Make confident decisions about the suppliers, vendors, and partners you work with. Take a data-driven, risk-based approach to third-party risk management (TPRM) to onboard and monitor your counterparty network more effectively.
Make confident decisions about the suppliers, vendors, and partners you work with. Take a data-driven, risk-based approach to third-party risk management (TPRM) to onboard and monitor your counterparty network more effectively.
Moody’s brings together deep entity intelligence, risk signals and analytical context in a way that reflects how third party risk is assessed across financial, compliance and operational dimensions.
Rather than treating third party risk as a standalone workflow, Moody’s capability is built around shared entity resolution and consistent data foundations that can be applied across sanctions, adverse media, ownership, sustainability, cyber and financial risks.
Moody's unified risk platform can help you assess key risks across your third-party network, including customers, suppliers, and even your suppliers’ suppliers.
From financial health and cyber risk to beneficial ownership and shell company indicators, gain a clearer view of who you’re doing business with. Unify your third party risk management (TPRM) program and make confident, data-driven decisions across your organization.
Develop an approach to third-party risk management that’s flexible and tailored to your organization’s needs.
Third‑party risk management can sometimes be described as a set of individual tasks. From a programmatic perspective, it can be viewed as a continuous lifecycle.
TPRM programs are often built around having a single, consistent way to identify third parties, a common set of risk categories, and clear definitions of what different types of risk mean.
At this stage, organizations might describe information about a third party, who owns or controls them, where they operate, and what external risk signals apply to create a shared understanding of risk across suppliers, vendors, and partners.
Implementation may be reflected in repeatable workflows that connect onboarding, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring activities.
These workflows can translate policy intent into day-to-day execution by automating risk checks, documentation, and escalation pathways into processes, so multiple teams can work from a shared view of third party risk without keeping responsibility to a single function.
As third party ecosystems expand and risk exposure changes, TPRM programs are commonly revisited to assess coverage, consistency, and visibility.
Program evolution might look at how risk information remains current, comparable across regions, and aligned with internal priorities and external expectations.
Viewed as a lifecycle, TPRM becomes an ongoing organizational capability linking design, execution, and review through shared data, integrated risk perspectives, and coordinated workflows. Get in touch to talk about how we can support your continuous TPRM program.
A model that helps unify people, processes, and technology can create greater visibility over where risks lie in a third-party network.
Here are 5 factors to think about in relation to third-party risk management across your network.
The Infinite Game is a Moody’s short documentary series that explores the complex world of financial crime, its hidden costs, and the measures taken to thwart it.
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European Union (EU) rules on forced labor are tightening, with a new product ban and mandatory due diligence regime that looks set to transform expectations on how companies manage human rights-related risks in their supply chains.
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On February 27, 2025, Chartis Research published its second Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC50) ranking and report. The FCC50 report evaluated nearly 300 vendors across core financial crime disciplines and identified 50 leaders in financial crime and compliance.
2024 has seen a lot of focus on one of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s consultation processes in relation to proposed revisions of its Recommendation 16, commonly known as the "Travel Rule."
Know Your Business or KYB due diligence is essential when onboarding and monitoring corporate customers and suppliers as part of compliance and risk management.
Shell companies with no significant assets or business operations can be used for both legitimate and illegitimate purposes. Although shell companies are not illegal, financial criminals typically make use of them to disguise ultimate beneficial ownership.
Politically Exposed Persons or PEPs can be tied to various areas of financial risk—such as fraud, corruption, money laundering—making it important to understand if someone is a PEP before they are onboarded to your customer or supplier network.
Choon Hong Chua, Head of Financial Crime Practice Group for APAC and the Middle East, was recently interviewed by Singapore radio station MONEY FM 89.3. In this interview, he unpacks the wider impact of the recent money laundering case making headlines in Singapore.
New research released by Moody's has highlighted low awareness around the world about Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and the risks they can be connected to.
Please get in touch to discuss your approach to third-party risk management or supplier due diligence – we would love to talk to you.