Detect emerging risks across your customer, vendor, and third-party relationships
Move from reactive investigation to proactive risk management with continuous monitoring, intelligent alerts, and streamlined case management that identifies threats before they escalate into losses
Companies and organizations rely on continuous monitoring to remain compliant and protect their business and customers — manual processes, alert overload, and disconnected systems slow them down
Monitor continuously; catch risks early
One-time screening misses risks that emerge after onboarding. Continuous monitoring across sanctions, adverse media, criminal records, and other risk indicators ensures you are notified when circumstances change, so you can respond before exposure increases.
Prioritize intelligently; focus on real threats
Generic alerts create noise that raises genuine risks. Intelligent alert management helps you distinguish meaningful changes from false positives, allowing your team to focus investigative resources where they matter most.
Document decisions; ensure compliance
Scattered case notes and inconsistent documentation create audit risk. Centralized alert management with source-attributed reporting ensures every decision is traceable, defensible, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
See the difference the right solution makes
95%
of users agree CLEAR saves them time with their investigations and due diligence
60%
average reduction in time to complete investigations and due diligence with CLEAR
67%
average improvement in effectiveness of investigations and due diligence when using CLEAR
*UserEvidence survey of existing CLEAR customers, 2025
End-to-end monitoring workflow
- Configure
- Manage
- Escalate
Monitoring configuration
Turn on continuous, risk-appropriate monitoring for your portfolio.
What you can achieve by using CLEAR Adverse Media and CLEAR:
Alert management
Review alerts to assess legitimacy and determine next steps.
What you can achieve by using CLEAR:
- Access all alerts through a centralized dashboard that consolidates monitoring results across your portfolio.
- Review alert details with full context and source attribution to understand what changed and why it matters.
- Collaborate with team members directly within the platform to triage alerts and assign follow-up actions.
- Receive email notifications when new alerts are generated, ensuring timely awareness of emerging risks.
- Distinguish meaningful changes from false positives using intelligent matching and entity resolution.
Alert escalation and documentation
Investigate further or create reports for appropriate stakeholders.
What you can achieve by using CLEAR and CLEAR Investigate:
- Investigate high-priority alerts directly within the same platform using comprehensive subject profiles, relationship analysis, and link charts.
- Generate professional reports with full source attribution that document alert findings.
Use our risk and fraud solutions to configure continuous monitoring, manage alerts efficiently, and escalate risks with comprehensive documentation
CLEAR Adverse Media
Monitor for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media changes across your customer, vendor, and third-party portfolio.
CLEAR
Monitor for changes to public records like new addresses, phone numbers, death records, assets, criminal records changes, and more. Manage alerts through a centralized dashboard.
CLEAR Investigate
Conduct deep due diligence on high-risk parties with agentic AI workflows that uncover unknown connections and deliver trusted answers faster.
Have questions?
See firsthand why customers are choosing Thomson Reuters for their risk and fraud solutions
“Previously, my organization was not able to perform bulk screening or monitoring. CLEAR Adverse Media & Sanctions has given us the opportunity to change from manual one-off checks to screen hundreds of businesses and individuals daily.”
Daniel Diordano
Chief Financial Officer, Energy Impact Partners
“CLEAR has allowed us to be able to monitor vendors more efficiently.”
Onboarding officer
Large enterprise company
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Frequently asked questions
Compliance officers, fraud analysts, risk managers, anti-money-laundering (AML) investigators, vendor management teams, security professionals, and anyone else responsible for ongoing risk oversight across customer, vendor, and third-party relationships.
Our solutions monitor sanctions and watchlist changes, PEP status updates, adverse media and negative news, criminal records, bankruptcies, liens, judgments, civil litigation, address and contact changes, death records, asset transfers, and other changes to public records.
Thomson Reuters Risk & Fraud Solutions aggregate public records, licensed proprietary data, global adverse media, and official sanctions and watchlists from authoritative sources, then links and presents that information with full source transparency for investigative and risk use cases. Our solutions are powered by live feed and regularly refreshed data connections, delivering the most current information available as soon as underlying sources are updated — often in real time.
Monitoring capacity scales to support your business needs portfolios from a few alerts to millions of subjects, with pricing and configuration options tailored to your organization's size and requirements.
Our solutions use advanced entity resolution and matching algorithms to distinguish between similarly named individuals and reduce false-positive alerts that waste investigative time.
Access to these tools is limited to authorized, vetted professionals.
Thomson Reuters is not a consumer reporting agency and none of its services or the data contained therein constitute a “consumer report” as such term is defined in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. sec. 1681 et seq. The data provided to you may not be used as a factor in consumer debt collection decisioning; establishing a consumer’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, government benefits, or housing; or for any other purpose authorized under the FCRA. By accessing one of our services, you agree not to use the service or data for any purpose authorized under the FCRA or in relation to taking an adverse action relating to a consumer application.