What are alerts in Business Radar?
Alerts in Business Radar notify you about specific events, news, or publications that are relevant to your portfolios. These alerts are sent via email, keeping you informed about important developments without needing to check your browser.
Alerts are based on predefined filters, which may include legal or financial issues such as antitrust cases, money laundering, or tax evasion. To use the alert function efficiently, it helps to regularly monitor whether the alerts you’re receiving are helpful and adjust them to ensure they inform you about exactly what you need to know.
Why are they important?
Alerts are crucial because they provide timely, relevant information, helping you stay on top of important developments related to your portfolios or specific buyers. Effectively setting up alerts allows you to filter through large volumes of data and focus on the insights that matter most, avoiding information overload. This can significantly impact business decisions by flagging critical legal or financial issues.
How do I change my alert settings?
To change an alert, return to the alert setup page.
Here, you can adjust settings such as the type of category, industries, or news you want to track. You can modify filters related to categories, sentiment, media type, and even countries or languages to further refine your alerts.
You can also exclude certain categories or companies if you would like to avoid seeing these in your alerts.
Example: You are interested in receiving alerts about all risk factors except for tax related news, you can exclude tax related news (Tax evasion and Tax Havens).
The final section allows you to change the frequency of the alert send-outs.
What do the filters mean?
Type | Choose between news articles or publications (signals from sources like courtrooms or regulators). |
Categories | Receive alerts for news that are classified under a certain category. |
Sentiment | Include only positive or negative news articles. |
Media type | Filter between smaller publications or larger mainstream media outlets. |
Countries | Only receive news from specific countries you choose. |
Languages | Only receive news in specific languages you choose. |
Search Query | Apply advanced filters, for example excluding articles from the New York times. |
What do the different categories entail?
If you would like to receive a full list of categories, send an email to [email protected] and we will share them with you.