AI-Powered Risk Detection for a Complex World
Vital4’s Adverse Media solution provides real-time screening of individuals and entities across a vast network of global media sources to identify potential reputational and financial crime risks — before they escalate. Powered by proprietary AI and curated data, this solution enables compliance teams to surface only what matters most: actionable insights, not overwhelming noise.
Proprietary Data. Global Reach. Reliable Results.
Unlike legacy providers that rely on outdated technology and purchase data from third-party providers, Vital4 builds and maintains its own datasets. Our real-time adverse media engine scans tens of thousands of digital publications globally.
Each record is enriched with metadata, and contextual relevance is analyzed to help organizations quickly understand the nature and severity of the risk.
Classifying Threats Through Language Intelligence
Articles are classified and scored using proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, trained specifically to detect and categorize risk indicators such as:
Our models are built with a focus on precision and recall, meaning we reduce irrelevant alerts while increasing the detection of high-priority risks. With customizable thresholds, Vital4 gives you the flexibility to tailor your screening to your industry’s risk appetite, without compromising speed or accuracy.
Vital4 Adverse Media is designed to fit seamlessly into any compliance ecosystem:
Whether you’re conducting AML checks during customer onboarding or managing third-party vendors across international markets, adverse media is a key signal of emerging risk. This solution supports a wide range of use cases:
Compliance teams using Vital4 Adverse Media have seen:
Regulators globally are increasing expectations for media screening as part of enhanced due diligence. In fact, organizations that fail to detect risks tied to adverse media may face enforcement actions, fines, or reputational harm — especially when predicate crimes like trafficking, fraud, and organized crime are involved.
Vital4 helps you meet and exceed these standards, with transparency, auditability, and performance you can trust.
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Insights from Vital4
Vital4’s Co-founder and President, Amy Barbieri, and Chief Revenue Officer, Todd McCormick, host this live webinar, along with Vital4’s Chief Data Scientist, Kellan Williams, taking a deeper dive into how to use our proprietary sentiment analysis enhancement to solve the false positive rate problem in adverse media.
which will prove to be a game changer for the financial services industry
Vital4’s Amy Barbieri is once again joined by AGG’s Montserrat Miller to discuss using and selling Adverse Media in the Employment and KYC/AML context to define the best use cases and compliance nuances. Watch the full recording now!