KYC solutions from Moody's for compliance and third-party risk management

Moody’s delivers end-to-end Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solutions to help you understand your customers and wider business network. Our tools are designed to support your risk management and compliance processes—giving you the insights needed to make informed decisions about who you work with.

Our flexible data checks, analytics, and workflow orchestration solutions can support each area of KYC and AML. From global entity and individual data to risk intelligence, you can onboard and monitor risks across a third-party network efficiently and effectively.

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A new platform for unified risk management

Moody’s Maxsight™

Maxsight™ is a single platform for unified risk management. It brings together thousands of data points to support your organization to take a holistic view of risks and then see them from different perspectives.

Shared risk intelligence serving different organizational functions from digital onboarding to sanctions compliance to third-party risk management to supply chain risk management and beyond.

Key features

Create the best KYC solution for your business

Tailor a KYC solution around your business and its regulatory requirements. Manage compliance and third-party risks. Streamline KYC activities and deliver the best customer experiences possible. Manage financial crime risks and compliance processes efficiently and effectively.

Automate KYC & AML verification processes
Digitally transform risk management and compliance policies
Access individual, entity, and ownership and control datasets
Integrate a series of digital data checks
Leverage AI-led screening and perpetual monitoring
Collaborate via a full case management system
Communicate directly with customers
Collect documentation through the platform

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KYC solutions based on your organization’s needs

Who am I doing business with?

What are the risks of doing business with them?

How can I address these risks at scale?

Stay ahead of risk with Moody’s KYC solutions

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Our KYC and AML solutions combine high-quality data on millions of individuals and entities worldwide. With automated workflows tailored to your risk policies and appetite, integrate different data checks into your onboarding or monitoring processes.

Make smarter, risk-based decisions using data-driven insights. From initial customer onboarding to continuous risk monitoring, Moody’s supports your full KYC lifecycle.

625M+

Number of entities

29M+

Curated risk profiles, including data on 6.5M+ PEPs

200+

Countries and jurisdictions

High-quality, automated risk management solutions

Reduce manual KYC effort by digitally transforming activities. Map where risks lie across your business network and understand when those risk change.

Curate risk profiles to verify individuals and entities using leading workflow automation.

Integrate robust datasets to help you understand complex corporate structures and risks associated with individuals or entities.

Powerful analytics

Elevate compliance and team performance with smart analytics and practical, explainable AI.

Data & intelligence

Access a world-class depth of data coverage on individuals, entities, ownership and control, and corporate structures.

Workflow orchestration

Configurable, automated, end-to-end KYC journeys for digital onboarding and continuous monitoring.

Partner & thought leader

Moody’s makes skilled, in-house professionals and practice leads available to support you and your teams’ success.

How Moody's offers the KYC software you need

Our KYC software gives you the tools for customer due diligence; ID verification; entity verification; risk assessment; intelligent screening; ongoing monitoring, and more.

Risk insights

Integrate broad, deep, rich data to make better risk-based decisions about who you work with.

Perpetual monitoring

Create a live, 360-degree picture of risk for the individuals and entities you work with leveraging a perpetual KYC approach.

Operate at scale

Manage onboarding and risk monitoring every day of the year efficiently and effectively. When your business scales, your configuration can scale with you.

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Five star reviews

Customer testimonials

“As we serve our customers and ensure their cash is protected, Passfort’s solution will help us deliver seamless onboarding for business clients, while ensuring we are fully compliant with all the relevant regulations. Customers need to know they can manage their money safely with us. With automated onboarding and KYB, our technical team will now be able to concentrate their efforts on continuing to innovate so we best serve our customers.”

Duncan Cockburn

Chief Executive, OneBanx

"Access to primary source registers via a single sign-on platform, huge country coverage, a Concierge and Translation Service… I don’t know any other company who can offer that. This puts us at a real competitive advantage."

Valerie Croy-Markones

Head of Corporate Customers, Raiffeisen Bank International AG

Offering risk and compliance solutions in your sector

Moody’s offers risk and compliance solutions to support organizations across different sectors. Automate onboarding, manage third-party risk, conduct investigations, and meet global anti-financial crime regulations with confidence.

Banking

Government

Corporates

Professional services

Insurance

Fintech

Asset management

If you would like to discuss a solution for your organization, please get in touch with the team any time.

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Worldwide recognition

Awards

At Moody’s, we’re proud of the recognition we have received from around the world. Spanning all areas of our business, these awards highlight the important role we play in risk management, and they reflect the contributions of all our employees.

Intelligence sharing - Category winner

Recognized for intelligence‑sharing capabilities that support collaborative, context‑driven approaches to financial crime risk.

Financial Crime: Data – Category winner

This recognition underscores Moody’s continued excellence and innovation in delivering data-driven solutions for financial crime risk management

KYC - Category winner

Moody’s is excited to have won in the Chartis FCC50 category for KYC reflecting our market-leading data, analytics, and solutions in this area

Holistic Risk Platform – New category win

Moody’s win in this new category recognizes our solution that integrates diverse datasets to create a holistic, unified view of risk

Master Data Management – Category winner

Moody's win in this new category of MDM recognizes our market-leading data, that helps our customers decode risk and unlock opportunity in an era of exponential risk.

Shell Company Detection – Category winner

For a second year, Moody’s was recognized for its industry-leading shell company detection capabilities

Perpetual KYC – Category winner

For a second year, the Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance50 ranking and report named Moody's as category winner for perpetual KYC

Most Innovative Sanctions and PEPs Data Solution

Recognition of our contribution to enhancing understanding of sanctions-related risks and promoting regulatory compliance

Category winner for perpetual KYC

The Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance50 ranking and report names Moody's as the category winner for perpetual KYC

Category winner for shell company detection

Recognition for Moody's industry-leading shell company detection capabilities

RiskTech100 2024

Moody’s continues to lead the way, earning the number one overall ranking in the Chartis RiskTech100® 2024 annual report for the second consecutive year

Leader for Financial Crime Data

The Chartis RiskTech100® 2024 annual report names Moody’s as the category winner for Financial Crime – Data

Category leader for KYC data solutions

Moody’s was positioned as category leader with the most complete offering for KYC data solutions

Category leader for KYC solutions

Moody’s was named a category leader for KYC solutions

Category leader for CLM solutions for wealth management

Moody’s was positioned as a category leader for CLM solutions for wealth management

Category Leader for FRAML Solutions

Recognition of Moody’s as a leader in the fraud and anti-money laundering (FRAML) solutions category

Best AI-based solution for fraud prevention

Recognition for AI Review, our intelligent screening, and customer onboarding solution

Featured on the AIFinTech100 list

Named one of the world’s most innovative companies developing AI technologies in financial services

Anti-fraud product of the year

Recognition for our solutions designed to fight fraud

Best buy-side compliance product - KYC

Recognition for our market-leading and innovative solutions helping buy-side firms address their compliance needs

Best solution in KYB & entity resolution

Recognition for our KYB data obtained from live connections to corporate registers, financial authorities, and tax offices, globally

Best AI-based solution for fraud prevention

Recognition for AI Review, our intelligent screening, and customer onboarding solution

Category leader for KYC/AML data solutions

Moody’s Analytics was positioned as category leader with the most complete offering for KYC and AML data solutions

Category leader for name screening solutions

Moody's Analytics was named category leader with the most market potential for sanctions solutions: name screening

Best entity data solution

We are a 4x winner of this award for our strong entity data solution

Best data solutions for KYC

A repeat win for our data that helps clients identify risk, improve compliance processes, and prevent financial crime

Best vendor solution for sanctions & PEPs

Earned for our solutions targeted at managing and meeting specific PEPs and sanctions data requirements

More resources on KYC and AML

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KYC solutions from Moody's for compliance and third-party risk management

A new platform for unified risk management

Moody’s Maxsight™

Key features

Create the best KYC solution for your business

KYC solutions based on your organization’s needs

Stay ahead of risk with Moody’s KYC solutions

625M+

29M+

200+

High-quality, automated risk management solutions

Powerful analytics

Data & intelligence

Workflow orchestration

Partner & thought leader

How Moody's offers the KYC software you need

Risk insights

Perpetual monitoring

Operate at scale

Five star reviews

Customer testimonials

Duncan Cockburn

Valerie Croy-Markones

Offering risk and compliance solutions in your sector

Worldwide recognition

Awards

Intelligence sharing - Category winner

Financial Crime: Data – Category winner

KYC - Category winner

Holistic Risk Platform – New category win

Master Data Management – Category winner

Shell Company Detection – Category winner

Perpetual KYC – Category winner

View our previous awards & accolades

Best AI-based solution for fraud prevention

Category leader for name screening solutions

Best vendor solution for sanctions & PEPs

More resources on KYC and AML

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