RegistryCross-border

Adverse Media Screening API - KYC/AML News

Negative-news screening for a company or person across jurisdictions. You get clean, structured records with the source registry attached - keyed off the name identifier.

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What you get

→Structured JSON, not HTML or PDFs
→Source registry attached to every record
→Read live at query time - current filings
→Queried by name or company name

python · regdata/adverse-media-screener

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("apify_api_xxxxx")
run = client.actor("regdata/adverse-media-screener").call(
    run_input={"name": "John Smith"}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Fields

What each Adverse media record contains

Field	What it holds
overallRisk	clear / low / medium / high / unknown. The worst media severity found - but a sanctions match sets a floor: confirmed is always high, possible at least medium. unknown means the screen was incomplete; the absence of hits proves nothing.
sanctionsListStatus	confirmed / possible / no-match / incomplete / unavailable.
listMatches[]	Confirmed matches: list, entry ID, listed name, what was matched, entity type, programs, countries, datesOfBirth, and why.
possibleListMatches[]	Matches for human adjudication that deliberately do not confirm. Same shape.
listsChecked[]	Per-list provenance: status (ok / stale / unavailable), when it was retrieved, how many entries.
screeningStatus	complete (the whole media sweep ran - a clear here is earned), partial (some searches failed), or unavailable (the media sweep did not run at all; the row rests on the sanctions screen alone).
searchesRun / searchesTotal	How much of the media sweep actually completed.
adverseHitCount	Number of genuine adverse hits returned.
categoriesFound	Distinct risk categories across the hits.
hits[]	Each adverse hit: source, date, snippet, risk category, severity, entity role, match confidence, and a one-line reason.
candidatesScreened	How many candidate articles were examined before filtering.

Sample record (JSON, people masked)

{
  "entityName": "Wirecard AG",
  "overallRisk": "high",
  "adverseHitCount": 6,
  "categoriesFound": [
    "fraud",
    "financial_crime"
  ],
  "hits": [
    {
      "title": "Wirecard Investors Drop Fraud Case ...",
      "url": "https://...",
      "source": "bloomberglaw.com",
      "publishedDate": "Nov 10, 2025",
      "snippet": "Wirecard invented fictional escrow accounts worth about $2 billion ...",
      "riskCategory": "fraud",
      "severity": "high",
      "entityRole": "perpetrator",
      "entityMatchConfidence": "high",
      "reason": "Wirecard AG is accused of inventing fictional escrow accounts."
    }
  ],
  "sanctionsListStatus": "no-match",
  "listMatches": [],
  "possibleListMatches": [],
  "listsChecked": [
    {
      "list": "OFAC-SDN",
      "status": "ok",
      "retrievedAt": "2026-07-28T...",
      "entryCount": 19157
    },
    {
      "list": "OFAC-CONS",
      "status": "ok",
      "retrievedAt": "2026-07-28T...",
      "entryCount": 481
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "Google News",
    "Google Web (adverse-term search)"
  ],
  "screenedAt": "2026-07-28T...",
  "disclaimer": "..."
}

Serves these use cases

KYC onboarding Contract & ESG compliance audit

FAQ

Does Adverse media have an API?

Adverse media (Cross-border) does not offer a clean public API for programmatic queries. getregdata reads the official source directly and returns structured JSON, keyed off the name identifier - so you get API-like access without an official endpoint.

How do I get Adverse media data programmatically?

Install the getregdata agent skills or MCP server, or run the regdata/adverse-media-screener actor on Apify. Query by name or company name and receive structured, source-attributed records. It is free to install; you pay per result on Apify.

What data does Adverse media return?

Negative-news screening for a company or person across jurisdictions.

Get a free sample of Adverse media data

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