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


Moody’s Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solutions can help provide additional insight into your customers and wider business network. Our data and AI-enabled tools are designed to support your risk management, anti-financial crime, and compliance processes, helping your organization assess who it is working with.

 

Flexible data checks, analytics, and workflow orchestration solutions can support across your KYC and AML lifecycles. From global entity and individual data to risk intelligence, you can onboard and monitor risks across a third-party network more efficiently. 







Moody's for Compliance


Moody's Maxsight™


Regulatory demands, financial crime risks, and third‑party relationships continue to expand—often faster than internal systems can adapt. Moody’s for Compliance is a solution designed to support a connected, data-driven, risk‑based approach to help organizations better understand and operationalize change across their compliance processes.

Visit the Moody’s for Compliance page to learn more.






Key capabilities 

Shape a KYC solution around your business

Build a solution configured to your organization’s business goals and internal review processes. Moody’s solution can support: 

  • KYC and AML process automation
  • Digitizing internal risk management and compliance policies
  • Accessing individual, entity, and ownership and control datasets 
  • Integrating a series of digital data checks
  • Leveraging AI-enhanced screening and perpetual monitoring 
  • Collaborating via a case management system 

To find out more, please get in touch with the team at any time.





Take a risk-based approach with Moody’s KYC solutions

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Our KYC and AML solutions combine robust data on millions of individuals and entities worldwide, with automated workflows configured to your risk policies, supporting risk-based decision making across the KYC and AML lifecycle.


625M+

Number of entities

29M+

Curated risk profiles, including data on 6.5M+ PEPs 

200+

Countries and jurisdictions




How Moody's solutions can support your workflows

KYC and AML solutions to help customer due diligence; ID and entity verification; screening; and ongoing monitoring workflows.


Risk insight
Due diligence

Support due diligence with data on individuals, entities, ownership and control, and corporate structures

Perpetual monitoring
Screening and monitoring

Use curated risk profiles and monitoring capabilities to support screening and ongoing review.

Execute at scale
Workflow orchestration

Use configurable workflows to support onboarding, review, escalation, and ongoing monitoring processes.




What our customers say

"Moody’s screening is easy to use and delivers valuable insights that support our day-to-day work. We often receive results quickly, making a real difference for time-sensitive cases, and helping us work more efficiently."


Sarah Johnson, 
SCS Fulfilment Manager, Barclays





"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."




Risk and compliance solutions across sectors

Moody’s solutions can support organizations across different sectors in making more data-driven decisions.  




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




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 supporting risk management, and they reflect the contributions of all our employees.


Intelligence sharing - Category winner
Intelligence sharing - Category winner

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

Perpetual KYC – Category winner
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
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
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
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
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
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


Chartis KYC Data Solutions Category Leader award 2023

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


Chartis KYC KYC Solutions Category Leader award 2023

Moody’s was named a category leader for KYC solutions


Chartis KYC CLM Solutions Category Leader award 2023

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


AI Breakthrough award 2023 - best AI-based solution

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


AIFinTech100 list award 2023

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


Risk Technology Awards 2023 Winner - Anti-fraud product of the year

Recognition for our solutions designed to fight fraud


Buy-side technology awards winner 2022

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


Regulation Asia awards for excellence 2022

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


AI Breakthrough Award 2022

Best AI-based solution for fraud prevention

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


Chartis - Category Leader, Name Screening Solutions Award 2022
Category leader for name screening solutions

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


Data Management Insight Awards 2021

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


RegTech Insight Awards 2021 - Europe

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



RegTech Insight Awards 2021 - USA
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


This KYC 101 outlines why KYC and AML checks for insurance matter, how requirements typically apply in practice, and some of the considerations shaping insurance compliance today.



The CDD process helps banks understand and manage their entire client risk base and prevent financial crimes like money laundering and fraud.



Know Your Customer (KYC) has moved from a back‑office compliance task to a front‑line requirement for asset managers, buy‑side firms, and structured finance specialists.


Client onboarding means going through a step-by-step process to understand new customers, so you know who you are doing business with and the risks of doing business with them.




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