The client is not on any list or sanctions register, but the press writes about them as a party to a fraud case? NeuroVision reputational screening searches for negative publications about a person and a company in the media and open sources — in one request with PEP, sanctions and regulator measures. Namesakes are filtered out by year of birth, and the decision stays with your compliance team.
Negative publications are checked together with PEP, sanctions and regulator measures: the record shows where the person was found.
A person gets onto a list or sanctions register after an authority’s decision. A publication about an opened case, a detention or a journalistic investigation appears earlier — sometimes by months.
115‑FZ requires taking measures on a regular basis to establish a client’s business reputation. Open publications are an accessible source of such information.
Fraud, corruption, tax evasion, links to organised crime — some stories never reach the lists. But for a bank or a payment service it is the same risk.
Russian registers say nothing about a citizen of another country. International publications are one of the few sources on their reputation.
For compliance, a negative publication is not just any critical review. What matters are topics that point to a risk of money laundering, terrorist financing or fraud. Six groups to set up your review rules for.
Cases of fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement, schemes involving depositors and borrowers. The most common topic for banks and payment services.
Bribes, abuse of office, kickbacks in procurement. Especially important if the client is a PEP or their associate: then also see PEP screening.
Cashing out, transit schemes, tax evasion, shell companies. A direct signal for 115‑FZ.
Sanctions evasion, smuggling, export control violations. Sanctions status itself is checked against the lists, while a publication shows the story around it.
Publications on terrorist financing and extremist activity. A match with the Rosfinmonitoring list is checked separately and has its own deadlines.
Drugs, human trafficking, weapons, cybercrime, membership in criminal groups. Rare, but the most serious findings.
Six steps: three are done by the service, three by your compliance team. A publication is not a verdict in itself, so the review is up to a person.
First and last name are required; date of birth, country and gender filter out namesakes. For Russian citizens the name from the foreign passport is more reliable: international sources write in Latin script. The data can be taken from a document recognised in the KYC session.
The name is compared with profiles in the consolidated database: negative publications, PEP, sanctions and regulator measures. Profiles with similarity of 95 out of 100 or higher are returned.
For each profile — similarity, the spelling that matched, year of birth, country and categories: if “media” is present, the person was found in negative publications.
Year of birth or country does not match — it is a namesake, the check is passed. No data in the profile — compare the patronymic, gender and the application form.
Who the client is in the story: accused, victim, witness or merely mentioned. How recent the news is, how the case ended, how reliable the source is.
Standard risk, elevated risk with enhanced due diligence, or refusal — according to your internal control rules. Keep the basis of the decision together with the result: an inspector will ask for it.
Publications about the company by full and short name and trademark: regulator claims, criminal cases, schemes involving clients. Company search is enabled on request.
The chief executive is the first person the press writes about. They are checked by full name and date of birth in the same request as an individual client.
An owner with a negative history changes the risk of the whole company. Take founders from the register and beneficial owners from the UBO check.
For a significant contract, publications are part of the reputational track of due diligence, where conclusions are drawn by experts.
Checking a company against registers and the people behind it against Russian databases — on the page counterparty checks.
The law does not contain the words “adverse media”. But it does require you to know a client’s business reputation and keep that information up to date — publications help to meet that duty.
A check at onboarding shows the press for a single day. Negative publication monitoring is needed where risk can appear later.
When: before opening an account, signing a contract or making the first payout.
How: in the KYC session together with the document, PEP and sanctions — in one request.
When: annual information update, for low risk — once every three years.
How: a repeat run on the client data already stored.
When: a large or unusual transaction, a change of executive, doubts about the information.
How: a one-off check before a decision on the transaction.
When: high-risk clients and large corporate clients.
How: the database is placed under AML monitoring, with repeat checks on a schedule.
A fixed price per check, with no subscription fee. Checks skipped for lack of data are not billed.
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OFAC, EU, UK and UN with similarity score and aliases. No publications
Negative publications in the media, PEP and their associates, sanctions lists of 50+ countries, regulator measures — in one request
on request
Publications about a company by name and brand, scheduled repeat search across the whole client base
The basic “16 in 1” package on a Russian passport — 50 ₽; trial period — 1 month. Price matrix.
Pay for completed checks. Cloud in Russia or your own environment.
It is a search for publications about a client or company in the media and open sources that point to risk: fraud, corruption, laundering, sanctions evasion. At NeuroVision it runs in one request with PEP, sanctions and regulator measures.
Sanctions screening checks whether a person is on official lists. Publications show stories that have not reached the lists yet — or never will. That is why extended screening covers both.
There is no separate rule on adverse media. But the law requires taking measures on a regular basis to establish a client’s business reputation, and the scope of measures depends on risk. For high-risk clients, a publication search is an accessible and reasonable measure.
First and last name are required; date of birth, country and gender reduce the number of namesakes. For Russian citizens it is better to pass the name from the foreign passport: international sources write it in Latin script.
First make sure it is your client: year of birth, country, patronymic. Then read who they are in the story and how it ended. The decision — standard or elevated risk, enhanced due diligence or refusal — is made by the responsible employee under your internal control rules.
A publication is information, not evidence. Usually it is a reason to request explanations and documents. The grounds and procedure for refusal are set by 115‑FZ and your internal control rules; keep the review together with the result.
On accepting a client, on updating information — once a year, for low risk once every three years — and on events: a large transaction, a change of executive. Monitoring of negative publications across the whole base is enabled through AML customer monitoring.
Yes. Publications about a company are searched by name and brand; the executive and founders are checked by full name and date of birth. For a major deal, publications are part of the reputational track of due diligence.
No. The service finds publications and shows that a person is mentioned in them. Under the personal data law, criminal record information is a special category, processed only in cases established by federal laws.
36 ₽ per check: negative publications, PEP, sanctions of 50+ countries and regulator measures. Checks skipped due to insufficient data are not charged. Company search and repeat checks of the base — on request. Trial period — 1 month.
Tell us whom you check — individuals, companies or both — and how many clients are in your base, and we will propose a scenario and a quote.
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