Negative news: your digital sentinel for KYC
Negative news is often the first visible sign of hidden risks, long before they appear in official records. Yet analysts are overwhelmed by the flood of information.
Our Negative News Agent brings structure and focus: scanning, filtering, and summarising signals so compliance teams can act faster and with confidence.
Spot risks sooner. Act with confidence
Between financial news, legal updates and political coverage, early warning signals often hide in plain sight. These fragments, known as adverse media, are now a core component of AML/CFT risk detection.
Negative news isn’t background noise. It’s often the first public sign of hidden risk, long before it surfaces in official documents.
But with information exploding, analysts are drowning in the noise: scanning articles, matching names, checking context, repeating the cycle. It’s slow, repetitive, and hard to scale.That’s why we built a dedicated AI agent for negative news review. Integrated into your KYC and monitoring workflows, it acts as an augmented intelligence layer, scanning, filtering, prioritising, and summarising so your team can focus where judgment is needed most.
Smart screening, built for compliance
Our AI agent doesn’t just flag articles, it understands them. Its mission: to assess the potential impact of negative media in the context of regulatory risk, all while keeping you in full control. Because at Harmoney, we believe AI should support, never replace.
It’s trained to:
- Detect risk-heavy language: corruption, laundering, sanctions, terrorism…
- Recognise trigger events in a structured KYC process
- Operate both in initial screening and ongoing monitoring
It focuses on seven key risk categories:
- Corruption and bribery
- Corporate malfeasance
- Financial crime
- Predicate offences
- Reputational risk
- Sanctions and embargoes
- Terrorism and terrorist financing
Each alert is generated in a structured, documented, and auditable format.
What you get from our Negative News Agent
Clear, actionable insights to strengthen decision-making:
- Extracted entities: individuals and organisations involved
- Risk keywords & related offences
- A co-occurrence map of key relationships
- A chronological summary to keep facts in context
Contact us for more info on our AI orchestration capabilities.