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      Contents

      What is Factiva?

      Where can I locate Factiva articles?

      Why can't I access any Factiva links?

      What is the difference between Factiva and live AVM?

       

      What is Factiva?

      Factiva, also referred to as structured AVM is a business intelligence platform that includes content from 33,000 news, data and information sources from 200 countries and 32 languages. The platform contains millions of corporate profiles, as well as research tools to analyse media coverage. KYC360 provides Factiva coverage within the profile of an individual / entity.

      Factiva includes flexible capabilities, features and benefits:

      • Diverse content sources: The unrivalled content set includes newspapers, magazines, journals, websites, blogs, market research and multimedia formats from credible, reliable sources.
      • Global perspectives: Factiva houses content in 32 languages, and research results can be filtered to limit search results to a particular language.
      • Deep archive: The archive has more than two billion articles. The oldest dates from 1944, and 2,300 sources have more than 20 years of archived articles. 
      • Company and market data: Analyse firms and sectors with public and private company profiles, financial reports, regulatory filings and industry information. 

      Benefits

      - all sources have been through the necessary approvals at Dow Jones

      - surface within the context of the DJ profile presented back in relation to individual/entity

      Considerations

      - only 'convicted', 'arrested' 'charged' findings - therefore there may be either a perceived delay before an article surfaces within the DJ profile or it may not surface at all depending on Dow Jones' definition e.g. if there is an open court case and therefore no conviction as of yet.

       

      Where can I locate Factiva articles?

      • Factiva links (Structured AVM) may present as part of the search in RiskScreen.
      • This comes through within the 'Details' tab of a profile within DJ – see screenshot below.

       

      Why can't I access any Factiva links?

      When reviewing the details tab of a profile, you may see that the following links are greyed out:

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      Factiva Reader Access is an additional paid for module, which requires sits behind a feature ‘flag’ allowing us to track which customers have agreed a commercial position with us on this and therefore have access vs customers who do not. If you wish to have access Factiva you will be required to take out additional licence and pay additional fee, charged on a pass-through basis – this is based on number of seats. If you would like more information about this service, please contact our account management team at accountmanagement@kyc360.com

       

      What is the difference between Factiva and live AVM?

      Please find below a table that highlights the distinct differences between structured AVM and Live AVM, in addition to where these are located in your RiskScreen Core and Hosted Batch Screening Solution.


      Key differences between Structured AVM vs Unstructured AVM:



      Factiva Reader Access (Structured Adverse Media):

      Factiva is a feed is provided by Dow Jones, which holds over 33,000 various media sources and an international team which monitors and updates or raises profiles based on the information shown.

      Live AVM Module (Unstructured Adverse Media):

      • Live AVM searches are included within your RiskScreen Core tool.
      • Live AVM screening enables your team to leverage a range of information available in Google Search/Bing Search/Bing News, which is a useful tool to supplement your CDD process.
      • Conducting searches for adverse media enhances companies' awareness of potential financial crime risks posed by both existing and prospective customers.
      • Live AVM may reveal involvement in criminal activity, as this process retrieves results, in instances where a prospective client may be undergoing trial for a crime, and the proceedings have not yet been concluded.