KYC & AML checks

Professional services

A more consistent, data-driven approach to customer due diligence can help support greater visibility into the companies and their ownership structures in your ecosystem.

Moody’s KYC solutions provide access to leading global data on individuals and companies, including corporate structures and beneficial ownership information.

KYC and AML data checks can be incorporated into your existing processes, alongside data from Moody’s and other partnership providers, to help support due diligence workflows.

Risk information can be connected with internal customer and prospect data and integrated into existing systems, helping to support more consistent KYC and AML activities. 





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Manage third-party and counterparty risk

Address evolving compliance requirements

Moody’s automated KYC solutions offer access to a broad range of data and potential risk indicators that can support due diligence and compliance-related activities.

  • Support greater visibility into customer and counterparty networks
  • Explore corporate structures and beneficial ownership information
  • Review potential conflicts of interest and trade-related considerations


Data-driven KYC workflows

Professional services customers we support

KYC solutions can be configured to align to different organizational requirements, helping to support KYC and AML processes across professional services firms.


Support KYC, AML, and internal compliance processes through structured due diligence workflows using Moody’s tools and data.

Access data relevant to customers and counterparties, including ownership, screening, and monitoring information, within a consistent framework.

Data can be incorporated into workflow processes to support the review of risk indicators, conflicts of interest, and corporate hierarchies.

Moody’s KYC solutions can support due diligence and risk assessment activities across compliance, audit, investigations, and advisory functions.

Access global datasets for ownership, sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media, which can be used to support onboarding, ongoing review, and monitoring processes.

Support KYC and AML-related processes across advisory, risk, and compliance-related investigative services.

Moody’s data sources for ownership, screening, and external risk indicators can be used to help inform due diligence and ongoing monitoring activities.

Additional datasets may support visibility into sustainability-, human rights-, and trade-related risk considerations.

Support due diligence processes associated with company formation and incorporation activities.

Access Moody’s global ownership, sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media data and documentation to help inform onboarding and review processes across jurisdictions.



Professional services
Professional services
Professional services


UK AML reform for professional services firms

UK AML reform continues to evolve, with proposed updates to the Money Laundering Regulations, changes to supervision, and new corporate transparency and fraud-related obligations.

Professional services firms in the UK, including legal, accountancy, and trust and company service providers, are likely to see increased regulatory focus on how financial crime risks are assessed, documented, and evidenced across client onboarding, ownership structures, and the handling of client funds.


This overview outlines some of the developments and highlights practical areas firms may wish to review as the regulatory landscape continues to take shape.





Category Leader in Chartis 2026 Adverse Media Monitoring Solutions Quadrant

Chartis named Moody’s a category leader in the 2026 Watchlist and Adverse Media Monitoring Solutions Quadrant, cementing our position at the forefront of innovation and performance in financial crime risk management.


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Additional resources

With public access to beneficial ownership registries becoming more restricted, organizations face challenges in obtaining ownership insights. 

The European Union’s (EU) anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) framework is arguably undergoing its most significant overhaul in more than a decade.

In today’s sanctions environment, the biggest threat to compliance could hide in the associations between counterparties rather than the names on a published list.



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