Moody's Analytics

Moody’s Analytics helps capital markets and risk management professionals worldwide respond to an evolving marketplace with confidence. The company offers unique tools and best practices for measuring and managing risk through expertise and experience in credit analysis, economic research and financial risk management. By providing leading-edge software, advisory services, and research, including the proprietary analysis of Moody’s Investors Service, Moody’s Analytics integrates and customizes its offerings to address specific business challenges. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $3.5 billion in 2015, employs approximately 10,900 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 36 countries. Further information is available at moodysanalytics.com.

 

Available products

GRID

Leading screening & risk monitoring data

GRID is the world's most comprehensive risk database of PEPs, sanctions, adverse media, and watchlists. Risk data is curated itno detailed profiles by individual or organization, so you can understand associated, risk-relevant data in structured and detailed reports to make decisions with confidence.

Moody's KYC website: http://moodys.com/kyc

GRID product info: https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/kyc/products/grid.html

CreditEdge®

Potential Users: Risk Management, Asset Management, Credit Analysts, Bond Traders, Underwriters

The CreditEdge® model enables firms to manage the credit risk of a portfolio of listed firms, bonds, and sovereigns globally combining the industry’s most accurate probability of default model with cutting-edge analytics. FinTech Sandbox residents can use the CreditEdge model to test credit default risk and value global debt instruments.

Features:

  • Assess the risk that a domestic or International borrower will default
  • Validate internal rating models that are used to ‘score’ counterparties by using EDF
  • Complement fundamental credit research with validation in assessing credit quality of investments (bonds, etc.)

Moody’s Market Implied Ratings (MIR®)

Potential Users: Asset Managers, Credit Analysts, Risk Managers, Bond Traders, Underwriters
 
Moody's MIR platform translates prices from the CDS, bond, loan and equity markets into standard Moody's ratings language. Sandbox startups will have access to the MIR platform's entire database or a subset of the data for custom analysis via Moody's Bulk Data Downloads feature.
 
Features:
  • Isolate a Company's Individual Risk from General Market Trends with full integration of Moodys.com features
  • Detect Early Warnings of Defaults and Downgrades from Market Information
  • Set up customized Alerts to help monitor risk by informing you of changes in MIR Levels for the issuers in your MDC Portfolios 
  •  Anticipate Ratings changes by analyzing historical frequencies of Moody's ratings changes over a specified time period

Ratings Delivery Service

Potential Users: Corporates, Government Entities, Asset Managers

Moody’s Ratings Delivery Service (RDS) covers all current Moody's Investors Service issuer and issuer-related ratings. RDS offers Sandbox residents the convenience, speed, and accuracy of a direct ratings feed to their databases, and matching with industry standard identifiers.

Features:

  • Convenience and speed of a direct feed of Moody's Investors Service credit ratings to your databases.
  • Simple matching with industry-standard identifiers, such as CUSIPs, ISINs, Financial Information Global Identifiers, and Legal Entity Identifiers.
  • Compatible format easily integrates into your company’s systems

Macroeconomic Data

Potential Users: Risk Management, Asset Management, Economists

The Data Buffet® platform enables clients to view, manipulate and automate delivery of Moody’s data in a variety of formats. The Data Buffet® platform seamlessly integrates with Microsoft® Office to automatically update and deliver the information you want, when you want it.

Features:

  • Create presentation-ready charts and maps directly from the web and into your Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents.
  • Develop thematic maps of economic and financial data for geographies including European countries and subdivisions, U.S. states, metropolitan areas, counties, ZIP codes, and other geographic areas around the globe.
  • Use our MS Office add-ins to insert scalable data, charts and maps into your Office document and refresh data in a single click.

Moody's Financial Metrics

Potential Users: Financial Analysts, Credit Analysts, Corporate Finance, Data Scientists, Asset Management

Moody’s Financial Metrics allows you to add depth to your credit analysis with scorecards and models for non-financial corporate, project finance, and infrastructure issuers rated by our sister company Moody's Investors Service.

Features:

  • Estimate quantitative ratings for both rated and unrated entities to serve as a “second opinion” to supplement your own credit assessment process. 
  • Moody’s Financial Metrics projection tool allows users to generate estimated quantitative ratings for a single bank and its peers by creating scenarios using scorecards with pre-populated financial data from Moody's Investors Service.
  • Moody’s Financial Metrics projection tool allows you to view historical financials and ratios and model forward-looking projections.
  • Drill-down into an issuer’s financial health using financial statement data adjusted by Moody’s analysts to reflect the underlying economics of the entity
  • Measure financial performance with over 80 ratios on every company.

Moody's Bank Analytics

Bank Analytics allows you to add depth to your credit analyses with scorecards and models for global banks rated by Moody's Investors Service.

Potential Users: Financial Analysts, Credit Analysts, Corporate Finance, Data Scientists, Asset Management

Features:

  • Allows users to generate estimated quantitative ratings for a single bank and its peers by creating scenarios using pre-populated scorecard data from Moody's Investors Service.
  • Estimated ratings serve as a “second opinion” to supplement your own credit assessment process.
  • Interactive scorecards allow users to analyze bank financial data as set out in the Moody's Investors Service publicly available credit rating methodologies.

NewsEdge Feed

Whether for business intelligence, financial investments, or sharing real-time news and historical content with your company or clients, our NewsEdge Feed solution delivers one of the broadest collections of licensed and web-sourced content in the industry. Our taxonomy tags both content and source in exquisite detail for precise filtering and search, and we deliver in a range of formats to feed your applications or machine learning/artificial intelligence models. 

The NewsEdge Feed solution draws on over 18,000 sources from around the world, delivering breaking news, and content on finance, government, business, technology, and culture. It includes licensed content from press releases, major international magazines, local news sites, and web sourced content from blogs to Twitter. We constantly add to and refine our list of sources to get you the news you need, and deliver it in full text, in over 70 languages.

Orbis

Orbis is the world’s most powerful comparable data resource on private companies. Use Orbis to find, analyze and compare companies worldwide, for better decision-making and increased efficiency. We capture, treat and standardize data from a wide range of sources to provide you with value-added company information.

With Orbis you get:

  • information on companies in all countries
  • public and private company data – including banks and insurance companies
  • extensive corporate ownership structures
  • data on individuals associated with companies
  • marine vessels data

The information provided by Orbis comes from a wealth of sources, yet is instantly comparable and searchable Orbis contains information on companies in all countries, captured from a diverse range of sources, and treated to add value.