Adverse Media Check and Screening Software
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What is adverse media and why run an adverse media check?
- Comprehensive and efficient background screening
- Identify potential risks swiftly and accurately
- Trustworthy and secure screening process
Identify red flags
From a compliance perspective, there may be an increased risk when doing business with individuals who appear in adverse media especially in high-risk jobs like the financial industry.
Database in +200 countries
With the adverse media check, potential red flags are searched for in various languages across millions of online public web pages, all within just a minute.
Hire with confidence
In the event that no negative coverage is found about your candidate, you can make hiring decisions with confidence.
How do we conduct an Adverse Media check?
At PESHECK, we prioritize comprehensive background checks for your business's safety and security. Our Adverse Media Check stands out as a robust search engine tool that delves into major platforms like Google, Bing, and Yandex.
This tool specifically targets detecting any negative publicity or critical information about individuals or organizations, in sectors such as the Gig-economy, Financial services, and Tech. This approach is fundamental to safeguarding your business interests.
Risk indicators filter our adverse media check to ensure that we only provide you with relevant and accurate information. This means you can trust us to provide you with the most comprehensive and reliable adverse media check available.
Benefits of outsourcing it to Pescheck
Millions of news items are published around the world every day. Manually searching for negative information about your candidate can be very time-consuming and tedious, especially looking up good local media coverage is time-consuming. Often organisations cannot check all the news in different languages, it can therefore be difficult to conduct accurate and reliable research. Our technique is being used by Interpol and governmental agencies worldwide.
Adverse media service
We use databases all over the world in which information can be retrieved quickly, reliably, and automatically in +200 countries.
Save time and resources
Relieve your organisation from this time-consuming process and let us automate it. Privacy-compliant and results in <1 minute.
Easy-to-use software
We performed more than +300.000 screenings for +1.000 organisations using our easy-to-use software.
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Pescheck has been a positive change for our company. Their service is user friendly, efficient and personable. The team's quality of customer service and communication has been superb.
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Recruiting, Jump Trading
The team behind Pescheck is exceptional. They work super fast and always respond with quality content. The API connection works great and gives us much flexibility. They deliver what they promise at a predictable price.
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Questions & answers
Adverse media means any negative or unfavourable information about a person or organisation published in public sources such as news outlets, regulatory bulletins, court records, social media, blogs and web articles. In background screening, an adverse media check (also called adverse media screening or negative news screening) reviews these sources at scale to flag stories tied to fraud, corruption, financial crime, terrorism, trafficking or other reputational risk that could affect a hiring decision.
An adverse media check helps your organisation avoid associating with individuals who have a documented history of negative publicity, regulatory action or criminal involvement. It supports anti-money laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC) and ESG obligations, protects brand reputation, and gives compliance and HR teams an evidence-based view of risk before onboarding employees, contractors, vendors or business partners.
Our adverse media screening uses automated search across major engines including Google, Bing and Yandex, combined with structured databases covering 200+ countries and multiple languages. Risk indicators filter the results so you only see relevant adverse press tied to fraud, financial crime, sanctions, violence or other compliance concerns. Results are returned in under a minute through the Pescheck dashboard and can be repeated on demand for ongoing monitoring.
The terms are used interchangeably. An adverse press check usually emphasises traditional news media and printed press, while an adverse media check covers a broader scope: news sites, regulatory and law enforcement releases, social media, blogs and web articles. Pescheck performs the broader version by default so you get full coverage of online and offline adverse media in one report.
The adverse media check confirms whether the candidate has been mentioned in any unfavourable news stories (online or offline), has been linked to criminal activity, or has been implicated in fraud, corruption, terrorism, trafficking or other regulated misconduct. Results are filtered by risk category so reviewers can focus on what matters.
Examples of adverse media include news stories about criminal convictions, financial fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions designations, regulatory enforcement actions, ethical violations and coverage of serious civil disputes.
Adverse media screening is relevant for any sector where reputation, compliance or customer trust is critical, including financial services, fintech, gig economy, technology, healthcare, government, aerospace, recruitment and logistics. It is especially important for regulated industries with AML, KYC and ESG obligations.
A one-time adverse media check captures risk at the moment of hire, but reputational and compliance risk evolves over time. For regulated roles, executives, board members and high-risk third parties, Pescheck recommends ongoing adverse media monitoring on a periodic basis (for example annually) or continuous monitoring so new negative news is flagged automatically as it appears.
An adverse media check is almost instant. The screening starts automatically when it is requested through the Pescheck dashboard and results are typically returned in under a minute.
