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Adverse Media Screening (AMS)

Executive Summary

Adverse Media Screening (AMS) is a core component of Strise’s compliance platform, automatically scanning and classifying news articles and media sources to identify potential risk indicators associated with companies and individuals. AMS combines data ingestion at scale, NLP-powered classification, and AI-driven summarization to deliver actionable adverse media insights.

Automation and Monitoring

AMS runs continuously as part of Strise’s monitoring pipeline. When new adverse media is detected for entities in your portfolio, alerts are generated automatically — enabling event-based compliance without manual media searches.

How It Works

AMS operates through a five-step pipeline:

1. Data Collection

Strise ingests approximately 3 million news articles daily from Opoint, a global media monitoring provider. These articles span thousands of sources across multiple languages and geographies.

2. Data Normalization and NLP

Raw articles are processed through Strise’s NLP pipeline, which extracts key entities (companies, persons, locations), classifies content by topic, and normalizes the data into a structured format suitable for graph integration.

3. Knowledge Graph Integration

Extracted entities and their relationships are linked to existing nodes in the Strise Knowledge Graph. This contextual linking ensures that media mentions are correctly attributed to the right companies and individuals, even when names are ambiguous.

Articles are matched against entities using keyphrase-based search algorithms that identify relevant adverse media hits while filtering out noise and false positives.

5. AMS Summarization

Matched articles are summarized using Google Gemini, producing concise summaries that highlight the key risk-relevant information for reviewers.

AMS Topics

AMS classifies articles into the following topic categories:

  • Core criminal acts — Fraud, theft, embezzlement, corruption, bribery
  • Violence — Assault, murder, violent crime
  • Terrorism and espionage — Terrorism financing, espionage, state-sponsored threats
  • Drug and substance — Drug trafficking, substance-related offenses
  • Corporate and economic — Tax evasion, market manipulation, insider trading, accounting fraud
  • Legal and judicial — Lawsuits, regulatory enforcement, court proceedings
  • Specialized — Human trafficking, environmental crime, cybercrime
  • Miscellaneous — Other risk-relevant media that does not fit the above categories

New Functionality (Q3 2025)

AMS Settings Page

A dedicated AMS settings page allows teams to configure their adverse media screening parameters:

  • Search Duration — Choose how far back to search: 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, or 5 years
  • Search Language — Select which languages to include: Danish (DA), English (EN), Finnish (FI), Swedish (SV), Norwegian (NO)
  • Keywords — Define custom keywords to refine screening criteria
  • Filtering by Sources — Include or exclude specific media sources
  • Filtering by Topics — Select which AMS topic categories to screen for

Company and Person AMS

  • Company entity pages display up to 100 AMS hits
  • Review pages display up to 20 AMS hits per entity
  • Results include color coding to indicate severity and relevance

Contact

For questions about AMS configuration or capabilities, contact support@strise.ai.

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