opoint clusters duplicate coverage of the same event into a single story with a source count and delivers enriched data tagged with entity and topic metadata.
Your analysts review distinct developments connected to the right names, rather than wading through repeated copies of the same syndicated article
Can I integrate Opoint with my existing compliance systems?
Yes. Opoint delivers data via a flexible API in structured JSON, enabling integration with existing screening and case-management systems.
You can also access content directly through our OSINT tool and dashboard. Most integrations are straightforward for an engineering team to implement.
