# Business Radar Help Center > Business Radar is a company risk intelligence platform for compliance, KYC and third-party risk teams. It screens adverse media across more than 150 million sources a day in 100+ languages, using AI and named-entity recognition to match news and events to the right company or person, translate them, and score their risk relevance. Teams build portfolios of companies to monitor continuously, run point-in-time compliance checks against sanctions, PEP and watchlists, and collaborate on findings inside the app. The same data is available through a REST API with official Python, TypeScript and PHP clients. ## About Business Radar - [General FAQs Adverse Media Screening](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/general-faqs-adverse-media-screening): What is adverse media screening? Adverse media screening refers to the process of monitoring news and media sources to detect negative information about individuals or… - [Product Features](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/product-features): Comprehensive Data Coverage and Screening Business Radar offers screening against over 1,400 sanction lists from 180 countries, monitoring a curated index of 155 million global… - [Integration Possibilities with Business Radar](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/integration-possibilities-with-business-radar): Business Radar offers flexible integration options that enable organizations to embed real-time risk monitoring and compliance checks directly into their existing systems,… - [Single Sign-On (SSO) setup guide](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/single-sign-on-sso-setup-guide): Single Sign-On (SSO) lets your team log in to Business Radar with the same account they already use for their email and other work applications, without a separate Business Radar… ## Business Radar Features - [Changing your alert settings](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/changing-your-alert-settings): Your alerts are meant to stay useful over time. As your portfolios and priorities change, it helps to review whether the alerts you receive are still relevant, and adjust the… - [Batch upload company portfolio](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/batch-upload-company-portfolio): Purpose: Easily populate a portfolio with relevant companies by importing a list, so you can monitor numerous companies efficiently without adding each one manually. Step 1:… - [Understanding the Company Page in Business Radar](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/understanding-the-company-page-in-business-radar): 1. Accessing the Company Page To navigate to a company page: Use the search bar or browse the Companies tab to find the desired company. If the company name appears in grey, it is… ## Adverse Media - [Understanding Adverse Media: A Key Component in Risk Management](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/understanding-adverse-media-a-key-component-in-risk-management): What is Adverse Media? Adverse media refers to negative information found in public news sources about a person, organization, or event. This could include reports on criminal… - [The articles page](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/the-articles-page): Purpose of the Articles Page : The Articles Page helps you identify and monitor key risks, such as credit, reputational, or operational issues, for companies in your portfolio.… ## Compliance - [Compliance Screening in Business Radar](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/compliance-screening-in-business-radar): Business Radar’s compliance solution provides access to over a thousand sanction lists, covering politically exposed persons (PEPs), ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), ownership… - [How to Optimize Compliance Screening in Business Radar](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/how-to-optimize-compliance-screening-in-business-radar): Compliance screening is a key part of managing regulatory risks. Business Radar offers a structured approach to identifying and managing risks tied to sanctions, politically… - [Risk Scoring](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/risk-scoring): Overall Compliance Score The Overall Compliance Score reflects the highest level of risk identified during the compliance review. If any high-risk factor is detected, the overall… ## Collaboration in Business Radar - [Using Binders in Business Radar](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/using-binders-in-business-radar): Binders in Business Radar help users collect, monitor, and share news articles and compliance results, making it easy to track company developments or topics of interest over… ## Getting Started - [Setting up your first portfolio](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/setting-up-your-first-portfolio): A good first step when starting to use Business Radar is to set up your portfolio. The portfolio can then be used to access information about the same group of companies inside… - [Setting up alerts](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/setting-up-alerts): What are alerts in Business Radar? Alerts are Business Radar's continuous adverse media monitoring solution. You can choose how to set up your alerts so that you are informed… ## Frequently Asked Questions - [Compliance FAQs](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/compliance-faqs): Where does Business Radar retrieve its corporate linkage data? We connect to the Offshore Leaks database—covering more than 810,000 offshore companies, foundations, and trusts… - [Data Sourcing FAQs](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/data-sourcing-faqs): Does Business Radar have global coverage? Yes. Our database spans over 200 million companies worldwide, with adverse events captured from hundreds of thousands of sources in more… - [Adverse Media FAQs](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/adverse-media-faqs): How does Business Radar handle adverse media screening? Our system scans up to 150M news sources every day to look for trade names, which are assigned to each company in Business… ## Release Notes - [Release Notes – September 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-september-2026): What's new in Business Radar in September 2026. Enforcement data separated from sanctions Enforcement actions — such as regulatory fines, debarments and other official measures —… - [Release Notes – August 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-august-2026): What's new in Business Radar in August 2026. Users page redesign The users page, which you can find by clicking on your name and then settings, has been completely rewritten to… - [Release Notes – July 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-july-2026): What's new in Business Radar in July 2026. Compliance settings A new compliance settings element is now available, allowing you to configure your global compliance preferences… - [Release Notes – June 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-june-2026): What's new in Business Radar in June 2026. Webhooks Customers integrating Business Radar via API can now receive active push notifications through webhooks, rather than having to… - [Release Notes – May 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-may-2026): What's new in Business Radar in May 2026. UBO investigation email When a UBO investigation is completed, you now receive an email with a full breakdown of the results — including… - [Release Notes – April 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-april-2026): What's new in Business Radar in April 2026. Automatic escalation to Dun & Bradstreet When Business Radar detects that a company's corporate linkage or name may be out of date, the… - [Release Notes – March 2026](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-march-2026): What's new in Business Radar in March 2026. Notes on compliance results Users can now add notes to compliance results, which will be shown in the audit trail. Other Business Radar… - [Release Notes – Early 2026 (January–February)](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-early-2026-january-february): What's new in Business Radar in January and February 2026. PDF report scraping PDF reports are commonly used by stock brokers for market updates. These documents will be shown in… - [Release Notes – 2025](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-2025): What's new in Business Radar in 2025. Alert redesign We redesigned the alert function in Business Radar making the set-up and review flow more user-friendly. The system now also… - [Release Notes – 2024](https://help.businessradar.com/articles/release-notes-2024): What's new in Business Radar in 2024. PEP & Sanctions monitoring Added PEP and Sanctions monitoring to Business Radar, checking each company against major sanction lists on a… ## API guides - [Authenticate and make your first request](https://help.businessradar.com/api/guides/authenticate-and-make-your-first-request): Get a key, set the one header every endpoint needs, call the API, and read what comes back when something is wrong. - [Run a compliance check on a company](https://help.businessradar.com/api/guides/run-a-compliance-check): Resolve a company, start a screening, wait for it by polling or webhook, and read the sanctions, PEP and adverse-media hits it found. - [Register a portfolio with thousands of companies and receive the right news](https://help.businessradar.com/api/guides/monitor-a-portfolio-for-news): Create a portfolio, register companies in bulk without tripping rate limits, get notified as registrations land, and pull the material news for the whole portfolio. ## API reference - [API reference](https://help.businessradar.com/api): 39 endpoints across Webhooks, Companies, Articles, Portfolios, Compliance. ## SDKs - [Python SDK](https://help.businessradar.com/api/sdks): Official Python SDK for the Business Radar API. Easily integrate Business Radar data into your Python applications with simple, well-documented methods for authentication, querying, and retrieving company insights. - [TypeScript SDK](https://help.businessradar.com/api/sdks): Official Typescript SDK for the Business Radar API. Easily integrate Business Radar data into your front-end or backend Javascript / Typescript applications with simple, well-documented methods for authentication, querying, and retrieving company insights. - [PHP SDK](https://help.businessradar.com/api/sdks): Official PHP SDK for the Business Radar API. Easily integrate Business Radar data into your PHP applications with simple, well-documented methods for authentication, querying, and retrieving …