Adverse Media
The story your screening tool didn’t catch is the one regulators ask about.
Adverse media is only useful if you see it before everyone else. Hizer detects negative coverage on counterparties, executives and entities at first mention — across the local, regional and trade press where these stories actually break — and ships it as structured, auditable signal into your screening platform.
What you get
First-mention detection
Adverse coverage on persons, organizations and entities is detected as it appears in the global press — including the local-language and trade outlets standard adverse-media feeds routinely miss.
Entity-resolved, not string-matched
Names, organizations and locations are extracted, normalized and resolved to canonical identities — so spellings, transliterations and translations don’t fragment your watchlist hits.
Audit-ready signal
Every match comes with the article, source, language, country and timestamp behind it — so the chain from alert to evidence is one click, not one investigation.
Where it earns its keep
Negative news screening at onboarding
Run adverse-media checks during KYC onboarding against a feed that covers the markets your prospects actually operate in — not just English-language wires.
Ongoing monitoring of customers and counterparties
Continuously monitor existing relationships for emerging adverse coverage — and route material hits into your case management workflow with full evidence.
Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
Power EDD workflows with deeper, multilingual coverage and resolved entities — so analysts spend their time judging risk, not chasing translations.
Your questions, answered
Is this an adverse-media screening tool?
No. Hizer is the data and signal layer underneath your screening tool. We deliver real-time, multilingual, enriched adverse coverage; your screening, case management and risk platforms keep doing what they already do — better.
How do you cut false positives on common names?
Entities are resolved to canonical identities and disambiguated by context — so coverage about a specific individual or organization is separated from unrelated mentions of similar names.
How quickly does adverse coverage appear?
Articles are ingested and enriched continuously, so adverse mentions typically appear within minutes of publication — including in local and regional outlets.
How do we feed this into our existing systems?
Through the News API for query-based screening workflows and Firehose for full-stream ingestion into your data warehouse, screening engine or case management platform.