What is the "Relevance" in Negative News cases / stories?

Engage Negative News items and Assure Negative News cases with a source from Thomson Reuters Adverse Media will display a "Relevance". This indicates the "relevance" score assigned by Thomson Reuters. 

CLEAR Adverse Media scores every source returned in results with a numeric value of 0.00-100.00 points, with 100.00 points being the highest possible score. The Adverse Media Relevancy Score is calculated by calculating the frequency of derogatory terms and phrases along with the proximity to the search term in the result.

For Adverse Media (articles), the relevance score is affected by how close in proximity the “search name” was to “adverse terms” aka terms that could be related to criminal or any adverse activities. Such terms can include “lawsuit”, “crime”, “cannabis”; we do not have a complete list at this time. Only results scoring 70 or above (by default) will be presented as Adverse Media Negative News cases; clients may request this score to be updated to increase or decrease the results potentially returned. This threshold may be set as low as 60, the minimum allowed by Thomson Reuters. 

For the list types (Sanction, PEP, SOE) the score is mainly based on how much the searched name matches the name of the entity (legal name or AKAs) associated with the list result. Only results scoring 90 or above (by default) will be presented as Negative News cases. Clients may request this score to be updated to increase or decrease the results potentially returned. This threshold may be set as  low as 75, the minimum allowed by Thomson Reuters.

Note that the relevance score assigned to each result (story) is set by Thomson Reuters (not Shield).