DetectX® takes Know Your Customer and Know Your Business beyond the lists. It reads what is published about a customer, an entity or anyone connected to them, rates each document for risk and sentiment, and sums up the risks in an AI overview your analyst verifies.
One Platform. Total Compliance.
One Platform. Total Compliance.
One search, every document read.
DetectX® Adverse Media Search starts from an alert, a query or a list of alerts. It reads and rates every document, flags possible namesakes and sums up the risks. The results appear on the alert, and the documents your analyst marks relevant go straight into it, with an overall risk score.
Three ways in, one way back. Start from an alert and its subject is searched for you, set up a new search from scratch, or run one search across many alerts at once. Whichever way it starts, the results come back to the alert.
Alert subject
Name, country, mode
A list of alerts
Shaped before it runs. Every search has a subject, a focus and limits that keep the results relevant. When a search starts from an alert, the subject is already set, and only the country and mode can change.
Every document arrives already read. Each one is rated for risk and sentiment, and the text marks critical words, medium-risk words and the people and companies named in it. Your analyst sees why a document matters without reading every line.
Prosecutors have opened an investigation into
Nordwind Trading AG and its director,
Marco Bianchi, over goods routed through
Lugano using shell companies to avoid
customs duties.
The pattern, not just the pages. Alongside the documents, a summary reads across every result: who is named, where, which of them are already known risks, and which words keep coming back.
Only the relevant reaches the case. Everything found is rated, your analyst marks what matters, and those documents are published straight into the alert, with an overall risk score.
Mode, keywords, range of days and languages.
Every document the query returns.
Risk and sentiment on every document.
Your analyst marks what matters for the alert.
One publication on the alert, with the 3 documents and an overall risk score.
Recorded before it runs. Every MediaSearch on an alert writes an audit record first, then attaches the results to it, so the search can be shown later exactly as it happened.
On an alert, or on an object from the search page.
An audit record is written before the search runs: who, when, which object and what type.
MediaSearch reads and rates what it finds.
The results are saved to that same record, as an attachment.
On the audit page, filtered to MediaSearch, with the results one click away.
The search takes seconds. The reading takes the day.
A media search that returns everything is easy to run and impossible to read. DetectX® rates every document before your analyst opens it, flags possible namesakes and puts what matters on the alert, with every search on the record.
Each document carries a risk score and a sentiment score, and the words that matter are marked in the text. Your analyst starts with the documents that count and sees why, without reading every line.
Natural Language ProcessingAuthorities have opened an investigation into Rheintal Logistics SA over irregularities in customs filings. Director Daniel Oberholzer was questioned about alleged fraud.
When several people share a name, identified profiles group the results by person and ambiguity notices point to possible identity conflicts. Your analyst reads about the subject, not someone else.
Link AnalysisEach mode adds its own fixed set of keywords to every search, so results start from the same baseline whoever runs it. Mandatory and optional keywords sharpen a search without changing that baseline.
Business Rules Design & EngineA search started from an alert runs inside it, next to the alert’s other evidence. Your analyst publishes the relevant results, or all of them, straight into the alert, with an overall risk score.
WorkflowsExample data.
An audit record is written before every search runs: who searched, when, on which subject and of what type. The results are saved to the same record and can be reviewed on the audit page at any time.
WorkflowsAn AI-generated overview pulls together the potential client risks across every result, marked for your analyst to verify. Key events in the summary link back to the documents they came from.
Agentic WorkflowsCustoms inquiry opened [1]
Director questioned [2]
Built for the reading, not only the search.
Most media searches stop at a page of links. The work, and the risk, sits in reading them. DetectX® is built so every result can be worked quickly and every check defended later.
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Three ways in, depending on where you are.
Each one is a conversation with the people who build DetectX®, with no obligation.
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Try it yourself: six steps, from a name to evidence on the alert.
DetectX® searches the subject, flags possible namesakes, rates every document and sums up the risks for your analyst to verify. Your analyst then publishes what is relevant to the alert, where the search is already on the record.
Illustrative exampleInvented Names & Data
Commodity trading company registered in Vaduz, dealing in base metals. Named in 2026 reporting on a customs inquiry into the declared value of metal imports.
Unrelated businesses trading under the same name, including a furniture retailer. Not the Liechtenstein company.
… Nordwind Trading AG is one of three importers whose declared values are now under review by the customs inquiry …
Nordwind Trading AG - Liechtenstein trader named in a customs valuation inquiry into metal imports.
The customs authority has opened an inquiry into metal imports declared at values well below market prices over eighteen months. Three importers are named, including a Vaduz-registered trader. No charges have been announced.
Nordwind Trading AG is named as one of three importers under review. Its managing director, Daniel Oberholzer, says the company disputes the valuation.
Role: perpetrator
Confidence: high
Explanation: Nordwind Trading AG is the subject of the inquiry described. The article reports an investigation, not a finding.
“The authority named three importers, among them Nordwind Trading AG of Vaduz, whose declared values it is now reviewing.”
… suppliers including Nordwind Trading AG were told their cargo would clear within ten days …
Nordwind Trading AG - one of the suppliers whose cargo was held at the port.
Role: bystander
Confidence: high
Explanation: Nordwind Trading AG is mentioned only as one of the suppliers whose cargo was delayed. The billing complaint is against the port operator, and the article does not describe the company as involved, a witness or a victim.
“Suppliers including Nordwind Trading AG were told their cargo would clear within ten days. The complaint names the operator alone.”
… Nordwind Trading, a furniture retailer with four stores on the coast, was fined for labelling …
Nordwind Trading - furniture retailer; no link to a Liechtenstein company in the text.
… Nordwind Trading AG added two traders to its Vaduz desk in the second quarter …
Nordwind Trading AG - mentioned among traders expanding in Vaduz.
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What compliance teams usually ask before they choose Adverse Media Search.
Adverse media search is the check of news, registers and other public sources for negative information about a customer, a counterparty or anyone connected to them. Compliance teams run it as part of due diligence, especially enhanced due diligence on higher-risk customers, because a clean result on sanctions and PEP lists says nothing about fraud, corruption or other crime reported in the press. DetectX® Adverse Media Search runs the check from the alert, rates every document it finds and records the search.
Each search can be limited to the sources, domains and languages your team chooses, with several languages selected at once. After the search, results can be narrowed again by language and range of days. Each mode adds its own fixed set of keywords, so every search in that mode starts from the same baseline.
Yes. Mandatory keywords must appear in a result, and optional keywords raise its relevance. Both are added on top of the fixed keyword set for each mode, so analysts can sharpen a search without changing the baseline.
When several people share a name, DetectX® groups the results into identified profiles and flags possible identity conflicts. Your analyst sees which results belong to the subject before reading them, and which belong to a namesake.
Yes, in two places, and a person decides in both. An AI-generated overview pulls the potential client risks together across every result, marked “subject to verification” for your analyst to confirm. Extended AI Search, switched on per search, widens a search with AI-enhanced relevance and context.
How a compliance team runs adverse media checks on DetectX®, from the first search to the recorded decision.
Read the case studyBrochureDetectX® Adverse Media SearchWhat the module searches, how every result is rated and how the findings reach the alert, in one brochure for your team.
Download the brochureInsightWhat is adverse media search?How banks and insurers check public sources for negative news about customers and companies, and where it fits in compliance.
Read the definitionAdverse Media Search · DetectX®
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