Onboarding customers or suppliers—Moody's Know Your Business (KYB) solutions


What is KYB? Know Your Business (KYB) is the process associated with screening, onboarding, and risk monitoring corporate customers, partners, and suppliers.

Moody’s robust, flexible KYB solutions can help you automate corporate due diligence processes. Digitally transform KYB data checks and entity verification processes and assess risk across your third party network.

Our digital KYB workflow tools, coupled with award-winning entity data, curated risk profiles, and smart screening with AI support you to decode risk and unlock opportunity.

Please get in touch with the team to find out more about our digital solutions for KYB processes.






Automated business onboarding

4 ways Moody’s supports KYB processes


Digitally transform KYB processes across jurisdictions, products, and third parties. Moody’s solutions are used to create automated workflows aligned with your risk policies and operational requirements. Accelerate manual reviews and remediation tasks by integrating automated checks powered by Moody’s datasets and other leading data sources.

Access the world’s most comprehensive data on private companies—covering more than 580+ million entities globally, including 40 million with detailed financials. Moody’s solutions can help illuminate complex ownership structures and company hierarchies, making it easier to understand corporate networks and assess risk.

Leverage Moody’s global risk database, which includes adverse media, sanctions, watchlists, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and more. Data is curated into detailed profiles for individuals and entities. Customize filters by risk type, stage, and age to align with your risk appetite, and benefit from AI-enabled smart screening that helps reduce false positives and improve efficiency.

Automate KYB and corporate due diligence processes integrating access to dynamic UBO and entity verification data. Moody’s connects to commercial registries, tax offices, and other authoritative sources worldwide, retrieving data directly from the primary source. Securely access company filings, register reports, annual accounts, and beneficial ownership information.




What our customers say about Moody’s KYB solutions




“The Moody’s team provided us with a systematic approach to onboarding our clients. By combining multiple manual processes into one workflow, we have created an efficient way to bring new clients onboard. It allows us to automate workflows and with ongoing monitoring we are confident it is the robust fraud prevention and compliance tool we have been searching for.”

- Longhorn Investments
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More KYB resources from Moody’s

Business entity verification is the process of confirming the legitimacy and identity of a corporate entity such as a company, a partnership, or a sole proprietorship. However, looking for risks associated with entities in a business network is an ongoing part of compliance and risk management.

The European Council has introduced new sanctions-related regulation and issued a new directive focused on enhancing transparency regarding the flow of funds related to Russian-owned entities out of the EU.

As the UK's official public register of companies and overseas entities, Companies House, rolls out its new identity verification requirements to align with the implementation of the UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA), we take a look at some of the details of the changes. 




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KYB - part of the big picture

Moody’s can support your organization with a range of compliance and third-party risk management solutions.

We offer workflow tools, data, and analytics to help you create efficiencies across your risk management and compliance programs. Please get in touch to find out more.






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